Nora Cecil: movies and TV shows
Nora Cecil has 145 credits in the archive: 145 films and 0 TV series, from 1915 to 1964. Highest rated: Stagecoach (7.6/10).
Career timeline
1915 – 1964 · busiest year: 1934 (13 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Actress in 'Hollywood Party' (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 85 |
| 1947 | The Sea of Grass | Mrs. Ryan - Nurse (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 1947 | Mourning Becomes Electra | Louisa Ames | Film | 6.1 | 68 |
| 1946 | Two Sisters from Boston | Mrs. Mulberry - Recital Guest (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 1946 | The Missing Lady | Miss Millie | Film | 4.8 | 67 |
| 1946 | Big Town | Miss Lovelace (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 1945 | Lady on a Train | Film | 6.7 | 66 | |
| 1944 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Hospital Nurse (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 65 |
| 1944 | The Thin Man Goes Home | Miss Peavy | Film | 7.1 | 65 |
| 1944 | Hail the Conquering Hero | Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 65 |
| 1943 | The Unknown Guest | Martha Williams | Film | 7.0 | 64 |
| 1942 | I Married a Witch | Harriet Wooley (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1942 | The Wife Takes a Flyer | Miss Updike | Film | 5.5 | 63 |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady | Miss Hollyrod - Bird Lover (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 1942 | Apache Trail | Passenger (uncredited) | Film | 6.9 | 63 |
| 1941 | Three Girls About Town | Casket Customer | Film | 6.5 | 62 |
| 1941 | A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob | Charwoman | Film | 5.5 | 62 |
| 1940 | The Bank Dick | Lompoc Ladies Auxiliary (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 61 |
| 1940 | Young People | Righteous Old Lady (uncredited) | Film | 5.2 | 61 |
| 1940 | Those Were the Days! | Mrs. Moffett | Film | 8.0 | 61 |
| 1940 | Lucky Partners | Women's Club President (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 61 |
| 1940 | Little Men | Head of Orphanage | Film | 5.5 | 61 |
| 1939 | Stagecoach | Boone's Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 7.6 | 60 |
| 1939 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Miss Jenkins | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Snoring Woman on Train (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 60 |
| 1939 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mrs. Shackleford (uncredited) | Film | 6.7 | 60 |
| 1939 | Some Like It Hot | Mrs. Beckett (uncredited) | Film | 7.6 | 60 |
| 1939 | What a Life | Miss Eggleston | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 1938 | Mr. Boggs Steps Out | Widow Peddie | Film | 5.3 | 59 |
| 1938 | International Settlement | English Woman | Film | 6.0 | 59 |
| 1937 | Easy Living | Miss Swerf | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1937 | Nothing Sacred | Schoolteacher (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 1937 | Night Must Fall | Film | 6.9 | 58 | |
| 1937 | Champagne Waltz | Train Passenger | Film | 10.0 | 58 |
| 1937 | Borrowing Trouble | Dressmaker | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1937 | She Asked for It | Elderly lady (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1937 | Night of Mystery | Film | 10.0 | 58 | |
| 1937 | Blossoms On Broadway | Leader of Committee (uncredited) | Film | 4.8 | 58 |
| 1937 | Three Smart Boys | Miss Witherspoon, Superintendent | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1937 | Partners in Crime | Housekeeper | Film | 8.0 | 58 |
| 1937 | The Mighty Treve | Old Maid at Dog Show | Film | 7.5 | 58 |
| 1936 | Fury | Albert's Mother (uncredited) | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1936 | Two in the Dark | Mrs. Potter, Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 57 |
| 1936 | The Big Broadcast of 1937 | Home Economics Woman | Film | 6.2 | 57 |
| 1936 | Let's Make a Million | Film | 7.5 | 57 | |
