

Cast & creator
Best known for Stagecoach, I Married a Witch, The Sea of Grass
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nora Cecil (September 20, 1878 – May 1, 1951) was a British-American character actress whose 30-year career spanned both the silent and sound film eras. Cecil's career began on the stage, where she appeared in a single Broadway production, The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, which ran for more than 240 performances at the Broadway Theatre in 1901-02. (A 1930 newspaper article says that Cecil "made her debut, three decades ago, on the London stage.") Cecil appeared in well over 100 feature films and film shorts. In 1915, she moved from the stage into films, her first appearance being in a starring role in The Arrival of Perpetua, directed by Émile Chautard. She often played "thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law" and "welfare workers, landladies, schoolmistresses and maiden aunts". One of the most significant roles was in the W.C. Fields vehicle, The Old Fashioned Way in 1934. Some of the other notable films in which Cecil appeared include: Ernst Lubitsch's historical romance, The Merry Widow, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald; the 1939 version of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney; the John Ford classic, Stagecoach, with John Wayne. Her final acting performance was in a featured role in Mourning Becomes Electra in 1947, starring Rosalind Russell.
Also known as: Norah Cecile, Nora Cecile
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1915–1964 · acting roles
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Boone's Landlady (uncredited)
1939
Harriet Wooley (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited)
1947
Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited)
1939
Helen's Maid (uncredited)
1930
Animal Woman (uncredited)
1934
Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited)
1939
Miss Jenkins
1939

Righteous Old Lady (uncredited)
1940
Albert's Mother (uncredited)
1936
Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
1944
Miss Peavy
1944
Mrs. Price
1934
Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited)
1946
Miss Meeker (uncredited)
1919
Hospital Nurse (uncredited)
1944
Miss Swerf
1937
Welfare Association Officer (uncredited)
1932
Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited)
1934
Miss Curtiss
1935
Housekeeper (uncredited)
1935
Miss Updike
1942
Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited)
1940
Casket Customer
1941
Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
Tom's Secretary (uncredited)
1933
Mrs. Beckett (uncredited)
1939
Schoolteacher (uncredited)
1937
Charwoman
1941
Ship's Matron (uncredited)
1935
Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited)
1942
Miss Campbell (uncredited)
1933
Home Economics Woman
1936
Spinster in park (uncredited)
1933
Nurse (uncredited)
1931
Smythe (maid)
1933
Louisa Ames
1947
Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker
1931
Old Witch
1929
Muriel's mother
1933
Miss Tuttle, Principal
1932
Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited)
1934
Mrs. Robinson
1936
Mrs. Moffett
1940Abigail Majendrie
1915

Miss Trent
1936
One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited)
1917
Mrs. Wendelschaffer
1934
Passenger (uncredited)
1942
Mrs. Twitchett
1934
(uncredited)
1929

Edith (uncredited)
1934
Mrs. Lindsay
1919
Aunt Emily Banning
1933
English Woman
1938


Townswoman at Party
1935

Saleslady
1932

Miss Winterbottom
1933
(uncredited)
1922
Landlady (uncredited)
1936
Julia
1927
Miss Perkins (uncredited)
1935
Women's Club President (uncredited)
1940
Female Police Officer
1933
Briarcroft's Teacher
1933
Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited)
1931
Aunt Marie
1918
Amelia Twymley
1930
Widow Peddie
1938
Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited)
1933
Professor Winterbottom (uncredited)
1933
Martha Williams
1943
Matron Helen Hunt
1927
Dr. Cecil Grantham
1926
Miss Elkins (uncredited)
1936
Head of Orphanage
1940
Miss Eggleston
1939
Mrs. Partridge (uncredited)
1930
Countess Casanova
1925
Dr. Zernecke
1930
Miss Spurgeon
1918
School Teacher (uncredited)
1936
The Mayor
1928
Elderly lady (uncredited)
1937
Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited)
1934
Miss Lovelace (uncredited)
1946
Mrs. Crandall
1928
Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited)
1933Head Nurse
1934
Miss Millie
1946
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)
1922
Charity Bazaar Committee
1931
Matilda Shields - in play
1924
Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited)
1932
Landlady (uncredited)
1932
Leader of Committee (uncredited)
1937
Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited)
1935
Housekeeper
1937
School Teacher
1927
Spinster (uncredited)
1916
Aunt Priscilla
1924
Hotel Proprietress
1931
Old Maid at Dog Show
1937
Dressmaker
1937
Mrs. Winslow (uncredited)
1918
(uncredited)
1927Mrs Gossip
1916
Train Passenger
1937
Granny Adams
1935
Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken
1917
Malcom's Nurse (uncredited)
1931
Miss Pettigrew
1934
Miss Prudence Tilly
1918
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1917
Ma Cowan
1927
Betty Carpenter
1927
Mrs. Lodge
1927
Schoolteacher
1934
Customer (uncredited)
1935Subway Passenger (uncredited)
1934
Duchess
1934

Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent
1937
Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman
1936
Mrs. Hart
1926
Lucia's Aunt
1928
Mrs. Randall
1927Aunt Mathilda
1932

Mrs. Cecil
1932
Miss McPherson
1917
Mrs. Prouty
1928
Townswoman
1922
Emily
1918