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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.
Zeffie Tilbury Biography / Wiki
| Name | Zeffie Tilbury |
| Also Know | Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Paddington, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | November 20, 1863 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1950-07-24 |
Zeffie Tilbury Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Federal Bullets | Mrs. Crippen | 1937-10-29 | Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Har… |
| Vamp Till Ready | Woman | 1936-03-28 | Charley’s somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl…. |
| Rhythm in the Clouds | The Duchess de Lovely | 1937-06-21 | Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio…. |
| Grandma’s Buoys | Grandma | 1936-12-18 | Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barfl… |
| The Avalanche | Mrs. Ruyler | 1919-06-29 | A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies…. |
| Women Must Dress | Peg Martin | 1935-02-01 | A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer…. |
| Camille | Prudence | 1921-09-26 | Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand’s father begs her not to ruin his hop… |
| The King Without a Crown | Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited) | 1937-10-09 | This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was ra… |
| The Ship from Shanghai | Lady Daley | 1930-01-31 | On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control…. |
| A Society Exile | Mrs. Stanley Shelby | 1919-10-07 | Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a murder-suicid… |
| Arrest Bulldog Drummond | Aunt Meg | 1938-11-25 | The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond…. |
| The Mystery of Edwin Drood | The Opium Woman | 1935-02-04 | A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her…. |
| Woman Against Woman | Grandma | 1938-06-24 | A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband’s scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home…. |
| Tell No Tales | Miss Mary | 1939-06-12 | A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication…. |
| Mystery Liner | Granny Plimpton | 1934-03-15 | Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner…. |
| Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Zeffie | 1937-09-24 | Drummond’s girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r… |
| Desire | Aunt Olga | 1936-04-11 | Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses US engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France. But g… |
| The Single Standard | Mrs. Handley | 1929-07-27 | A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist…. |
| Under Cover of Night | Mrs. Nash | 1937-01-08 | A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife’s research, then killed her…. |
| Mothers of Men | Mrs. De La Motte | 1920-03-10 | Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prussian officer Captain Von Pfaffen, she flees to the… |
| She Couldn’t Say No | Ma Hawkins | 1940-12-07 | Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the oddball and very shrewd characters in a small town…. |
| Boy Trouble | Mrs. Jepson | 1939-01-27 | A fussy shopkeeper’s life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys…. |
| Give Me Your Heart | Esther Warren | 1936-09-17 | An American lawyer’s wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman…. |
| Sheriff of Tombstone | Granny Carson | 1941-05-07 | The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor’s means of taking the town over. When Roy an… |
| The Grapes of Wrath | Grandma Joad | 1940-03-15 | Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl… |
| Tobacco Road | Grandma Lester | 1941-02-20 | Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe… |
| Werewolf of London | Mrs. Moncaster | 1935-05-13 | A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster…. |
| Bulldog Drummond’s Peril | Mrs. Weevens | 1938-03-18 | Drummond’s wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the myste… |
| Alice Adams | Mrs. Dresser (uncredited) | 1935-08-23 | In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climb… |
| It Happened in Hollywood | Miss Gordon | 1937-09-07 | A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound…. |
| Navy Wife | Bridge Player | 1935-09-17 | A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter…. |
| The Last Days of Pompeii | The Wise Woman | 1935-10-18 | In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by … |
| Charlie Chan Carries On | Mrs. Luce | 1931-04-11 | Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Ko… |
| Hideaway | Mrs. Beamish | 1937-08-13 | A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they’re visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out…. |
| Two Alone | Rogers’ Neighbor (uncredited) | 1934-01-26 | Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they… |
| The Gorgeous Hussy | Mrs. Daniel Beall | 1936-08-28 | It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O’Neal, who i… |
| Balalaika | Natalya Petrovna | 1939-12-15 | A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love…. |
| The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Mrs. Sanders | 1939-04-04 | Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice. … |
| Maid of Salem | Goody Hodgers | 1937-02-12 | When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachuse… |
| After the Thin Man | Aunt Lucy (uncredited) | 1936-12-25 | Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora’s cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady… |
| Bulldog Drummond Escapes | Drunk in Jail Cell | 1937-01-22 | Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a … |
| Bachelor Bait | Miss Turner (uncredited) | 1934-07-27 | After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking…. |
| Lady of the Tropics | Woman Congratulating Manon | 1939-08-11 | Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier…. |
| Midnight Taxi | Mrs. Lane | 1937-04-04 | A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters…. |
| Emergency Squad | Mrs. Cobb | 1940-01-05 | Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, ca… |
| Public Hero Number 1 | Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited) | 1935-05-31 | G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb… |
| Stranded | Old Hag (uncredited) | 1935-06-29 | A Traveler’s Aid worker who delights in solving people’s problems gets mixed up with gangsters…. |
| The Earl of Chicago | Miss Nana (uncredited) | 1940-01-05 | A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley…. |
| Kidnapped | Old Woman | 1938-05-27 | Robert Louis Stevenson’s hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland…. |
| The White Angel | Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited) | 1936-06-25 | In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness. Flore… |
| Marie Antoinette | Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 | The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv… |
Credit: TMDB
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