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