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