Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
1863-11-18 · Paddington, London, England, UK
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
MGM Parade
1955 · Series
Flying with Music
1942 · Movie
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Movie
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie
She Couldn't Say No
1940 · Movie
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940 · Movie
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Movie
Emergency Squad
1940 · Movie
Balalaika
1939 · Movie
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Movie
Tell No Tales
1939 · Movie
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · Movie
Boy Trouble
1939 · Movie
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · Movie
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Movie
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Movie
Kidnapped
1938 · Movie
Hunted Men
1938 · Movie
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938 · Movie
Federal Bullets
1937 · Movie
The King Without a Crown
1937 · Movie
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937 · Movie
It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · Movie
Hideaway
1937 · Movie
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · Movie
Parnell
1937 · Movie
Midnight Taxi
1937 · Movie
Maid of Salem
1937 · Movie
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937 · Movie
Under Cover of Night
1937 · Movie
Camille
1936 · Movie
After the Thin Man
1936 · Movie
Grandma's Buoys
1936 · Movie
Old Hutch
1936 · Movie
Give Me Your Heart
1936 · Movie
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Movie
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Movie
The White Angel
1936 · Movie
Parole!
1936 · Movie
Desire
1936 · Movie
Second Childhood
1936 · Movie
Vamp Till Ready
1936 · Movie
The Bohemian Girl
1936 · Movie
Bad Boy
1935 · Movie
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · Movie
Navy Wife
1935 · Movie
Alice Adams
1935 · Movie
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Movie
Stranded
1935 · Movie
Public Hero Number 1
1935 · Movie
Werewolf of London
1935 · Movie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · Movie
Women Must Dress
1935 · Movie
The Fuller Gush Man
1934 · Movie
Ocean Swells
1934 · Movie
Bachelor Bait
1934 · Movie
Mystery Liner
1934 · Movie
Two Alone
1934 · Movie
Blind Adventure
1933 · Movie
Made on Broadway
1933 · Movie
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931 · Movie
The Ship from Shanghai
1930 · Movie
The Single Standard
1929 · Movie
The Night of Love
1927 · Movie
Another Scandal
1924 · Movie
Camille
1921 · Movie
Big Game
1921 · Movie
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921 · Movie
Clothes
1920 · Movie
Mothers of Men
1920 · Movie
A Society Exile
1919 · Movie
The Avalanche
1919 · Movie
Blind Man's Luck
1917 · Movie