| 1936 | Girl of the Ozarks | Miss Trent | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1936 | College Holiday | Miss Elkins (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 1936 | Little Miss Nobody | Mrs. Robinson | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1936 | Dancing Pirate | Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 1936 | Under Your Spell | School Teacher (uncredited) | Film | 7.3 | 57 |
| 1936 | Laughing at Trouble | Mrs. Wigby - Townswoman | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1935 | Gold Diggers of 1935 | Housekeeper (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 56 |
| 1935 | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Ship's Matron (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 56 |
| 1935 | Vagabond Lady | Miss Perkins (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 56 |
| 1935 | Collegiate | Miss Curtiss | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1935 | Way Down East | Townswoman at Party | Film | 4.5 | 56 |
| 1935 | Car 99 | Granny Adams | Film | 7.5 | 56 |
| 1935 | Slightly Static | Beauty Products Announcer (uncredited) | Film | 9.0 | 56 |
| 1935 | Memories and Melodies | Customer (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 56 |
| 1934 | The Merry Widow | Animal Woman (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 55 |
| 1934 | You're Telling Me! | Mrs. Price | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 1934 | Chained | Edith (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 55 |
| 1934 | Bachelor Bait | Mrs. Trutmanner (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 1934 | Once to Every Woman | Miss Baxter’s Sister (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1934 | Upperworld | Stream's Housekeeper (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 55 |
| 1934 | The Old-Fashioned Way | Mrs. Wendelschaffer | Film | 7.2 | 55 |
| 1934 | Mixed Nuts | Mrs. Twitchett | Film | 7.1 | 55 |
| 1934 | Opened by Mistake | Head Nurse | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1934 | Laughing Boy | Schoolteacher | Film | 3.7 | 55 |
| 1934 | One-Horse Farmers | Subway Passenger (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 1934 | Search for Beauty | Miss Pettigrew | Film | 5.5 | 55 |
| 1934 | The Spectacle Maker | Duchess | Film | 6.2 | 55 |
| 1933 | Design for Living | Tom's Secretary (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 54 |
| 1933 | Peg o' My Heart | Smythe (maid) | Film | 5.0 | 54 |
| 1933 | Hold Your Man | Miss Campbell (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1933 | King of the Jungle | Spinster in park (uncredited) | Film | 5.8 | 54 |
| 1933 | Stage Mother | Miss Gilford, Kitty's Music Store Boss (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 54 |
| 1933 | Doctor Bull | Aunt Emily Banning | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1933 | Going Hollywood | Briarcroft's Teacher | Film | 5.5 | 54 |
| 1933 | Asleep in the Feet | Female Police Officer | Film | 4.8 | 54 |
| 1933 | Fast Workers | Tall Window-Shopper (Uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 54 |
| 1933 | Wreckety Wrecks | Miss Winterbottom | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1933 | Nature in the Wrong | Muriel's mother | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 1933 | Meet the Baron | Professor Winterbottom (uncredited) | Film | 5.3 | 54 |
| 1932 | Pack Up Your Troubles | Welfare Association Officer (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 53 |
| 1932 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen | Missionary | Film | 6.3 | 53 |
| 1932 | Girl Grief | Miss Tuttle, Principal | Film | 7.0 | 53 |
| 1932 | Amateur Daddy | Saleslady | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1932 | Young Bride | Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 4.2 | 53 |
| 1932 | Hot Saturday | Gossip on Telephone (Uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 1932 | The Millionaire Cat | Aunt Mathilda | Film | 10.0 | 53 |
