Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
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.
Born: November 18, 1863
Place of Birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
Known For
Filmography
as Fortune Teller
as Granny Carson
as Grandma Lester
as Ma Hawkins
as Granny Stokes
as Grandma Joad
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
as Mrs. Cobb
as Natalya Petrovna
as Woman Congratulating Manon
as Miss Mary
as Mrs. Sanders
as Mrs. Jepson
as Aunt Meg
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
as Grandma
as Flower Woman
as Old Woman
as Mrs. Weevens
as Mrs. Crippen
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
as Zeffie
as Miss Gordon
as Mrs. Beamish
as The Duchess de Lovely
as Old Lady
as Mrs. Lane
as Goody Hodgers
as Drunk in Jail Cell
as Mrs. Nash
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
as Elderly Woman in Bank
as Esther Warren
as Mrs. Daniel Beall
as Old Woman at Chalet
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
as Molly Smith
as Grandma
as Aunt Olga
as Woman
as Gypsy Queen
as Deaf Woman
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)
as Bridge Player
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
as Old Townswoman
as Old Hag (uncredited)
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
as Mrs. Moncaster
as The Opium Woman
as Peg Martin
as Miss Turner (uncredited)
as Granny Plimpton
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
as Aunt Ada
as Mrs. Luce
as Lady Daley
as Mrs. Handley
as Lady in Waiting
as Brownie
as Prudence
as Aunt Sarah Winthrop
as Lady Tranmore
as Mrs. Cathcart
as Mrs. De La Motte
as Mrs. Stanley Shelby
as Mrs. Ruyler
as Mrs. Guerton