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.
74 acting credits
Acting · 74
MGM Parade
1955
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Camille
1936
Tobacco Road
1941
Werewolf of London
1935
Marie Antoinette
1938
After the Thin Man
1936
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
Desire
1936
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Parole!
1936
Alice Adams
1935
The Bohemian Girl
1936
Balalaika
1939
Boy Trouble
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937
Stranded
1935
Blind Adventure
1933
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Midnight Taxi
1937
The White Angel
1936
Bad Boy
1935
Emergency Squad
1940
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
Kidnapped
1938
Maid of Salem
1937
Woman Against Woman
1938
Under Cover of Night
1937
Parnell
1937
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
The Ship from Shanghai
1930
Two Alone
1934
Hideaway
1937
The Earl of Chicago
1940
Hunted Men
1938
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Camille
1921
Anthony Adverse
1936
Bachelor Bait
1934
The Night of Love
1927
She Couldn't Say No
1940
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
The King Without a Crown
1937
Public Hero Number 1
1935
Second Childhood
1936
Made on Broadway
1933
Navy Wife
1935
Tell No Tales
1939
Mystery Liner
1934
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
Flying with Music
1942
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931
The Single Standard
1929
Give Me Your Heart
1936
Ocean Swells
1934
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
Another Scandal
1924
Grandma's Buoys
1936
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
Federal Bullets
1937
The Avalanche
1919
Mothers of Men
1920
Women Must Dress
1935
Old Hutch
1936
Clothes
1920
Big Game
1921
The Fuller Gush Man
1934
Blind Man's Luck
1917
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921
A Society Exile
1919
Vamp Till Ready
1936