| 1932 | Mr. Bride | Mrs. Cecil | Film | 5.8 | 53 |
| 1931 | Arrowsmith | Nurse (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 52 |
| 1931 | Street Scene | Alice Simpson - Welfare Worker | Film | 6.8 | 52 |
| 1931 | Millie | Helen and Angie's Landlady (uncredited) | Film | 5.3 | 52 |
| 1931 | East Lynne | Charity Bazaar Committee | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 1931 | Everything’s Rosie | Hotel Proprietress | Film | 6.0 | 52 |
| 1931 | The Ruling Voice | Malcom's Nurse (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 52 |
| 1930 | Hell's Angels | Helen's Maid (uncredited) | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1930 | The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu | Film | 5.3 | 51 | |
| 1930 | Only Saps Work | Mrs. Partridge (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 51 |
| 1930 | Seven Days Leave | Amelia Twymley | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1930 | Little Accident | Dr. Zernecke | Film | 9.0 | 51 |
| 1929 | Seven Footprints to Satan | Old Witch | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 1929 | Footlights and Fools | (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 50 |
| 1928 | A Trick of Hearts | The Mayor | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1928 | The Baby Cyclone | Mrs. Crandall | Film | 8.0 | 49 |
| 1928 | The Cavalier | Lucia's Aunt | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 1928 | Driftwood | Mrs. Prouty | Film | 9.0 | 49 |
| 1927 | The Devil Dancer | Julia | Film | 5.7 | 48 |
| 1927 | The Demi-Bride | School Teacher | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1927 | Sensation Seekers | Mrs. Lodge | Film | 6.7 | 48 |
| 1927 | Too Many Crooks | (uncredited) | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1927 | Born to Battle | Ma Cowan | Film | 7.0 | 48 |
| 1927 | Girls | Matron Helen Hunt | Film | 4.8 | 48 |
| 1927 | The Silent Rider | Mrs. Randall | Film | 10.0 | 48 |
| 1927 | The Fortune Hunter | Betty Carpenter | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 1926 | Chip of the Flying U | Dr. Cecil Grantham | Film | 9.0 | 47 |
| 1926 | Midnight Faces | Mrs. Hart | Film | 6.8 | 47 |
| 1925 | Three Weeks in Paris | Film | 8.0 | 46 | |
| 1925 | His Majesty, Bunker Bean | Countess Casanova | Film | 9.0 | 46 |
| 1924 | Darwin Was Right | Aunt Priscilla | Film | 7.0 | 45 |
| 1924 | The Deadwood Coach | Matilda Shields - in play | Film | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1922 | The Town That Forgot God | (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 43 |
| 1922 | Manslaughter | Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 43 |
| 1922 | Timothy's Quest | Townswoman | Film | 6.9 | 43 |
| 1921 | Footfalls | Film | 10.0 | 42 | |
| 1920 | Red Foam | Film | 8.0 | 41 | |
| 1920 | The Daughter Pays | Film | 7.0 | 41 | |
| 1919 | Woman, Woman! | Mrs. Lindsay | Film | — | 40 |
| 1919 | Miss Crusoe | Miss Meeker (uncredited) | Film | 9.0 | 40 |
| 1919 | An Amateur Widow | Film | — | 40 | |
| 1918 | Prunella | Film | — | 39 | |
| 1918 | By Hook or Crook | Aunt Marie | Film | 9.0 | 39 |
| 1918 | Appearance of Evil | Miss Spurgeon | Film | — | 39 |
| 1918 | Love Net | Miss Prudence Tilly | Film | 7.0 | 39 |
| 1918 | The Zero Hour | Mrs. Winslow (uncredited) | Film | — | 39 |
| 1918 | American Buds | Emily | Film | — | 39 |
| 1917 | The Poor Little Rich Girl | One of Gwendolyn's Teachers (uncredited) | Film | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1917 | Tillie Wakes Up | Gossip in Ice Cream Parlor / Woman Having Picture Taken | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1917 | The Wild Girl | Undetermined Role (uncredited) | Film | 10.0 | 38 |
| 1917 | A Royal Romance | Miss McPherson | Film | — | 38 |
| 1916 | The Social Secretary | Spinster (uncredited) | Film | 5.6 | 37 |
| 1916 | A Model Husband | Mrs Gossip | Film | 6.5 | 37 |
| 1915 | The Arrival of Perpetua | Abigail Majendrie | Film | — | 36 |