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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 Gr...
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.
Movies (Cast)
Alice Adams
Parole!
Desire
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Blind Adventure
Camille
Tobacco Road
Kidnapped
Hunted Men
Mystery Liner
Stranded
Boy Trouble
The Grapes of Wrath
Marie Antoinette
Bad Boy
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Lady of the Tropics
Bachelor Bait
Camille
It Happened in Hollywood
The Last Days of Pompeii
The White Angel
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Single Standard
Sheriff of Tombstone
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Anthony Adverse
Navy Wife
The Bohemian Girl
Flying with Music
The Earl of Chicago
Women Must Dress
Tell No Tales
Midnight Taxi
Public Hero Number 1
Parnell
Give Me Your Heart
Under Cover of Night
Made on Broadway
The Night of Love
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Woman Against Woman
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Charlie Chan Carries On
Mothers of Men
Rhythm in the Clouds
Maid of Salem
The Gorgeous Hussy
After the Thin Man
Werewolf of London
Emergency Squad
She Couldn't Say No
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Balalaika
Hideaway
Second Childhood
The Ship from Shanghai
Two Alone
Series (Cast)
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