Zeffie Tilbury

Known for ActingBorn 1863-11-18Died 1950-07-24Paddington, London, England, UK

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.Read more

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Old Hutch

Big Game

MGM Parade

Comin' Round the Mountain

Clothes

A Society Exile

Federal Bullets

Ocean Swells

Another Scandal

The Marriage of William Ashe

The Grapes of Wrath

She Couldn't Say No

Rhythm in the Clouds

Bad Boy

Second Childhood

Two Alone

After the Thin Man

Sheriff of Tombstone

The White Angel

Emergency Squad

Woman Against Woman

Desire

Vamp Till Ready

Camille

Parole!

Made on Broadway

Charlie Chan Carries On

The Night of Love

Tobacco Road

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The Ship from Shanghai

Alice Adams

Marie Antoinette

Lady of the Tropics

Bachelor Bait

It Happened in Hollywood

The Story of Alexander Graham Bell

The Earl of Chicago

Public Hero Number 1

Midnight Taxi

Bulldog Drummond Comes Back

Blind Adventure

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Bohemian Girl

Maid of Salem

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Werewolf of London

Boy Trouble