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person_profile-Zeffie Tilbury

Zeffie Tilbury Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Zeffie Tilbury

Date of Birth:

Nov 18, 1863

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

Jul 24, 1950

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Zeffie Tilbury

Found 59 Movies in total

Flying with Music

Fortune Teller ( Actor )

... 1942

Sheriff of Tombstone

Granny Carson ( Actor )

... 1941

Tobacco Road

Grandma Lester ( Actor )

... 1941

She Couldn't Say No

Ma Hawkins ( Actor )

... 1940

Comin' Round the Mountain

Granny Stokes ( Actor )

... 1940

The Grapes of Wrath

Grandma Joad ( Actor )

... 1940

Emergency Squad

Mrs. Cobb ( Actor )

... 1940

The Earl of Chicago

Miss Nana (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1940

Balalaika

Natalya Petrovna ( Actor )

... 1939

Lady of the Tropics

Woman Congratulating Manon ( Actor )

... 1939

Tell No Tales

Miss Mary ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

Boy Trouble

Mrs. Jepson ( Actor )

... 1939

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

Aunt Meg ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Woman Against Woman

Grandma ( Actor )

... 1938

Kidnapped

Old Woman ( Actor )

... 1938

Hunted Men

Flower Woman ( Actor )

... 1938

Bulldog Drummond's Peril

Mrs. Weevens ( Actor )

... 1938

Federal Bullets

Mrs. Crippen ( Actor )

... 1937

... 1937

It Happened in Hollywood

Miss Gordon ( Actor )

... 1937

Hideaway

Mrs. Beamish ( Actor )

... 1937

Rhythm in the Clouds

The Duchess de Lovely ( Actor )

... 1937

Parnell

Old Lady ( Actor )

... 1937

Midnight Taxi

Mrs. Lane ( Actor )

... 1937

Maid of Salem

Goody Hodgers ( Actor )

... 1937

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Drunk in Jail Cell ( Actor )

... 1937

Under Cover of Night

Mrs. Nash ( Actor )

... 1937

Camille

Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs ( Actor )

... 1936

After the Thin Man

Aunt Lucy (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Old Hutch

Elderly Woman in Bank ( Actor )

... 1936

Give Me Your Heart

Esther Warren ( Actor )

... 1936

The Gorgeous Hussy

Mrs. Daniel Beall ( Actor )

... 1936

Anthony Adverse

Old Woman at Chalet ( Actor )

... 1936

The White Angel

Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1936

Parole!

Molly Smith ( Actor )

... 1936

Desire

Aunt Olga ( Actor )

... 1936

Bad Boy

Deaf Woman ( Actor )

... 1935

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Wise Woman (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Navy Wife

Bridge Player ( Actor )

... 1935

Alice Adams

Mrs. Dresser (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Stranded

Old Hag (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Public Hero Number 1

Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1935

Werewolf of London

Mrs. Moncaster ( Actor )

... 1935

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Opium Woman ( Actor )

... 1935

Women Must Dress

Peg Martin ( Actor )

... 1935

Bachelor Bait

Miss Turner (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Mystery Liner

Granny Plimpton ( Actor )

... 1934

Two Alone

Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1934

Charlie Chan Carries On

Mrs. Luce ( Actor )

... 1931

The Ship from Shanghai

Lady Daley ( Actor )

... 1930

The Single Standard

Mrs. Handley ( Actor )

... 1929

The Night of Love

Lady in Waiting ( Actor )

... 1927

Camille

Prudence ( Actor )

... 1921

Clothes

Mrs. Cathcart ( Actor )

... 1920

Mothers of Men

Mrs. De La Motte ( Actor )

... 1920

A Society Exile

Mrs. Stanley Shelby ( Actor )

... 1919

The Avalanche

Mrs. Ruyler ( Actor )

... 1919