The Grapes of Wrath1940
As Grandma Joad
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Zeffie Tilbury
Born
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 (73)
After the Thin Man1936
As Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Camille1936
As Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Desire1936
As Aunt Olga
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell1939
As Mrs. Sanders
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Marie Antoinette1938
As Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Tobacco Road1941
As Grandma Lester
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Bohemian Girl1936
As Gypsy Queen
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Farmer Takes a Wife1935
As Old Townswoman
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Anthony Adverse1936
As Old Woman at Chalet
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Werewolf of London1935
As Mrs. Moncaster
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Camille1921
As Prudence
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Lady of the Tropics1939
As Woman Congratulating Manon
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Earl of Chicago1940
As Miss Nana (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Alice Adams1935
As Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Mystery of Edwin Drood1935
As The Opium Woman
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Parnell1937
As Old Lady
TMDb 4.6 / 10
The Last Days of Pompeii1935
As The Wise Woman (uncredited)
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Bachelor Bait1934
As Miss Turner (uncredited)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Give Me Your Heart1936
As Esther Warren
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Parole!1936
As Molly Smith
TMDb 7.0 / 10
It Happened in Hollywood1937
As Miss Gordon
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Charlie Chan Carries On1931
As Mrs. Luce
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Under Cover of Night1937
As Mrs. Nash
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The White Angel1936
As Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Public Hero Number 11935
As Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back1937
As Zeffie
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Gorgeous Hussy1936
As Mrs. Daniel Beall
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Tell No Tales1939
As Miss Mary
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Bulldog Drummond's Peril1938
As Mrs. Weevens
TMDb 5.9 / 10
She Couldn't Say No1940
As Ma Hawkins
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Maid of Salem1937
As Goody Hodgers
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Ship from Shanghai1930
As Lady Daley
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Stranded1935
As Old Hag (uncredited)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Kidnapped1938
As Old Woman
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Bad Boy1935
As Deaf Woman
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Blind Adventure1933
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Night of Love1927
As Lady in Waiting
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Comin' Round the Mountain1940
As Granny Stokes
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Bulldog Drummond Escapes1937
As Drunk in Jail Cell
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Balalaika1939
As Natalya Petrovna
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The King Without a Crown1937
As Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Hunted Men1938
As Flower Woman
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Arrest Bulldog Drummond1938
As Aunt Meg
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Midnight Taxi1937
As Mrs. Lane
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Clothes1920
As Mrs. Cathcart
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Two Alone1934
As Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Emergency Squad1940
As Mrs. Cobb
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Mystery Liner1934
As Granny Plimpton
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Navy Wife1935
As Bridge Player
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Rhythm in the Clouds1937
As The Duchess de Lovely
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Single Standard1929
As Mrs. Handley
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Sheriff of Tombstone1941
As Granny Carson
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Boy Trouble1939
As Mrs. Jepson
TMDb 6.0 / 10
A Society Exile1919
As Mrs. Stanley Shelby
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Big Game1921
As Aunt Sarah Winthrop
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Ocean Swells
Ocean Swells1934
As Auntie
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Another Scandal1924
As Brownie
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Flying with Music1942
As Fortune Teller
TMDb 4.5 / 10
The Marriage of William Ashe1921
As Lady Tranmore
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Women Must Dress1935
As Peg Martin
TMDb 3.5 / 10
Hideaway1937
As Mrs. Beamish
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Made on Broadway1933
As Aunt Ada
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Woman Against Woman1938
As Grandma
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Vamp Till Ready1936
As Woman
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Old Hutch1936
As Elderly Woman in Bank
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Blind Man's Luck1917
As Mrs. Guerton
Mothers of Men1920
As Mrs. De La Motte
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Grandma's Buoys
Grandma's Buoys1936
As Grandma
Federal Bullets1937
As Mrs. Crippen
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Avalanche1919
As Mrs. Ruyler
The Fuller Gush Man
The Fuller Gush Man1934
As Grandma
Second Childhood1936
As Grandma
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Filmography and biography: TMDb