Zeffie Tilbury

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: Acting

Born: Paddington, London, England, UK, 1863-11-18

Died: 1950-07-24

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1917	Blind Man's Luck	Mrs. Guerton	0
2	1919	The Avalanche	Mrs. Ruyler	0
3	1919	A Society Exile	Mrs. Stanley Shelby	0
4	1920	Mothers of Men	Mrs. De La Motte	50
5	1920	Clothes	Mrs. Cathcart	0
6	1921	The Marriage of William Ashe	Lady Tranmore	0
7	1921	Big Game	Aunt Sarah Winthrop	0
8	1921	Camille	Prudence	57
9	1924	Another Scandal	Brownie	0
10	1927	The Night of Love	Lady in Waiting	50
11	1929	The Single Standard	Mrs. Handley	62
12	1930	The Ship from Shanghai	Lady Daley	57
13	1931	Charlie Chan Carries On	Mrs. Luce	65
14	1933	Made on Broadway	Aunt Ada	65
15	1933	Blind Adventure		55
16	1934	Two Alone	Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)	70
17	1934	Mystery Liner	Granny Plimpton	41
18	1934	Bachelor Bait	Miss Turner (uncredited)	57
19	1934	Ocean Swells	Auntie	0
20	1934	The Fuller Gush Man	Grandma	0
21	1935	Women Must Dress	Peg Martin	30
22	1935	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	The Opium Woman	55
23	1935	Werewolf of London	Mrs. Moncaster	60
24	1935	Public Hero Number 1	Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)	62
25	1935	Stranded	Old Hag (uncredited)	58
26	1935	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Old Townswoman	61
27	1935	Alice Adams	Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)	67
28	1935	Navy Wife	Bridge Player	50
29	1935	The Last Days of Pompeii	The Wise Woman (uncredited)	56
30	1935	Bad Boy	Deaf Woman	50
31	1936	The Bohemian Girl	Gypsy Queen	62
32	1936	Vamp Till Ready	Woman	0
33	1936	Desire	Aunt Olga	69
34	1936	Second Childhood	Grandma	70
35	1936	Parole!	Molly Smith	60
36	1936	The White Angel	Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)	72
37	1936	Anthony Adverse	Old Woman at Chalet	58
38	1936	The Gorgeous Hussy	Mrs. Daniel Beall	53
39	1936	Give Me Your Heart	Esther Warren	60
40	1936	Old Hutch	Elderly Woman in Bank	0
41	1936	Grandma's Buoys	Grandma	0
42	1936	After the Thin Man	Aunt Lucy (uncredited)	73
43	1936	Camille	Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs	70
44	1937	Under Cover of Night	Mrs. Nash	57
45	1937	Bulldog Drummond Escapes	Drunk in Jail Cell	59
46	1937	Maid of Salem	Goody Hodgers	59
47	1937	Midnight Taxi	Mrs. Lane	50
48	1937	Parnell	Old Lady	46
49	1937	Rhythm in the Clouds	The Duchess de Lovely	50
50	1937	Hideaway	Mrs. Beamish	40
51	1937	It Happened in Hollywood	Miss Gordon	61
52	1937	Bulldog Drummond Comes Back	Zeffie	61
53	1937	The King Without a Crown	Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)	55
54	1937	Federal Bullets	Mrs. Crippen	0
55	1938	Bulldog Drummond's Peril	Mrs. Weevens	57
56	1938	Kidnapped	Old Woman	47
57	1938	Hunted Men	Flower Woman	60
58	1938	Woman Against Woman	Grandma	65
59	1938	Marie Antoinette	Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)	66
60	1938	Arrest Bulldog Drummond	Aunt Meg	66
61	1939	Boy Trouble	Mrs. Jepson	50
62	1939	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell	Mrs. Sanders	60
63	1939	Tell No Tales	Miss Mary	53
64	1939	Lady of the Tropics	Woman Congratulating Manon	61
65	1939	Balalaika	Natalya Petrovna	44
66	1940	Emergency Squad	Mrs. Cobb	50
67	1940	The Earl of Chicago	Miss Nana (uncredited)	56
68	1940	The Grapes of Wrath	Grandma Joad	78
69	1940	Comin' Round the Mountain	Granny Stokes	0
70	1940	She Couldn't Say No	Ma Hawkins	68
71	1941	Tobacco Road	Grandma Lester	66
72	1941	Sheriff of Tombstone	Granny Carson	68
73	1942	Flying with Music	Fortune Teller	35

Zeffie Tilbury

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