Cast
Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
Cast
Zeffie Tilbury
Known for
Acting
Born
1863-11-18
From
Paddington, London, England, UK
Died
1950-07-24
Also known as Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury
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.
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Desire
as Aunt Olga
★7.8
MOVIE1940
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma Joad
★6.5
MOVIE1934
Bachelor Bait
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
★4.6
MOVIE1937
Parnell
as Old Lady
★5.7
MOVIE1921
Camille
as Prudence
★7.3
MOVIE1936
After the Thin Man
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
★6.9
MOVIE1936
Camille
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
★6.6
MOVIE1938
Marie Antoinette
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
★6.1
MOVIE1935
Werewolf of London
as Mrs. Moncaster
★6.3
MOVIE1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. Sanders
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Parole!
as Molly Smith
★6.7
MOVIE1935
Alice Adams
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as The Opium Woman
★6.5
MOVIE1939
Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating Manon
★9.0
MOVIE1920
Clothes
as Mrs. Cathcart
★6.8
MOVIE1941
Tobacco Road
as Grandma Lester
★6.1
MOVIE1936
The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy Queen
★5.3
MOVIE1939
Balalaika
as Natalya Petrovna
★5.9
MOVIE1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Mrs. Weevens
★5.7
MOVIE1936
Anthony Adverse
as Old Woman at Chalet
★5.9
MOVIE1929
The Single Standard
as Mrs. Handley
★6.3
MOVIE1940
The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
★4.7
MOVIE1934
Mystery Liner
as Granny Plimpton
★6.3
MOVIE1935
Public Hero Number 1
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
★6.8
MOVIE1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Aunt Meg
★7.2
MOVIE1936
The White Angel
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
★7.0
MOVIE1936
Vamp Till Ready
as Woman
★5.8
MOVIE1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
★5.4
MOVIE1939
Tell No Tales
as Miss Mary
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Maid of Salem
as Goody Hodgers
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Under Cover of Night
as Mrs. Nash
★6.2
MOVIE1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Old Townswoman
★7.2
MOVIE1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny Carson
MOVIE1936
Grandma's Buoys
as Grandma
★6.1
MOVIE1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Drunk in Jail Cell
★4.4
MOVIE1942
Flying with Music
as Fortune Teller
★10.0
MOVIE1921
Big Game
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
★3.5
MOVIE1935
Women Must Dress
as Peg Martin
★6.0
MOVIE1938
Kidnapped
as Old Woman
★7.0
MOVIE1940
Emergency Squad
as Mrs. Cobb
★6.3
MOVIE1933
Blind Adventure
★7.0
MOVIE1931
Charlie Chan Carries On
as Mrs. Luce
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Zeffie
★7.3
MOVIE1934
Two Alone
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE1937
It Happened in Hollywood
as Miss Gordon
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Ocean Swells
as Auntie
★7.0
MOVIE1938
Woman Against Woman
as Grandma
★9.0
MOVIE1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny Stokes
★8.0
MOVIE1924
Another Scandal
as Brownie
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Stranded
as Old Hag (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE1936
Give Me Your Heart
as Esther Warren
★5.6
MOVIE1937
The King Without a Crown
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
★6.0
MOVIE1939
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Jepson
★7.0
MOVIE1933
Made on Broadway
as Aunt Ada
★5.7
MOVIE1938
Hunted Men
as Flower Woman
★6.2
MOVIE1937
Midnight Taxi
as Mrs. Lane
★8.0
MOVIE1937
Federal Bullets
as Mrs. Crippen
★7.5
MOVIE1940
She Couldn't Say No
as Ma Hawkins
★7.0
MOVIE1927
The Night of Love
as Lady in Waiting
★6.8
MOVIE1930
The Ship from Shanghai
as Lady Daley
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Navy Wife
as Bridge Player
MOVIE1917
Blind Man's Luck
as Mrs. Guerton
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
as The Duchess de Lovely
★7.5
MOVIE1935
Bad Boy
as Deaf Woman
★8.0
MOVIE1921
The Marriage of William Ashe
as Lady Tranmore
★10.0
MOVIE1936
Old Hutch
as Elderly Woman in Bank
★7.3
MOVIE1936
Second Childhood
as Grandma
MOVIE1934
The Fuller Gush Man
as Grandma
MOVIE1919
The Avalanche
as Mrs. Ruyler
★6.0
MOVIE1937
Hideaway
as Mrs. Beamish
★6.0
MOVIE1920
Mothers of Men
as Mrs. De La Motte
★9.0
MOVIE1919
A Society Exile
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby