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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 18, 1863
Died
July 24, 1950
Place of Birth
Paddington, London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury
- Zeffie Tilsbury
Zeffie Tilbury
0.3 Popularity
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
3.5
Fortune Teller
Flying with Music
1942
6.8
Granny Carson
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
6.6
Grandma Lester
Tobacco Road
1941
6.8
Ma Hawkins
She Couldn't Say No
1940
0.0
Granny Stokes
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
7.8
Grandma Joad
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
5.6
Miss Nana (uncredited)
The Earl of Chicago
1940
5.0
Mrs. Cobb
Emergency Squad
1940
4.4
Natalya Petrovna
Balalaika
1939
6.1
Woman Congratulating Manon
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Credits
Flying with Music
as Fortune Teller
1942
3.5
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny Carson
1941
6.8
Tobacco Road
as Grandma Lester
1941
6.6
She Couldn't Say No
as Ma Hawkins
1940
6.8
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny Stokes
1940
0.0
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma Joad
1940
7.8
The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
1940
5.6
Emergency Squad
as Mrs. Cobb
1940
5.0
Balalaika
as Natalya Petrovna
1939
4.4
Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating Manon
1939
6.1
Tell No Tales
as Miss Mary
1939
4.6
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. Sanders
1939
6.0
Boy Trouble
as Mrs. Jepson
1939
5.0
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Aunt Meg
1938
6.6
Marie Antoinette
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
1938
6.5
Woman Against Woman
as Grandma
1938
6.5
Kidnapped
as Old Woman
1938
4.7
Hunted Men
as Flower Woman
1938
6.0
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Mrs. Weevens
1938
5.7
Federal Bullets
as Mrs. Crippen
1937
0.0
The King Without a Crown
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
1937
5.5
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as Zeffie
1937
6.1
It Happened in Hollywood
as Miss Gordon
1937
6.1
Hideaway
as Mrs. Beamish
1937
4.0
Rhythm in the Clouds
as The Duchess de Lovely
1937
5.0
Parnell
as Old Lady
1937
4.1
Midnight Taxi
as Mrs. Lane
1937
5.0
Maid of Salem
as Goody Hodgers
1937
5.9
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Drunk in Jail Cell
1937
5.9
Under Cover of Night
as Mrs. Nash
1937
5.7
Camille
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
1936
6.9
After the Thin Man
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
1936
7.3
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Grandma's Buoys
as Grandma
1936
0.0
Old Hutch
as Elderly Woman in Bank
1936
0.0
Give Me Your Heart
as Esther Warren
1936
5.3
The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
1936
5.3
Anthony Adverse
as Old Woman at Chalet
1936
5.7
The White Angel
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
1936
7.2
Parole!
as Molly Smith
1936
6.0
Desire
as Aunt Olga
1936
6.9
Second Childhood
as Grandma
1936
7.0
Vamp Till Ready
as Woman
1936
0.0
The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy Queen
1936
6.2
Bad Boy
as Deaf Woman
1935
5.0
The Last Days of Pompeii
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
1935
5.6
Navy Wife
as Bridge Player
1935
5.0
Alice Adams
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
1935
6.6
The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Old Townswoman
1935
6.1
Stranded
as Old Hag (uncredited)
1935
5.8
Public Hero Number 1
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
1935
6.2
Werewolf of London
as Mrs. Moncaster
1935
6.0
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as The Opium Woman
1935
5.6
Women Must Dress
as Peg Martin
1935
2.3
🎬
The Fuller Gush Man
as Grandma
1934
0.0
🎬
Ocean Swells
as Auntie
1934
0.0
Bachelor Bait
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
1934
5.7
Mystery Liner
as Granny Plimpton
1934
4.1
Two Alone
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
1934
7.0
Blind Adventure
1933
5.5
Made on Broadway
as Aunt Ada
1933
6.5
Charlie Chan Carries On
as Mrs. Luce
1931
6.5
The Ship from Shanghai
as Lady Daley
1930
5.7
The Single Standard
as Mrs. Handley
1929
5.5
The Night of Love
as Lady in Waiting
1927
5.0
Another Scandal
as Brownie
1924
0.0
Camille
as Prudence
1921
5.5
Big Game
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
1921
0.0
The Marriage of William Ashe
as Lady Tranmore
1921
0.0
Clothes
as Mrs. Cathcart
1920
0.0
Mothers of Men
as Mrs. De La Motte
1920
5.0
A Society Exile
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
1919
0.0
The Avalanche
as Mrs. Ruyler
1919
0.0
Blind Man's Luck
as Mrs. Guerton
1917
0.0