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Zeffie Tilbury

Zeffie Tilbury

Actor · 1863 – 1950 · Paddington, London, England, UK

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.

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  • Movie7.8

    The Grapes of Wrath

    1940 · 1.1K votes

  • Movie7.0

    Camille

    1936 · 157 votes

  • Movie7.3

    After the Thin Man

    1936 · 206 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Desire

    1936 · 54 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Marie Antoinette

    1938 · 37 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Bohemian Girl

    1936 · 61 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Camille

    1921 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.8

    Tobacco Road

    1941 · 61 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Werewolf of London

    1935 · 155 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Lady of the Tropics

    1939 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Alice Adams

    1935 · 64 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie6.2

    The Farmer Takes a Wife

    1935 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Public Hero Number 1

    1935 · 9 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Earl of Chicago

    1940 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Bachelor Bait

    1934 · 4 votes

  • Movie4.6

    Parnell

    1937 · 9 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Anthony Adverse

    1936 · 37 votes

  • Movie7.5

    She Couldn't Say No

    1940 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.3

    It Happened in Hollywood

    1937 · 15 votes

  • Movie5.8

    The Last Days of Pompeii

    1935 · 25 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Midnight Taxi

    1937 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Under Cover of Night

    1937 · 4 votes

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  • TV7.5

    MGM Parade

    1955 · 2 votes