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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.
Woman Congratulating Manon
Grandma Joad
Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Mrs. Moncaster
Zeffie
Aunt Olga
Old Woman at Chalet
Gypsy Queen
Mrs. Sanders
Old Woman
Granny Plimpton
Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Grandma
Grandma Lester
Aunt Meg
Old Hag (uncredited)
Mrs. Daniel Beall
Natalya Petrovna
The Opium Woman
The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Drunk in Jail Cell
Grandma
Flower Woman
Mrs. Beamish
Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
Mrs. Weevens
Mrs. Lane
Bridge Player
Mrs. Handley
Deaf Woman
Old Lady
Old Townswoman
Goody Hodgers
Miss Mary
Miss Nana (uncredited)
Fortune Teller
Miss Gordon
Mrs. Nash
Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
The Duchess de Lovely
Miss Turner (uncredited)
Mrs. Cobb
Aunt Ada
Prudence
Granny Stokes
Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Mrs. Crippen
Mrs. Jepson
Mrs. Luce
Mrs. Ruyler
Lady Daley
Grandma
Esther Warren
Lady in Waiting
Ma Hawkins
Granny Carson
Mrs. Guerton
Elderly Woman in Bank
Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Molly Smith
Auntie
Lady Tranmore
Mrs. De La Motte
Mrs. Cathcart
Aunt Sarah Winthrop
Peg Martin
Brownie
Woman
Grandma