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Nora Cecil

Biography

Nora Cecil

Overview

  • Born
    September 26, 1878 · London, England, UK
  • Died
    May 1, 1951 · Los Angeles, California, USA (undisclosed)
  • Height
    5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)

Biography

  • Nora Cecil was born on September 26, 1878 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Street Scene (1931), Seven Days Leave (1930) and Midnight Faces (1926). She died on May 1, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Trivia

  • Veteran English-born character actress, in America from 1915. She initially acted in silent films made at Ft. Lee, New Jersey. During the following three decades, she carved out a career as thin-lipped, stern-visaged dowagers and forbidding mothers-in-law, both in dramatic roles and as comic foil to comedians like W.C. Fields and Laurel & Hardy.
  • Nora Cecil is NOT to be confused with the similarly named Ora Cecil who was a professional leopard trainer and participated in some films in the 1910s with Jack Bostock and His Animals.

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