1863-11-18 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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Flying with Music | Fortune Teller | 1942-05-22 |
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Tobacco Road | Grandma Lester | 1941-02-20 |
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Sheriff of Tombstone | Granny Carson | 1941-05-07 |
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Emergency Squad | Mrs. Cobb | 1940-01-05 |
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The Grapes of Wrath | Grandma Joad | 1940-03-15 |
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She Couldn't Say No | Ma Hawkins | 1940-12-07 |
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The Earl of Chicago | Miss Nana (uncredited) | 1940-01-05 |
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Comin' Round the Mountain | Granny Stokes | 1940-08-16 |
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Mrs. Sanders | 1939-04-04 |
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Tell No Tales | Miss Mary | 1939-06-12 |
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Lady of the Tropics | Woman Congratulating Manon | 1939-08-11 |
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Balalaika | Natalya Petrovna | 1939-12-15 |
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Boy Trouble | Mrs. Jepson | 1939-01-27 |
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Kidnapped | Old Woman | 1938-05-27 |
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Mrs. Weevens | 1938-03-18 |
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Marie Antoinette | Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited) | 1938-08-26 |
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond | Aunt Meg | 1938-11-25 |
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Woman Against Woman | Grandma | 1938-06-24 |
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Hunted Men | Flower Woman | 1938-05-27 |
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Parnell | Old Lady | 1937-06-04 |
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Midnight Taxi | Mrs. Lane | 1937-04-04 |
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Hideaway | Mrs. Beamish | 1937-08-13 |
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Under Cover of Night | Mrs. Nash | 1937-01-08 |
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Federal Bullets | Mrs. Crippen | 1937-10-29 |
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Maid of Salem | Goody Hodgers | 1937-02-12 |
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Rhythm in the Clouds | The Duchess de Lovely | 1937-06-21 |
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes | Drunk in Jail Cell | 1937-01-22 |
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Zeffie | 1937-09-24 |
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The King Without a Crown | Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited) | 1937-10-09 |
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It Happened in Hollywood | Miss Gordon | 1937-09-07 |
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The White Angel | Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited) | 1936-06-25 |
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Second Childhood | Grandma | 1936-04-11 |
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Give Me Your Heart | Esther Warren | 1936-09-17 |
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Grandma's Buoys | Grandma | 1936-12-18 |
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After the Thin Man | Aunt Lucy (uncredited) | 1936-12-25 |
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Vamp Till Ready | Woman | 1936-03-28 |
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Camille | Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs | 1936-12-26 |
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The Bohemian Girl | Gypsy Queen | 1936-02-14 |
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Desire | Aunt Olga | 1936-04-11 |
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Anthony Adverse | Old Woman at Chalet | 1936-08-26 |
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Parole! | Molly Smith | 1936-06-14 |
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Old Hutch | Elderly Woman in Bank | 1936-09-25 |
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The Gorgeous Hussy | Mrs. Daniel Beall | 1936-08-28 |
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The Farmer Takes a Wife | Old Townswoman | 1935-07-05 |
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Bad Boy | Deaf Woman | 1935-10-25 |
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Public Hero Number 1 | Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited) | 1935-05-31 |
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Werewolf of London | Mrs. Moncaster | 1935-05-13 |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood | The Opium Woman | 1935-02-04 |
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The Last Days of Pompeii | The Wise Woman (uncredited) | 1935-10-18 |
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Women Must Dress | Peg Martin | 1935-02-01 |
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Alice Adams | Mrs. Dresser (uncredited) | 1935-08-23 |
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Navy Wife | Bridge Player | 1935-09-17 |
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Stranded | Old Hag (uncredited) | 1935-06-29 |
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Bachelor Bait | Miss Turner (uncredited) | 1934-07-27 |
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The Fuller Gush Man | Grandma | 1934-08-16 |
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Mystery Liner | Granny Plimpton | 1934-03-15 |
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Ocean Swells | Auntie | 1934-08-08 |
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Two Alone | Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited) | 1934-01-26 |
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Blind Adventure | 1933-08-18 | |
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Made on Broadway | Aunt Ada | 1933-05-19 |
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Charlie Chan Carries On | Mrs. Luce | 1931-04-11 |
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The Ship from Shanghai | Lady Daley | 1930-01-31 |
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The Single Standard | Mrs. Handley | 1929-07-27 |
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The Night of Love | Lady in Waiting | 1927-01-22 |
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Another Scandal | Brownie | 1924-06-22 |
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The Marriage of William Ashe | Lady Tranmore | 1921-01-17 |
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Big Game | Aunt Sarah Winthrop | 1921-08-16 |
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Camille | Prudence | 1921-09-26 |
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Mothers of Men | Mrs. De La Motte | 1920-03-10 |
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Clothes | Mrs. Cathcart | 1920-09-19 |
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A Society Exile | Mrs. Stanley Shelby | 1919-10-07 |
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The Avalanche | Mrs. Ruyler | 1919-06-29 |
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Blind Man's Luck | Mrs. Guerton | 1917-06-10 |
