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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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Filmography (Movies)
Flying with Music
Character:Fortune Teller
Release Date:22/05/1942
Sheriff of Tombstone
Character:Granny Carson
Release Date:07/05/1941
Tobacco Road
Character:Grandma Lester
Release Date:20/02/1941
She Couldn't Say No
Character:Ma Hawkins
Release Date:07/12/1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
Character:Granny Stokes
Release Date:16/08/1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Character:Grandma Joad
Release Date:15/03/1940
The Earl of Chicago
Character:Miss Nana (uncredited)
Release Date:05/01/1940
Emergency Squad
Character:Mrs. Cobb
Release Date:05/01/1940
Balalaika
Character:Natalya Petrovna
Release Date:15/12/1939
Lady of the Tropics
Character:Woman Congratulating Manon
Release Date:11/08/1939
Tell No Tales
Character:Miss Mary
Release Date:12/06/1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Character:Mrs. Sanders
Release Date:04/04/1939
Boy Trouble
Character:Mrs. Jepson
Release Date:27/01/1939
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character:Aunt Meg
Release Date:25/11/1938
Marie Antoinette
Character:Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Release Date:26/08/1938
Woman Against Woman
Character:Grandma
Release Date:24/06/1938
Kidnapped
Character:Old Woman
Release Date:27/05/1938
Hunted Men
Character:Flower Woman
Release Date:27/05/1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Character:Mrs. Weevens
Release Date:18/03/1938
Federal Bullets
Character:Mrs. Crippen
Release Date:29/10/1937
The King Without a Crown
Character:Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
Release Date:09/10/1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Character:Zeffie
Release Date:24/09/1937
It Happened in Hollywood
Character:Miss Gordon
Release Date:07/09/1937
Hideaway
Character:Mrs. Beamish
Release Date:13/08/1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
Character:The Duchess de Lovely
Release Date:21/06/1937
Parnell
Character:Old Lady
Release Date:04/06/1937
Midnight Taxi
Character:Mrs. Lane
Release Date:04/04/1937
Maid of Salem
Character:Goody Hodgers
Release Date:12/02/1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Character:Drunk in Jail Cell
Release Date:22/01/1937
Under Cover of Night
Character:Mrs. Nash
Release Date:08/01/1937
Camille
Character:Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Release Date:26/12/1936
After the Thin Man
Character:Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Release Date:25/12/1936
Grandma's Buoys
Character:Grandma
Release Date:18/12/1936
Old Hutch
Character:Elderly Woman in Bank
Release Date:25/09/1936
Give Me Your Heart
Character:Esther Warren
Release Date:17/09/1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Character:Mrs. Daniel Beall
Release Date:28/08/1936
Anthony Adverse
Character:Old Woman at Chalet
Release Date:26/08/1936
The White Angel
Character:Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Release Date:25/06/1936
Parole!
Character:Molly Smith
Release Date:14/06/1936
Desire
Character:Aunt Olga
Release Date:11/04/1936
Second Childhood
Character:Grandma
Release Date:11/04/1936
Vamp Till Ready
Character:Woman
Release Date:28/03/1936
The Bohemian Girl
Character:Gypsy Queen
Release Date:14/02/1936
Bad Boy
Character:Deaf Woman
Release Date:25/10/1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
Character:The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Release Date:18/10/1935
Navy Wife
Character:Bridge Player
Release Date:17/09/1935
Alice Adams
Character:Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Release Date:23/08/1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Character:Old Townswoman
Release Date:05/07/1935
Stranded
Character:Old Hag (uncredited)
Release Date:29/06/1935
Public Hero Number 1
Character:Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Release Date:31/05/1935
Werewolf of London
Character:Mrs. Moncaster
Release Date:13/05/1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Character:The Opium Woman
Release Date:04/02/1935
Women Must Dress
Character:Peg Martin
Release Date:01/02/1935
The Fuller Gush Man
Character:Grandma
Release Date:16/08/1934
Ocean Swells
Character:Auntie
Release Date:08/08/1934
Bachelor Bait
Character:Miss Turner (uncredited)
Release Date:27/07/1934
Mystery Liner
Character:Granny Plimpton
Release Date:15/03/1934
Two Alone
Character:Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Release Date:26/01/1934
Blind Adventure
Character:
Release Date:18/08/1933
Made on Broadway
Character:Aunt Ada
Release Date:19/05/1933
Charlie Chan Carries On
Character:Mrs. Luce
Release Date:11/04/1931
The Ship from Shanghai
Character:Lady Daley
Release Date:31/01/1930
The Single Standard
Character:Mrs. Handley
Release Date:27/07/1929
The Night of Love
Character:Lady in Waiting
Release Date:22/01/1927
Another Scandal
Character:Brownie
Release Date:22/06/1924
Camille
Character:Prudence
Release Date:26/09/1921
Big Game
Character:Aunt Sarah Winthrop
Release Date:16/08/1921
The Marriage of William Ashe
Character:Lady Tranmore
Release Date:17/01/1921
Clothes
Character:Mrs. Cathcart
Release Date:19/09/1920
Mothers of Men
Character:Mrs. De La Motte
Release Date:10/03/1920
A Society Exile
Character:Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Release Date:07/10/1919
The Avalanche
Character:Mrs. Ruyler
Release Date:29/06/1919
Blind Man's Luck
Character:Mrs. Guerton
Release Date:10/06/1917
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