Minerva Urecal
Born: 1894-09-20 in Eureka, California, USA
Died: 1966-02-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1934. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "Tugboat Annie" and "Peter Gunn." Minerva claimed her name was an amalgam of her hometown, Eureka, California.
Filmography
1991
- Halloween Monster Bash as Fagah (archive footage)
1965
- That Funny Feeling as Woman at Phone Booth
1964
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao as Kate Lindquist
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Martha Winslow
1962
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation as Brenda
1960
1958
- Peter Gunn as Mother
- The Adventures of Tugboat Annie
1957
- Perry Mason as Landlady
1956
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie as Ma Bowie
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Busybody
- Marty as Mrs. Rosari (uncredited)
- A Man Alone as Mrs. Maule (uncredited)
- Double Jeopardy as Mrs. Kreesy
- Sudden Danger as Mrs. Kelly
1953
- The Danny Thomas Show as Mrs. Enright
- Niagara as Mrs. McGrand
- Meet Mr. McNutley
- Woman They Almost Lynched as Mrs. Stuart
- She's Back on Broadway as Cleaning Lady
- Two Gun Marshal as Mama Antonelli
1952
- Cavalcade of America
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Indian Woman
- Oklahoma Annie as Lottie Fling
- Lost in Alaska as Mrs. McGillicuddy
- Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick as Mrs. Peabody
- Harem Girl as Aniseh
- Gobs and Gals as Mrs. Pursell
- Happy Go Wacky
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Roy Rogers Show
- The Raging Tide as Johnnie Mae Swanson
- Dear Brat as Neighbor (uncredited)
- Stop That Cab as Lucy's Mother
- The Awful Sleuth as Bert's Mother-In-Law
1950
- The Gene Autry Show
- Side Street as Landlady
- Quicksand as Landlady
- The Jackpot as Woman Trying On Hats (uncredited)
- The Arizona Cowboy as Cactus Kate Millican
- His Baiting Beauty as Harry's Mother-in-Law
1949
- Take One False Step as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
- The Doolins of Oklahoma as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- The Lovable Cheat as Virginie
- Master Minds as Mrs. Hoskins
- Outcasts of the Trail as Abbie Rysen
- Holiday in Havana as Mama Valdez
1948
- Sitting Pretty as Mrs. Maypole (uncredited)
- The Noose Hangs High as Husky Woman (uncredited)
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes as Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
- Good Sam as Mrs. Nelson
- Family Honeymoon as Mrs. Webb (uncredited)
- April Showers as Landlady (uncredited)
- Marshal of Amarillo as Mrs. Henry Pettigrew
- Secret Service Investigator as Mrs McGiven
- Sundown in Santa Fe as Ella Mae Watson
- Variety Time as Aunt Jessie (footage from 'Hired Husband') (archive footage)
- The Strange Mrs. Crane as Nellie Carter
1947
- California as Emma (uncredited)
- The Lost Moment as Maria
- Cynthia as Agnes, Jannings' Cook (Uncredited)
- The Devil Thumbs a Ride
- Undercover Maisie as Cafe Cook
- Apache Rose as Felicia
- Bowery Buckaroos as Kate T. Barlow
- Heartaches as Charwoman (uncredited)
- Hired Husband as Aunt Jessie
1946
- The Dark Corner as Client Wife (uncredited)
- The Virginian
- Without Reservations as Sue (uncredited)
- The Trap as Miss Weebles, the Housekeeper
- Breakfast in Hollywood as Miss Mullins (uncredited)
- The Well Groomed Bride as Woman in Ticket Line
- Wake Up and Dream as Edna Lucash
- Partners in Time as Miss Abernathy (uncredited)
- Sioux City Sue as Mrs. Abercrombie - Elite Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- Andy Plays Hookey as Andy's Mother-in-Law
- Rainbow Over Texas as Mama Lolita
1945
- The Bells of St. Mary's as Landlady (uncredited)
- State Fair as Woman Congratulating Mrs. Metcalf (uncredited)
- Salty O'Rourke as Saleslady (uncredited)
- A Bell for Adano as Italian Woman
- Voice of the Whistler as Georgie's Wife (uncredited)
- A Medal for Benny as Mrs. Chavez (uncredited)
- Sensation Hunters as Edna Rogers
- Men in Her Diary as Mrs. Braun
- Mr. Muggs Rides Again as Nora Brown
- The Kid Sister as Mrs. Wiggins
- Wanderer of the Wasteland as Mama Rafferty
1944
- Mr. Skeffington as Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
- Crazy Knights as Mrs. Benson
- One Mysterious Night as Miss Wilkinson (Uncredited)
