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