Zeffie Tilbury
Age: 86 | From: Paddington, London, England, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1863-11-20 02:15:38
Death: 1950-07-24 02:15:38
Aliases: Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury , Zeffie Tilsbury
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
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Movie Involvements: 38
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
The Grapes of Wrath
(1940) Grandma Joad
Werewolf of London
(1935) Mrs. Moncaster
Marie Antoinette
(1938) Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
(1939) Mrs. Sanders
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
(1937) Zeffie
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(1935) The Opium Woman
The Last Days of Pompeii
(1935) The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Public Hero Number 1
(1935) Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1941 | Granny Carson | |
| Grandma Lester | ||
| 1940 | Ma Hawkins | |
| Grandma Joad | ||
| Miss Nana (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Cobb | ||
| 1939 | Natalya Petrovna | |
| Woman Congratulating Manon | ||
| Miss Mary | ||
| Mrs. Sanders | ||
| Mrs. Jepson | ||
| 1938 | Aunt Meg | |
| Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited) | ||
| Grandma | ||
| Old Woman | ||
| Mrs. Weevens | ||
| 1937 | Mrs. Crippen | |
| Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited) | ||
| Zeffie | ||
| Miss Gordon | ||
| Mrs. Beamish | ||
| The Duchess de Lovely | ||
| Mrs. Lane | ||
| Goody Hodgers | ||
| Drunk in Jail Cell | ||
| Mrs. Nash | ||
| 1936 | Aunt Lucy (uncredited) | |
| Grandma | ||
| Esther Warren | ||
| Mrs. Daniel Beall | ||
| Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited) | ||
| Aunt Olga | ||
| Woman | ||
| 1935 | The Wise Woman (uncredited) | |
| Bridge Player | ||
| Mrs. Dresser (uncredited) | ||
| Old Hag (uncredited) | ||
| Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited) | ||
| Mrs. Moncaster | ||
| The Opium Woman | ||
| Peg Martin | ||
| 1934 | Grandma | |
| Miss Turner (uncredited) | ||
| Granny Plimpton | ||
| Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited) | ||
| 1931 | Mrs. Luce | |
| 1930 | Lady Daley | |
| 1929 | Mrs. Handley | |
| 1921 | Prudence | |
| 1920 | Mrs. De La Motte | |
| 1919 | Mrs. Stanley Shelby | |
| Mrs. Ruyler | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