- When Strangers Marry as Landlady (uncredited)
- The Mark of the Whistler as Woman Sweeping Front Stoop (uncredited)
- Louisiana Hayride as Ma Crocker
- Moonlight and Cactus as Abigail
- Man from Frisco as Mrs. Allison
- Music in Manhattan as Mrs. Smith, the Landlady (uncredited)
- Block Busters as Amelia Rogiet
- Bachelor Daze as Abigail O'Rourke
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio's Servant (uncredited)
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt as Mrs. Henderson (uncredited)
- Quiet Please, Murder as Cookbook-Seeking Library Patron
- Ghosts on the Loose as Hilda
- The Ape Man as Agatha Brewster
- Dixie Dugan as Mrs. Wilson (uncredited)
- Hit the Ice as Wife at Hospital (uncredited)
- Keep 'Em Slugging as Miss Billings
- Dangerous Blondes as Mrs. Swanson, Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Kid Dynamite as Judge
- They Stooge to Conga as Marsha - the Nazi Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Something to Shout About as Mrs. Starretton
- The Powers Girl as Maggie (uncredited)
- So This Is Washington as Mrs. Pomeroy (uncredited)
- Pitchin' in the Kitchen as Miss Clabber (uncredited)
1942
- Lady for a Night as Spinster in Audience (uncredited)
- In Old California as Mrs. Carson
- My Favorite Blonde as Stone-Faced Woman (uncredited)
- Sweater Girl as Melinda
- The Corpse Vanishes as Fagah
- The Man in the Trunk as Peggy's Landlady (uncredited)
- The Daring Young Man as Nurse
- The Living Ghost as Delia Phillips
- A Tragedy at Midnight as Housekeeper (uncredited)
- Sons of the Pioneers as Ellie Bixby
- Henry and Dizzy as Mrs. Kilmer
- Beyond the Blue Horizon as Wife at Circus (uncredited)
- That Other Woman as Mrs. MacReady
- Riding Through Nevada as Widow Humbolt
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Nurse (uncredited)
- A Man Betrayed as Librarian (uncredited)
- Bowery Blitzkrieg as Head of Reform School (uncredited)
- Golden Hoofs as Myrt
- Dressed to Kill as Landlady
- Arkansas Judge as Miranda Wolfson
- Accent on Love as Teresa Lombroso
- The Cowboy and the Blonde as Murphy
- Never Give a Sucker an Even Break as The Cleaning Lady
- Murder by Invitation as Maxine Denham
- Marry the Boss's Daughter as Elevator Passenger
- Murder Among Friends as Mrs. O'Heaney (uncredited)
1940
- The Ape as Townswoman
- San Francisco Docks as Landlady
- No, No, Nanette as Woman in Airport
- Wildcat Bus as Old Maid (uncredited)
- You Can't Fool Your Wife as Mrs. Doolittle
- Boys of the City as Agnes
- The Sagebrush Family Trails West as Widow Gail
1939
- Destry Rides Again as Mrs. DeWitt (uncredited)
- Golden Boy as Grocery Customer
- S.O.S Tidal Wave
- Second Fiddle as Miss Bland, the School Principal
- Dancing Co-Ed as Woman on Radio (voice) (uncredited)
- You Can't Cheat an Honest Man as Screaming Spinster at Circus (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Miss Perch - a Nurse
- Sabotage as (uncredited)
- Missing Evidence as Amy, Housewife
- No Place to Go as Miss Rice
- Maid to Order as Mail-Order Bride
1938
- Dramatic School as Rose - Boulin's Secretary (uncredited)
- The Devil's Party as Maria
- Start Cheering as Miss Grimley
- City Streets as Mrs. Grimley (uncredited)
- The Lady in the Morgue as Mrs. Horn (uncredited)
- Frontier Scout as Helen
- Prison Nurse as Sutherland
- Air Devils as Margaret Price
1937
- The Go-Getter as Cappy Ricks' Secretary
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics as Gang Member Posing as Olympics Matron
- Mountain Justice as Ella Crippen
- She Loved a Fireman as Nurse Purdy
- Ever Since Eve as Bellden's Receptionist (uncredited)
- Life Begins with Love as Mrs. Murphy
- Oh, Doctor as Death Watch Mary Mackleforth
- Behind the Mike as Mrs. Reilly
- Her Husband's Secretary as Miss Baldwin
- Love in a Bungalow as Mrs. Kester
- Exiled to Shanghai as Claire
1936
- Fury as Fanny (uncredited)
- Three Godfathers as Parishioner (uncredited)
- Love on a Bet as Miss Jones, MacCreigh's Secretary
1935
- Man on the Flying Trapeze as Italian Woman in Ambulance (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Band as Italian Wife (uncredited)
- His Night Out as Wife (uncredited)
1934
- Sadie McKee as Brennan’s Cook’s Assistant (uncredited)
- Student Tour as Wife
1933
- Bombshell as Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
- Meet the Baron as Downstairs Maid (uncredited)