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