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