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Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (November 20, 1863 β 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
all 56
Movies 56
Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
She Couldn't Say No (1940)
The Earl of Chicago (1940)
Emergency Squad (1940)
Balalaika (1939)
Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Tell No Tales (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Boy Trouble (1939)
Marie Antoinette (1938)
Block-Heads (1938)
Kidnapped (1938)
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
Federal Bullets (1937)
The King Without a Crown (1937)
It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
Hideaway (1937)
Rhythm in the Clouds (1937)
Midnight Taxi (1937)
Maid of Salem (1937)
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Under Cover of Night (1937)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Grandma's Buoys (1936)
Give Me Your Heart (1936)
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
The White Angel (1936)
Second Childhood (1936)
Desire (1936)
Vamp Till Ready (1936)
The Bohemian Girl (1936)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Navy Wife (1935)
Alice Adams (1935)
Stranded (1935)
Public Hero Number 1 (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
Women Must Dress (1935)
Ocean Swells (1934)
Bachelor Bait (1934)
Mystery Liner (1934)
Two Alone (1934)
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
The Ship from Shanghai (1930)
The Single Standard (1929)
Camille (1921)
Mothers of Men (1920)
A Society Exile (1919)
The Avalanche (1919)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1863-11-18
Deathday1950-07-24 (86 years old)
Birth PlacePaddington, London, England, UK
Height
MotherLydia Thompson
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsZeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury
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