Nora Cecil

Known for ActingBorn 1878-09-24Died 1951-05-01London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

What a Life

Night of Mystery

Champagne Waltz

Wreckety Wrecks

Amateur Daddy

The Millionaire Cat

The Silent Rider

Too Many Crooks

Footfalls

The Wild Girl

Slightly Static

Memories and Melodies

Little Accident

Driftwood

Chip of the Flying U

His Majesty, Bunker Bean

The Deadwood Coach

Miss Crusoe

By Hook or Crook

Those Were the Days!

Partners in Crime

She Asked for It

Laughing at Trouble

One-Horse Farmers

Opened by Mistake

A Trick of Hearts

The Baby Cyclone

The Demi-Bride

The Fortune Hunter

Three Weeks in Paris

The Town That Forgot God

Red Foam

Stagecoach

Some Like It Hot

The Mighty Treve

Little Miss Nobody

Fury

Let's Make a Million

Car 99

The Big Parade of Comedy

Vagabond Lady

Under Your Spell

The Thin Man Goes Home

Hail the Conquering Hero

The Old-Fashioned Way

Easy Living

Design for Living

Mixed Nuts