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