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