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