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