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.
73 movies · 1 shows
Flying with Music
1942·4.4
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941·7.2
Tobacco Road
1941·6.8
She Couldn't Say No
1940·7.5
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940·9.0
The Grapes of Wrath
1940·7.8
The Earl of Chicago
1940·6.3
Emergency Squad
1940·7.0
Balalaika
1939·5.3
Lady of the Tropics
1939·6.5
Tell No Tales
1939·5.4
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939·6.3
Boy Trouble
1939·6.0
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938·6.8
Marie Antoinette
1938·6.6
Woman Against Woman
1938·7.0
Kidnapped
1938·6.0
Hunted Men
1938·5.7
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938·5.9
Federal Bullets
1937·8.0
The King Without a Crown
1937·5.6
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937·6.2
It Happened in Hollywood
1937·6.3
Hideaway
1937·6.0
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937·7.5
Parnell
1937·4.6
Midnight Taxi
1937·6.2
Maid of Salem
1937·6.2
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937·6.1
Under Cover of Night
1937·6.0
Camille
1936·7.0
After the Thin Man
1936·7.3
Grandma's Buoys
1936·0.0
Old Hutch
1936·10.0
Give Me Your Heart
1936·5.9
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936·5.5
Anthony Adverse
1936·5.7
The White Angel
1936·7.2
Parole!
1936·7.0
Desire
1936·7.0
Second Childhood
1936·7.3
Vamp Till Ready
1936·7.0
The Bohemian Girl
1936·6.1
Bad Boy
1935·7.5
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935·5.8
Navy Wife
1935·6.0
Alice Adams
1935·6.7
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935·6.2
Stranded
1935·6.0
Public Hero Number 1
1935·6.3
Werewolf of London
1935·6.1
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935·5.9
Women Must Dress
1935·3.5
The Fuller Gush Man
1934·0.0
Ocean Swells
1934·8.0
Bachelor Bait
1934·6.5
Mystery Liner
1934·4.7
Two Alone
1934·7.3
Blind Adventure
1933·6.3
Made on Broadway
1933·7.0
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931·7.0
The Ship from Shanghai
1930·6.8
The Single Standard
1929·5.9
The Night of Love
1927·7.0
Another Scandal
1924·8.0
Camille
1921·5.7
Big Game
1921·10.0
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921·8.0
Clothes
1920·9.0
Mothers of Men
1920·6.0
A Society Exile
1919·9.0
The Avalanche
1919·0.0
Blind Man's Luck
1917·0.0