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Zeffie Tilbury
Born · November 18, 1863
Died · July 24, 1950 (86 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
Bio
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.
Flying with Music
Fortune Teller
2.8
1942
Sheriff of Tombstone
Granny Carson
6.8
1941
Tobacco Road
Grandma Lester
6.6
1941
She Couldn't Say No
Ma Hawkins
6.8
1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
Granny Stokes
0.0
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Grandma Joad
7.8
1940
The Earl of Chicago
Miss Nana (uncredited)
5.6
1940
Emergency Squad
Mrs. Cobb
5.0
1940
Balalaika
Natalya Petrovna
4.2
1939
Lady of the Tropics
Woman Congratulating Manon
6.1
1939
Tell No Tales
Miss Mary
5.3
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Mrs. Sanders
5.9
1939
Boy Trouble
Mrs. Jepson
5.0
1939
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Aunt Meg
6.7
1938
Marie Antoinette
Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
6.3
1938
Woman Against Woman
Grandma
6.5
1938
Kidnapped
Old Woman
6.0
1938
Hunted Men
Flower Woman
6.0
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Mrs. Weevens
5.7
1938
Federal Bullets
Mrs. Crippen
0.0
1937
The King Without a Crown
Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
5.5
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Zeffie
6.1
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
Miss Gordon
6.2
1937
Hideaway
Mrs. Beamish
4.0
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
The Duchess de Lovely
5.0
1937
Parnell
Old Lady
4.6
1937
Midnight Taxi
Mrs. Lane
5.0
1937
Maid of Salem
Goody Hodgers
5.9
1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Drunk in Jail Cell
5.9
1937
Under Cover of Night
Mrs. Nash
5.7
1937
Camille
Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
7.0
1936
After the Thin Man
Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
7.3
1936
Grandma's Buoys
Grandma
0.0
1936
Old Hutch
Elderly Woman in Bank
0.0
1936
Give Me Your Heart
Esther Warren
6.0
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Mrs. Daniel Beall
5.2
1936
Anthony Adverse
Old Woman at Chalet
5.7
1936
The White Angel
Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
8.0
1936
Parole!
Molly Smith
6.0
1936
Desire
Aunt Olga
6.7
1936
Second Childhood
Grandma
7.0
1936
Vamp Till Ready
Woman
0.0
1936
The Bohemian Girl
Gypsy Queen
6.2
1936
Bad Boy
Deaf Woman
5.0
1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
The Wise Woman (uncredited)
5.6
1935
Navy Wife
Bridge Player
5.0
1935
Alice Adams
Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
6.7
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Old Townswoman
6.1
1935
Stranded
Old Hag (uncredited)
5.8
1935
Public Hero Number 1
Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
6.2
1935
Werewolf of London
Mrs. Moncaster
6.0
1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Opium Woman
5.5
1935
Women Must Dress
Peg Martin
3.0
1935
The Fuller Gush Man
Grandma
0.0
1934
Ocean Swells
Auntie
0.0
1934
Bachelor Bait
Miss Turner (uncredited)
5.7
1934
Mystery Liner
Granny Plimpton
4.6
1934
Two Alone
Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
7.0
1934
Blind Adventure
5.5
1933
Made on Broadway
Aunt Ada
6.5
1933
Charlie Chan Carries On
Mrs. Luce
6.5
1931
The Ship from Shanghai
Lady Daley
5.7
1930
The Single Standard
Mrs. Handley
6.2
1929
The Night of Love
Lady in Waiting
5.0
1927
Another Scandal
Brownie
0.0
1924
Camille
Prudence
5.7
1921
Big Game
Aunt Sarah Winthrop
0.0
1921
The Marriage of William Ashe
Lady Tranmore
0.0
1921
Clothes
Mrs. Cathcart
0.0
1920
Mothers of Men
Mrs. De La Motte
5.0
1920
A Society Exile
Mrs. Stanley Shelby
0.0
1919
The Avalanche
Mrs. Ruyler
0.0
1919
Blind Man's Luck
Mrs. Guerton
0.0
1917