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