Zeffie Tilbury
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1863-11-18
Day of Death
1950-07-24 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Zeffie Tilbury
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.
Known For
Acting
(1942)
Flying with Music
as Fortune Teller
(1941)
Tobacco Road
as Grandma Lester
(1941)
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny Carson
(1940)
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma Joad
(1940)
Emergency Squad
as Mrs. Cobb
(1940)
The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
(1940)
She Couldn't Say No
as Ma Hawkins
(1940)
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny Stokes
(1939)
Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating Manon
(1939)
Balalaika
as Natalya Petrovna
(1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. Sanders
(1939)
Tell No Tales
as Miss Mary
(1939)
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Jepson
(1938)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Mrs. Weevens
(1938)
Marie Antoinette
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
(1938)
Kidnapped
as Old Woman
(1938)
Woman Against Woman
as Grandma
(1938)
Hunted Men
as Flower Woman
(1938)
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Aunt Meg
(1937)
Maid of Salem
as Goody Hodgers
(1937)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Drunk in Jail Cell
(1937)
Midnight Taxi
as Mrs. Lane
(1937)
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Zeffie
(1937)
Parnell
as Old Lady
(1937)
Under Cover of Night
as Mrs. Nash
(1937)
Hideaway
as Mrs. Beamish
(1937)
It Happened in Hollywood
as Miss Gordon
(1937)
Rhythm in the Clouds
as The Duchess de Lovely
(1937)
The King Without a Crown
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
(1937)
Federal Bullets
as Mrs. Crippen
(1936)
After the Thin Man
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
(1936)
Camille
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
(1936)
Anthony Adverse
as Old Woman at Chalet
(1936)
Desire
as Aunt Olga
(1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
(1936)
The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy Queen
(1936)
The White Angel
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
(1936)
Parole!
as Molly Smith
(1936)
Second Childhood
as Grandma
(1936)
Old Hutch
as Elderly Woman in Bank
(1936)
Give Me Your Heart
as Esther Warren
(1936)
Grandma's Buoys
as Grandma
(1936)
Vamp Till Ready
as Woman
(1935)
The Last Days of Pompeii
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
(1935)
Werewolf of London
as Mrs. Moncaster
(1935)
Alice Adams
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
(1935)
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Old Townswoman
(1935)
Bad Boy
as Deaf Woman
(1935)
Navy Wife
as Bridge Player
(1935)
Stranded
as Old Hag (uncredited)
(1935)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as The Opium Woman
(1935)
Public Hero Number 1
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
(1935)
Women Must Dress
as Peg Martin
(1934)
Mystery Liner
as Granny Plimpton
(1934)
Two Alone
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
(1934)
Bachelor Bait
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
(1934)
The Fuller Gush Man
as Grandma
(1934)
Ocean Swells
as Auntie
(1933)
Made on Broadway
as Aunt Ada
(1933)
(1931)
Charlie Chan Carries On
as Mrs. Luce
(1930)
The Ship from Shanghai
as Lady Daley
(1929)
The Single Standard
as Mrs. Handley
(1927)
The Night of Love
as Lady in Waiting
(1924)
Another Scandal
as Brownie
(1921)
Camille
as Prudence
(1921)
Big Game
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
(1921)
The Marriage of William Ashe
as Lady Tranmore
(1920)
Clothes
as Mrs. Cathcart
(1920)
Mothers of Men
as Mrs. De La Motte
(1919)
A Society Exile
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
(1919)
The Avalanche
as Mrs. Ruyler
(1917)
Blind Man's Luck
as Mrs. Guerton