MGM Parade
1955 · TV Show
as Self
Zeffie Tilbury
1863-11-18
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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 · Movie
as Fortune Teller
Tobacco Road
1941 · Movie
as Grandma Lester
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941 · Movie
as Granny Carson
The Grapes of Wrath
1940 · Movie
as Grandma Joad
She Couldn't Say No
1940 · Movie
as Ma Hawkins
Emergency Squad
1940 · Movie
as Mrs. Cobb
The Earl of Chicago
1940 · Movie
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940 · Movie
as Granny Stokes
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Sanders
Boy Trouble
1939 · Movie
as Mrs. Jepson
Tell No Tales
1939 · Movie
as Miss Mary
Lady of the Tropics
1939 · Movie
as Woman Congratulating Manon
Balalaika
1939 · Movie
as Natalya Petrovna
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938 · Movie
as Aunt Meg
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938 · Movie
as Mrs. Weevens
Woman Against Woman
1938 · Movie
as Grandma
Kidnapped
1938 · Movie
as Old Woman
Marie Antoinette
1938 · Movie
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Hunted Men
1938 · Movie
as Flower Woman
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937 · Movie
as Zeffie
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937 · Movie
as Drunk in Jail Cell
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937 · Movie
as The Duchess de Lovely
The King Without a Crown
1937 · Movie
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
It Happened in Hollywood
1937 · Movie
as Miss Gordon
Midnight Taxi
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Lane
Hideaway
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Beamish
Maid of Salem
1937 · Movie
as Goody Hodgers
Federal Bullets
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Crippen
Under Cover of Night
1937 · Movie
as Mrs. Nash
Parnell
1937 · Movie
as Old Lady
Desire
1936 · Movie
as Aunt Olga
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936 · Movie
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
Give Me Your Heart
1936 · Movie
as Esther Warren
The White Angel
1936 · Movie
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
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Grandma's Buoys
1936 · Movie
as Grandma
After the Thin Man
1936 · Movie
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Vamp Till Ready
1936 · Movie
as Woman
Second Childhood
1936 · Movie
as Grandma
Camille
1936 · Movie
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Old Hutch
1936 · Movie
as Elderly Woman in Bank
Parole!
1936 · Movie
as Molly Smith
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Movie
as Old Woman at Chalet
The Bohemian Girl
1936 · Movie
as Gypsy Queen
Werewolf of London
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Moncaster
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935 · Movie
as The Opium Woman
Alice Adams
1935 · Movie
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Women Must Dress
1935 · Movie
as Peg Martin
Navy Wife
1935 · Movie
as Bridge Player
Stranded
1935 · Movie
as Old Hag (uncredited)
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935 · Movie
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
1935 · Movie
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Bad Boy
1935 · Movie
as Deaf Woman
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935 · Movie
as Old Townswoman
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The Fuller Gush Man
1934 · Movie
as Grandma
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Ocean Swells
1934 · Movie
as Auntie
Mystery Liner
1934 · Movie
as Granny Plimpton
Two Alone
1934 · Movie
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
1934 · Movie
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
Blind Adventure
1933 · Movie
Made on Broadway
1933 · Movie
as Aunt Ada
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931 · Movie
as Mrs. Luce
The Ship from Shanghai
1930 · Movie
as Lady Daley
The Single Standard
1929 · Movie
as Mrs. Handley
The Night of Love
1927 · Movie
as Lady in Waiting
Another Scandal
1924 · Movie
as Brownie
Camille
1921 · Movie
as Prudence
Big Game
1921 · Movie
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921 · Movie
as Lady Tranmore
Mothers of Men
1920 · Movie
as Mrs. De La Motte
Clothes
1920 · Movie
as Mrs. Cathcart
The Avalanche
1919 · Movie
as Mrs. Ruyler
A Society Exile
1919 · Movie
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Blind Man's Luck
1917 · Movie
as Mrs. Guerton
