Zeffie Tilbury
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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
Credits
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
as Grandma Joad
Desire (1936)
as Aunt Olga
Camille (1936)
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
Camille (1921)
as Prudence
Parnell (1937)
as Old Lady
After the Thin Man (1936)
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Parole! (1936)
as Molly Smith
Bachelor Bait (1934)
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
as Woman Congratulating Manon
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
as Gypsy Queen
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
Alice Adams (1935)
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
as Mrs. Sanders
Werewolf of London (1935)
as Mrs. Moncaster
Marie Antoinette (1938)
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Tobacco Road (1941)
as Grandma Lester
Under Cover of Night (1937)
as Mrs. Nash
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
as Old Townswoman
Anthony Adverse (1936)
as Old Woman at Chalet
Maid of Salem (1937)
as Goody Hodgers
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
as Miss Gordon
Blind Man's Luck (1917)
as Mrs. Guerton
Clothes (1920)
as Mrs. Cathcart
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Women Must Dress (1935)
as Peg Martin
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
as The Opium Woman
The White Angel (1936)
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
as Esther Warren
Flying with Music (1942)
as Fortune Teller
Ocean Swells (1934)
as Auntie
Kidnapped (1938)
as Old Woman
Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)
as The Duchess de Lovely
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
as Zeffie
Hunted Men (1938)
as Flower Woman
The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
as Lady Daley
Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)
as Granny Stokes
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
as Drunk in Jail Cell
Tell No Tales (1939)
as Miss Mary
Federal Bullets (1937)
as Mrs. Crippen
The King Without a Crown (1937)
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Big Game (1921)
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
A Society Exile (1919)
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Grandma's Buoys (1936)
as Grandma
The Night of Love (1927)
as Lady in Waiting
The Marriage of William Ashe (1921)
as Lady Tranmore
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
as Granny Carson
She Couldn't Say No (1940)
as Ma Hawkins
Bad Boy (1935)
as Deaf Woman
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
as Mrs. Weevens
Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
as Aunt Meg
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
as Mrs. Luce
Balalaika (1939)
as Natalya Petrovna
Blind Adventure (1933)
Actor
The Fuller Gush Man (1934)
as Grandma
Mothers of Men (1920)
as Mrs. De La Motte
Another Scandal (1924)
as Brownie
Stranded (1935)
as Old Hag (uncredited)
Mystery Liner (1934)
as Granny Plimpton
Second Childhood (1936)
as Grandma
Woman Against Woman (1938)
as Grandma
Two Alone (1934)
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Emergency Squad (1940)
as Mrs. Cobb
Navy Wife (1935)
as Bridge Player
Boy Trouble (1939)
as Mrs. Jepson
Midnight Taxi (1937)
as Mrs. Lane
The Single Standard (1929)
as Mrs. Handley
Old Hutch (1936)
as Elderly Woman in Bank
Hideaway (1937)
as Mrs. Beamish
Made on Broadway (1933)
as Aunt Ada
Vamp Till Ready (1936)
as Woman
The Avalanche (1919)
as Mrs. Ruyler