Biography

According to the Motion Picture News Studio Directory, 21 October 1916, Ora Cecil, was born in St. Catherine's, Ontario, 19 April 1886, and educated in Buffalo, New York. Often referred to as the "Queen of Jaguars, Leopards and Panthers," she became well known performing at Atlantic City and Coney Island, joined the Bostock Trained Animal Show with Jack Bonavita in mid-1903 and performed with them for the next decade, primarily on the East Coast. She was married to Joseph Alexander McField (2 December 1882-3 January 1937), a managerial member of the Bostock Company. In 1915, film producer David Horsely signed the company to participate in his series of two-reel thrillers he was filming in Bayonne, New Jersey under the Centaur Film Company banner. Although only screen credited in _The Rajah's Sacrifice (1915)_, Ora Cecil is known to have participated in others, along with Jack Bonavita, either as an actress and/or an animal trainer. No further information as to her later life and death has yet been found.

Despite the similarity of their names, Ora Cecil and Nora Cecil are positively two different persons and should not be confused with each other.