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.
Acted in 70
1940s
- 1942
Flying with Music
Fortune Teller
- 1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
Granny Carson
- 1940
She Couldn't Say No
Ma Hawkins
Comin' Round the Mountain
Granny Stokes
Emergency Squad
Mrs. Cobb
1930s
- 1939
Balalaika
Natalya Petrovna
Lady of the Tropics
Woman Congratulating Manon
Tell No Tales
Miss Mary
Boy Trouble
Mrs. Jepson
- 1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Aunt Meg
Woman Against Woman
Grandma
Hunted Men
Flower Woman
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Mrs. Weevens
- 1937
Federal Bullets
Mrs. Crippen
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
Under Cover of Night
Mrs. Nash
- 1936
After the Thin Man
Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Old Hutch
Elderly Woman in Bank
Give Me Your Heart
Esther Warren
The Gorgeous Hussy
Mrs. Daniel Beall
The White Angel
Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Parole!
Molly Smith
Second Childhood
Grandma
Vamp Till Ready
Woman
- 1935
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)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Opium Woman
Women Must Dress
Peg Martin
- 1934
Bachelor Bait
Miss Turner (uncredited)
Mystery Liner
Granny Plimpton
Two Alone
Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
- 1933
Blind Adventure
Movie
Made on Broadway
Aunt Ada
- 1931
Charlie Chan Carries On
Mrs. Luce
- 1930
The Ship from Shanghai
Lady Daley
1920s
- 1929
The Single Standard
Mrs. Handley
- 1927
The Night of Love
Lady in Waiting
- 1924
Another Scandal
Brownie
- 1921
Big Game
Aunt Sarah Winthrop
The Marriage of William Ashe
Lady Tranmore
- 1920
Clothes
Mrs. Cathcart
Mothers of Men
Mrs. De La Motte
1910s
- 1919
A Society Exile
Mrs. Stanley Shelby
The Avalanche
Mrs. Ruyler
- 1917
Blind Man's Luck
Mrs. Guerton
Appearances1
1950s
- 1955
