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
Grandma Joad
The Grapes of Wrath
Mrs. Moncaster
Werewolf of London
Aunt Meg
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Zeffie
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Drunk in Jail Cell
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Grandma Lester
Tobacco Road
Mrs. Sanders
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Opium Woman
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Aunt Olga
Desire
Mrs. Handley
The Single Standard
Mrs. Daniel Beall
The Gorgeous Hussy
Mrs. Weevens
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
The Duchess de Lovely
Rhythm in the Clouds
Ma Hawkins
She Couldn't Say No
Mrs. Stanley Shelby
A Society Exile
Mrs. Ruyler
The Avalanche
Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
The King Without a Crown
Grandma
The Fuller Gush Man
Mrs. Jepson
Boy Trouble
Lady Daley
The Ship from Shanghai
Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Alice Adams
Peg Martin
Women Must Dress
Mrs. De La Motte
Mothers of Men
Miss Gordon
It Happened in Hollywood
Prudence
Camille
Grandma
Woman Against Woman
Miss Mary
Tell No Tales
Esther Warren
Give Me Your Heart
Mrs. Lane
Midnight Taxi
Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
The White Angel
Auntie
Ocean Swells
Woman Congratulating Manon
Lady of the Tropics
Natalya Petrovna
Balalaika
Mrs. Luce
Charlie Chan Carries On
Mrs. Beamish
Hideaway
Old Woman
Kidnapped
Goody Hodgers
Maid of Salem
Miss Nana (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago
Mrs. Cobb
Emergency Squad
Mrs. Crippen
Federal Bullets
Grandma
Grandma's Buoys
Granny Plimpton
Mystery Liner
Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Two Alone
Granny Carson
Sheriff of Tombstone
Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
After the Thin Man
Mrs. Nash
Under Cover of Night
Bridge Player
Navy Wife
Old Hag (uncredited)
Stranded
The Wise Woman (uncredited)
The Last Days of Pompeii
Miss Turner (uncredited)
Bachelor Bait
Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette
Woman
Vamp Till Ready
Grandma
Second Childhood
Brownie
Another Scandal
Fortune Teller
Flying with Music
Granny Stokes
Comin' Round the Mountain
Flower Woman
Hunted Men
Old Lady
Parnell
Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Camille
Elderly Woman in Bank
Old Hutch
Molly Smith
Parole!
Old Woman at Chalet
Anthony Adverse
Gypsy Queen
The Bohemian Girl
Deaf Woman
Bad Boy
Old Townswoman
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Blind Adventure
Aunt Ada
Made on Broadway
Lady in Waiting
The Night of Love
Aunt Sarah Winthrop
Big Game
Lady Tranmore
The Marriage of William Ashe
Mrs. Cathcart
Clothes
Mrs. Guerton
Blind Man's Luck
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
73
Gender
Female
Birthday
1863-11-18
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury