Acting
Zeffie Tilbury
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Born
18 November 1863
Died
24 July 1950 (aged 86)
Birthplace
Paddington, London, England, UK
Also known as Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury · Zeffie Tilsbury
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (November 20, 1863 – July 24, 1950) was an English actress. Tilbury was known first on the London stage and on Broadway in New York City. In 1881, she debuted on stage in Nine Points of the Law at the Theatre Royal, Brighton, England. She is today best known for playing wise or evil older characters in films, such as the distinguished lady gambler at dinner with Garbo in The Single Standard, as the pitiful Grandma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Grandma Lester in Tobacco Road. She appeared in over 70 films. Her earliest surviving silent film is the Valentino / Nazimova 1921 production of Camille. Tilbury is probably best remembered as the old lady who is befriended by Spanky and his friends on her birthday and, as a result, is transformed from a lonely, disagreeable recluse to a happy and loving carefree soul in the 1936 Hal Roach Our Gang comedy Second Childhood. In the same year she also portrayed the Gypsy Queen in the Laurel and Hardy film The Bohemian Girl. Tilbury was married twice. First to Arthur Frederick Lewis in June, 1887, and later to L. E. Woodthorpe, who died on April 8, 1915. She died in Los Angeles, California in 1950 at the age of 86.
Known for
Filmography
Flying with Music
as Fortune Teller
Tobacco Road
as Grandma Lester
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny Carson
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma Joad
She Couldn't Say No
as Ma Hawkins
Emergency Squad
as Mrs. Cobb
The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny Stokes
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. Sanders
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Jepson
Tell No Tales
as Miss Mary
Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating Manon
Balalaika
as Natalya Petrovna
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Aunt Meg
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Mrs. Weevens
Woman Against Woman
as Grandma
Kidnapped
as Old Woman
Marie Antoinette
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Hunted Men
as Flower Woman
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Drunk in Jail Cell
Rhythm in the Clouds
as The Duchess de Lovely
The King Without a Crown
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
It Happened in Hollywood
as Miss Gordon
Midnight Taxi
as Mrs. Lane
Hideaway
as Mrs. Beamish
Maid of Salem
as Goody Hodgers
Federal Bullets
as Mrs. Crippen
Under Cover of Night
as Mrs. Nash
Parnell
as Old Lady
Desire
as Aunt Olga
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
Give Me Your Heart
as Esther Warren
The White Angel
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
After the Thin Man
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Vamp Till Ready
as Woman
Second Childhood
as Grandma
Camille
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Old Hutch
as Elderly Woman in Bank
Parole!
as Molly Smith
Anthony Adverse
as Old Woman at Chalet
The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy Queen
Werewolf of London
as Mrs. Moncaster
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as The Opium Woman
Alice Adams
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Women Must Dress
as Peg Martin
Navy Wife
as Bridge Player
Stranded
as Old Hag (uncredited)
The Last Days of Pompeii
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Bad Boy
as Deaf Woman
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Old Townswoman
Mystery Liner
as Granny Plimpton
Two Alone
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
Made on Broadway
as Aunt Ada
Charlie Chan Carries On
as Mrs. Luce
The Ship from Shanghai
as Lady Daley
The Single Standard
as Mrs. Handley
The Night of Love
as Lady in Waiting
Another Scandal
as Brownie
Camille
as Prudence
Big Game
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
The Marriage of William Ashe
as Lady Tranmore
Mothers of Men
as Mrs. De La Motte
Clothes
as Mrs. Cathcart
The Avalanche
as Mrs. Ruyler
A Society Exile
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Blind Man's Luck
as Mrs. Guerton