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