Name
Zeffie Tilbury
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1863-11-18
Deathday
1950-07-24 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
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- 1940 The Grapes of Wrath as Grandma Joad
- 1935 Werewolf of London as Mrs. Moncaster
- 1938 Arrest Bulldog Drummond as Aunt Meg
- 1937 Bulldog Drummond Comes Back as Zeffie
- 1937 Bulldog Drummond Escapes as Drunk in Jail Cell
- 1941 Tobacco Road as Grandma Lester
- 1939 The Story of Alexander Graham Bell as Mrs. Sanders
- 1935 The Mystery of Edwin Drood as The Opium Woman
- 1936 Desire as Aunt Olga
- 1929 The Single Standard as Mrs. Handley
- 1936 The Gorgeous Hussy as Mrs. Daniel Beall
- 1938 Bulldog Drummond's Peril as Mrs. Weevens
- 1937 Rhythm in the Clouds as The Duchess de Lovely
- 1940 She Couldn't Say No as Ma Hawkins
- 1919 The Avalanche as Mrs. Ruyler
- 1919 A Society Exile as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
- 1937 The King Without a Crown as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
- 1934 The Fuller Gush Man as Grandma
- 1939 Boy Trouble as Mrs. Jepson
- 1930 The Ship from Shanghai as Lady Daley
- 1935 Alice Adams as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
- 1935 Women Must Dress as Peg Martin
- 1920 Mothers of Men as Mrs. De La Motte
- 1937 It Happened in Hollywood as Miss Gordon
- 1921 Camille as Prudence
- 1938 Woman Against Woman as Grandma
- 1939 Tell No Tales as Miss Mary
- 1936 Give Me Your Heart as Esther Warren
- 1937 Midnight Taxi as Mrs. Lane
- 1936 The White Angel as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
- 1934 Ocean Swells as Auntie
- 1939 Lady of the Tropics as Woman Congratulating Manon
- 1939 Balalaika as Natalya Petrovna
- 1931 Charlie Chan Carries On as Mrs. Luce
- 1937 Hideaway as Mrs. Beamish
- 1938 Kidnapped as Old Woman
- 1937 Maid of Salem as Goody Hodgers
- 1940 The Earl of Chicago as Miss Nana (uncredited)
- 1940 Emergency Squad as Mrs. Cobb
- 1937 Federal Bullets as Mrs. Crippen
- 1936 Grandma's Buoys as Grandma
- 1934 Mystery Liner as Granny Plimpton
- 1934 Two Alone as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1941 Sheriff of Tombstone as Granny Carson
- 1936 After the Thin Man as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
- 1937 Under Cover of Night as Mrs. Nash
- 1935 Navy Wife as Bridge Player
- 1935 Stranded as Old Hag (uncredited)
- 1935 The Last Days of Pompeii as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
- 1934 Bachelor Bait as Miss Turner (uncredited)
- 1935 Public Hero Number 1 as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
- 1938 Marie Antoinette as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
- 1936 Vamp Till Ready as Woman
- 1936 Second Childhood as Grandma
- 1924 Another Scandal as Brownie
- 1942 Flying with Music as Fortune Teller
- 1940 Comin' Round the Mountain as Granny Stokes
- 1938 Hunted Men as Flower Woman
- 1937 Parnell as Old Lady
- 1936 Camille as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
- 1936 Old Hutch as Elderly Woman in Bank
- 1936 Parole! as Molly Smith
- 1936 Anthony Adverse as Old Woman at Chalet
- 1936 The Bohemian Girl as Gypsy Queen
- 1935 Bad Boy as Deaf Woman
- 1935 The Farmer Takes a Wife as Old Townswoman
- 1933 Blind Adventure
- 1933 Made on Broadway as Aunt Ada
- 1927 The Night of Love as Lady in Waiting
- 1921 Big Game as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
- 1921 The Marriage of William Ashe as Lady Tranmore
- 1920 Clothes as Mrs. Cathcart
- 1917 Blind Man's Luck as Mrs. Guerton
- 1955 MGM Parade ( 1 episode ) as Self
