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Nora Cecil was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras.
Born
Thursday, 26 September 1878
Died
Tuesday, 01 May 1951
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Louisa Ames | 1947 |
| The Sea of Grass | Mrs. Ryan - Nurse | 1947 |
| No Leave, No Love | Indignant Onlooker at Hotel Desk | 1946 |
| Big Town | Miss Lovelace | 1946 |
| The Missing Lady | Miss Millie | 1946 |
| Two Sisters from Boston | Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest | 1946 |
| Johnny Comes Flying Home | Bank Customer | 1946 |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Woman in Window | 1946 |
| Lady on a Train | Woman with Umbrella and Radio | 1945 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| The Big Parade of Comedy | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' / (archive footage) | 1964 |
| Mourning Becomes Electra | Louisa Ames | 1947 |
| The Sea of Grass | Mrs. Ryan - Nurse | 1947 |
| No Leave, No Love | Indignant Onlooker at Hotel Desk | 1946 |
| Big Town | Miss Lovelace | 1946 |
| The Missing Lady | Miss Millie | 1946 |
| Two Sisters from Boston | Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest | 1946 |
| Johnny Comes Flying Home | Bank Customer | 1946 |
| The Kid from Brooklyn | Woman in Window | 1946 |
| Lady on a Train | Woman with Umbrella and Radio | 1945 |
| Molly and Me | Clerk at Domestic Service Agency | 1945 |
| Together Again | Woman at Recital | 1944 |
| The Thin Man Goes Home | Miss Peavy | 1944 |
| Hail the Conquering Hero | Train Ticket Clerk | 1944 |
| The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Head Nurse | 1943 |
| The Unknown Guest | Martha Williams | 1943 |
| Two Weeks to Live | Grandma Masters | 1943 |
| Calaboose | Irate Woman in Car | 1943 |
| I Married a Witch | Harriet Wooley | 1942 |
| The Daring Young Man | Matron | 1942 |
| Tish | Spinster | 1942 |
| Apache Trail | Stagecoach Passenger | 1942 |
| The Wife Takes a Flyer | Miss Updike | 1942 |
| Jail House Blues | Matron | 1942 |
| Call Out the Marines | Elderly Lady with Glasses | 1942 |
| Three Girls About Town | Casket Customer | 1941 |
| It Started with Eve | Mrs. Fields - Hotel Guest | 1941 |
| Unexpected Uncle | Muriel | 1941 |
| A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Charwoman | 1941 |
| The Bank Dick | Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary | 1940 |
| Little Men | Head of Orphanage | 1940 |
| Hit Parade of 1941 | Trader | 1940 |
| Young People | Righteous Old Lady | 1940 |
| Lucky Partners | Women's Club President | 1940 |
| Those Were the Days! | Mrs. Moffett | 1940 |
| Queen of the Mob | Mission Worker | 1940 |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Miss Blecker | 1940 |
| The Captain Is a Lady | Lady Buying Groceries | 1940 |
| What a Life | Miss Eggleston | 1939 |
| Some Like It Hot | Mrs. Beckett | 1939 |
| Union Pacific | Snoring Woman on Train | 1939 |
| The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Miss Jenkins | 1939 |
| Stagecoach | Boone's Landlady | 1939 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mrs. Shackleford | 1939 |
| St. Louis Blues | Storekeeper | 1939 |
| King of Alcatraz | Nora Kane | 1938 |
| Mr. Boggs Steps Out | Widow Peddie | 1938 |
| No Time to Marry | Rusty's Aunt | 1938 |
| International Settlement | English Woman | 1938 |
| The Jones Family in Borrowing Trouble | Dressmaker | 1937 |
| Nothing Sacred | Schoolteacher | 1937 |
| Blossoms on Broadway | Leader of Committee | 1937 |
| Partners in Crime | Housekeeper | 1937 |
| She Asked for It | Elderly lady | 1937 |
| Easy Living | Miss Swerf | 1937 |
| Night of Mystery | Hemming | 1937 |
| Three Smart Boys | Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent | 1937 |
| Night Must Fall | Woman in Tour | 1937 |
| Champagne Waltz | Train Passenger | 1937 |
| The Mighty Treve | Old Maid at Dog Show | 1937 |
| College Holiday | Miss Elkins | 1936 |
| Career Woman | Witness--New York | 1936 |
| Let's Make a Million | 1936 | |
| Laughing at Trouble | Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman | 1936 |
| Under Your Spell | School Teacher | 1936 |
| The Big Broadcast of 1937 | Home Economics Woman | 1936 |
| Girl of the Ozarks | Miss Trent | 1936 |
| Little Miss Nobody | Mrs. Robinson | 1936 |
| Fury | Albert's Mother | 1936 |
| Dancing Pirate | Landlady | 1936 |
| Collegiate | Miss Curtiss | 1936 |
| Two in the Dark | Mrs. Potter, Landlady / Mrs. Potter - Landlady | 1936 |
| Grand Exit | Miss Appleby, Third Secretary | 1935 |
| Way Down East | Townswoman at Party | 1935 |
| Slightly Static | Beauty Products Announcer | 1935 |
| Vagabond Lady | Miss Perkins - Spear Office Worker | 1935 |
| Gold Diggers of 1935 | Housekeeper | 1935 |
| Car 99 | Granny Adams | 1935 |
| Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Ship's Matron | 1935 |
| The Merry Widow | Animal Woman | 1934 |
| 6 Day Bike Rider | Choir Leader | 1934 |
| Opened by Mistake | Head Nurse | 1934 |
| Chained | Edith - a Shipboard Spinster | 1934 |
| Pursued | Tourist Welfare Worker | 1934 |
| One-Horse Farmers | Subway Passenger | 1934 |
| Bachelor Bait | Mrs. Trutmanner - President of the Window Box Horticulturists | 1934 |
| The Old Fashioned Way | Mrs. Wendelschaffer | 1934 |
| Hollywood Party | Scientific Pedant | 1934 |
| Upperworld | Stream's Housekeeper | 1934 |
| Laughing Boy | Schoolteacher / Teacher | 1934 |
| Glamour | Nurse | 1934 |
| You're Telling Me! | Mrs. Price | 1934 |
| Once to Every Woman | Elizabeth Baxter - Jane's Sister | 1934 |
| Mixed Nuts | Mrs. Twitchett | 1934 |
| Search for Beauty | Miss Pettigrew | 1934 |
| Going Hollywood | Briarcroft's Teacher | 1933 |
| Design for Living | Tom's Secretary | 1933 |
| Meet the Baron | Professor Winterbottom | 1933 |
| Stage Mother | Miss Gilford - Kitty's Music Store Boss / Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss | 1933 |
| Doctor Bull | Aunt Emily Banning | 1933 |
| Hold Your Man | Miss Campbell | 1933 |
| Melody Cruise | First Gossip | 1933 |
| Peg o' My Heart | Smythe (maid) | 1933 |
| The Little Giant | Ahern's Maid | 1933 |
| Nature in the Wrong | Muriel's mother | 1933 |
| The White Sister | Preaching Nun at Meal | 1933 |
| Fast Workers | Tall Window-Shopper / Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) | 1933 |
| Asleep in the Feet | Female Police Officer | 1933 |
| King of the Jungle | Spinster in Park | 1933 |
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Missionary | 1932 |
| That's My Boy | Concerned Mother / Athens Townswoman | 1932 |
| Hot Saturday | Gossip on Telephone / Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) | 1932 |
| Girl Grief | Miss Tuttle, Principal | 1932 |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Welfare Association Officer | 1932 |
| Week Ends Only | Mrs. Watson, Landlady | 1932 |
| Amateur Daddy | Saleslady | 1932 |
| Young Bride | Landlady | 1932 |
| Big Dame Hunting | 1932 | |
| Stepping Sisters | Prosperity | 1932 |
| Forbidden | Chambermaid on Phone | 1932 |
| Arrowsmith | Nurse | 1931 |
| A Melon-Drama | 1931 | |
| The Ruling Voice | Malcom's Nurse | 1931 |
| The Sin of Madelon Claudet | Nasty Prison Nun | 1931 |
| Caught Plastered | Miss Loring | 1931 |
| Street Scene | Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker / Alice Simpson | 1931 |
| Everything's Rosie | Hotel Proprietress | 1931 |
| Misbehaving Ladies | Minor Role | 1931 |
| East Lynne | Charity Bazaar Committee | 1931 |
| Millie | Helen and Angie's Landlady | 1931 |
| Only Saps Work | Mrs. Partridge | 1930 |
| Hell's Angels | Helen's Maid | 1930 |
| Outward Bound | Third Gossip | 1930 |
| Little Accident | Dr. Zernecke | 1930 |
| The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu | Curious Passerby at Fu's Funeral | 1930 |
| Seven Days Leave | Amelia Twymley | 1930 |
| Seven Footprints to Satan | Old Witch | 1929 |
| The Cavalier | Lucia's Aunt | 1928 |
| Driftwood | Mrs. Prouty | 1928 |
| The Baby Cyclone | Mrs. Crandall | 1928 |
| The Big City | Landlady | 1928 |
| A Trick of Hearts | The Mayor | 1928 |
| The Devil Dancer | Julia | 1927 |
| Too Many Crooks | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1927 |
| Setúbal | Mrs. Lodge | 1927 |
| The Demi-Bride | School Teacher | 1927 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Townswoman | 1927 |
| The Silent Rider | Mrs. Randall | 1927 |
| The Passionate Quest | Mrs.Flint | 1926 |
| Midnight Faces | Mrs. Hart | 1926 |
| Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham | 1926 |
| Lightnin' | Passerby in Buggy | 1925 |
| The Deadwood Coach | Matilda Shields - in play | 1924 |
| Darwin Was Right | Aunt Priscilla | 1924 |
| That French Lady | Undetermined Secondary Role | 1924 |
| Manslaughter | Lydia's Chaperone | 1922 |
| Timothy's Quest | Townswoman | 1922 |
| Red Foam | Undetermined Role | 1920 |
| Behind the Door | Townswoman | 1919 |
| Miss Crusoe | Miss Meeker | 1919 |
| The Love Net | Miss Prudence Tilly | 1918 |
| Appearance of Evil | Miss Spurgeon | 1918 |
| By Hook or Crook | Aunt Marie | 1918 |
| The Power and the Glory | Mandy Meacham | 1918 |
| Prunella | Privacy | 1918 |
| American Buds | Emily | 1918 |
| The Little Duchess | Orphanage Matron | 1917 |
| The Poor Little Rich Girl | One of Gwendolyn's Teachers | 1917 |
| Tillie Wakes Up | Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken | 1917 |
| The Social Secretary | Spinster | 1916 |
| The Model Husband | Mrs. Gossip / Mrs Gossip | 1916 |
| The Arrival of Perpetua | Abigail Majendrie | 1915 |
| Alias Jimmy Valentine | Nurse | 1915 |
