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