Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
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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.
Filmography
MGM Parade
1955
Flying with Music
1942
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941
Tobacco Road
1941
She Couldn't Say No
1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
1940
Emergency Squad
1940
The Earl of Chicago
1940
Balalaika
1939
Lady of the Tropics
1939
Tell No Tales
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939
Boy Trouble
1939
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
Marie Antoinette
1938
Woman Against Woman
1938
Kidnapped
1938
Hunted Men
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938
Federal Bullets
1937
The King Without a Crown
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
1937
Hideaway
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937
Parnell
1937
Midnight Taxi
1937
Maid of Salem
1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937
Under Cover of Night
1937
Camille
1936
After the Thin Man
1936
Grandma's Buoys
1936
Old Hutch
1936
Give Me Your Heart
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
Anthony Adverse
1936
The White Angel
1936
Parole!
1936
Desire
1936
Second Childhood
1936
Vamp Till Ready
1936
The Bohemian Girl
1936
Bad Boy
1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
Navy Wife
1935
Alice Adams
1935
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935
Stranded
1935
Public Hero Number 1
1935
Werewolf of London
1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935
Women Must Dress
1935
The Fuller Gush Man
1934
Ocean Swells
1934
Bachelor Bait
1934
Mystery Liner
1934
Two Alone
1934
Blind Adventure
1933
Made on Broadway
1933
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931
The Ship from Shanghai
1930
The Single Standard
1929
The Night of Love
1927
Another Scandal
1924
Camille
1921
Big Game
1921
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921
Clothes
1920
Mothers of Men
1920
A Society Exile
1919
The Avalanche
1919
Blind Man's Luck
1917