Zeffie Tilbury
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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.
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Movies (73)
Flying with Music
1942 · Fortune Teller
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Granny Carson
Tobacco Road
1941 · Grandma Lester
She Couldn't Say No
1940 · Ma Hawkins
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940 · Granny Stokes
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Grandma Joad
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Miss Nana (uncredited)
Emergency Squad
1940 · Mrs. Cobb
Balalaika
1939 · Natalya Petrovna
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Woman Congratulating Manon
Tell No Tales
1939 · Miss Mary
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · Mrs. Sanders
Boy Trouble
1939 · Mrs. Jepson
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · Aunt Meg
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Grandma
Kidnapped
1938 · Old Woman
Hunted Men
1938 · Flower Woman
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938 · Mrs. Weevens
Federal Bullets
1937 · Mrs. Crippen
The King Without a Crown
1937 · Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937 · Zeffie
It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · Miss Gordon
Hideaway
1937 · Mrs. Beamish
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · The Duchess de Lovely
Parnell
1937 · Old Lady
Midnight Taxi
1937 · Mrs. Lane
Maid of Salem
1937 · Goody Hodgers
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937 · Drunk in Jail Cell
Under Cover of Night
1937 · Mrs. Nash
Camille
1936 · Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
After the Thin Man
1936 · Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Grandma's Buoys
1936 · Grandma
Old Hutch
1936 · Elderly Woman in Bank
Give Me Your Heart
1936 · Esther Warren
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Mrs. Daniel Beall
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Old Woman at Chalet
The White Angel
1936 · Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Parole!
1936 · Molly Smith
Desire
1936 · Aunt Olga
Second Childhood
1936 · Grandma
Vamp Till Ready
1936 · Woman
The Bohemian Girl
1936 · Gypsy Queen
Bad Boy
1935 · Deaf Woman
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Navy Wife
1935 · Bridge Player
Alice Adams
1935 · Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Old Townswoman
Stranded
1935 · Old Hag (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
1935 · Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Werewolf of London
1935 · Mrs. Moncaster
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · The Opium Woman
Women Must Dress
1935 · Peg Martin
The Fuller Gush Man
1934 · Grandma
Ocean Swells
1934 · Auntie
Bachelor Bait
1934 · Miss Turner (uncredited)
Mystery Liner
1934 · Granny Plimpton
Two Alone
1934 · Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Blind Adventure
1933
Made on Broadway
1933 · Aunt Ada
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931 · Mrs. Luce
The Ship from Shanghai
1930 · Lady Daley
The Single Standard
1929 · Mrs. Handley
The Night of Love
1927 · Lady in Waiting
Another Scandal
1924 · Brownie
Camille
1921 · Prudence
Big Game
1921 · Aunt Sarah Winthrop
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921 · Lady Tranmore
Clothes
1920 · Mrs. Cathcart
Mothers of Men
1920 · Mrs. De La Motte
A Society Exile
1919 · Mrs. Stanley Shelby
The Avalanche
1919 · Mrs. Ruyler
Blind Man's Luck
1917 · Mrs. Guerton
