Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
Born 1863-11-18
Died 1950-07-24
Paddington, London, England, UK
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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.
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Acting
59 credits
MGM Parade
The Grapes of Wrath
Desire
Werewolf of London
Camille
Marie Antoinette
After the Thin Man
Bachelor Bait
Camille
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Tobacco Road
Parnell
The Gorgeous Hussy
Balalaika
Midnight Taxi
The White Angel
Parole!
Alice Adams
Clothes
Public Hero Number 1
Hunted Men
Big Game
Lady of the Tropics
The Bohemian Girl
Kidnapped
Emergency Squad
Tell No Tales
Anthony Adverse
Made on Broadway
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Another Scandal
The Last Days of Pompeii
Under Cover of Night
Bad Boy
It Happened in Hollywood
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Maid of Salem
The Earl of Chicago
Two Alone
Ocean Swells
She Couldn't Say No
The Single Standard
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Stranded
Give Me Your Heart
Flying with Music
Rhythm in the Clouds
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Women Must Dress
Mothers of Men
Mystery Liner
The King Without a Crown
Charlie Chan Carries On
Grandma's Buoys
Woman Against Woman
Hideaway
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Boy Trouble
The Ship from Shanghai
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