Zeffie Tilbury
Date of birth: 1863-11-18
Place of birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Grapes of Wrath
1940-03-15
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due t
Werewolf of London
1935-05-13
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938-11-25
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard an
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937-09-24
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1937-01-22
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He
Tobacco Road
1941-02-20
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939-04-04
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1935-02-04
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to po
Desire
1936-04-11
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his v
The Single Standard
1929-07-27
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936-08-28
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know h
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1938-03-18
Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He
Rhythm in the Clouds
1937-06-21
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
She Couldn't Say No
1940-12-07
Two big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with the od
The Avalanche
1919-06-29
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
A Society Exile
1919-10-07
Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed par
The King Without a Crown
1937-10-09
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, esc
The Fuller Gush Man
1934-08-16
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on
Boy Trouble
1939-01-27
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
The Ship from Shanghai
1930-01-31
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward,
Alice Adams
1935-08-23
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother
Women Must Dress
1935-02-01
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
Mothers of Men
1920-03-10
Young Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by Prus
It Happened in Hollywood
1937-09-07
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Camille
1921-09-26
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval.
Woman Against Woman
1938-06-24
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence
Tell No Tales
1939-06-12
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save
Give Me Your Heart
1936-09-17
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
Midnight Taxi
1937-04-04
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit
The White Angel
1936-06-25
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurs
Ocean Swells
1934-08-08
An old lady and her two girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
Lady of the Tropics
1939-08-11
American playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal
Balalaika
1939-12-15
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activiti
Charlie Chan Carries On
1931-04-11
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings in
Hideaway
1937-08-13
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to
Kidnapped
1938-05-27
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland
Maid of Salem
1937-02-12
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a sc
The Earl of Chicago
1940-01-05
A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Ear
Emergency Squad
1940-01-05
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emer
Federal Bullets
1937-10-29
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The
Grandma's Buoys
1936-12-18
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. W
Mystery Liner
1934-03-15
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
Two Alone
1934-01-26
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie
Sheriff of Tombstone
1941-05-07
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the
After the Thin Man
1936-12-25
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, an
Under Cover of Night
1937-01-08
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's researc
Navy Wife
1935-09-17
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
Stranded
1935-06-29
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935-10-18
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, thou
Bachelor Bait
1934-07-27
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
Public Hero Number 1
1935-05-31
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which
Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,
Vamp Till Ready
1936-03-28
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
Second Childhood
1936-04-11
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she obser
Another Scandal
1924-06-22
Beatrix and Pelham Franklin marriage is tested by jealousy and a scheming woman. Beatrix, about to h
Flying with Music
1942-05-22
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the cl
Comin' Round the Mountain
1940-08-16
A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on th
Hunted Men
1938-05-27
Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club
Parnell
1937-06-04
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his re
Camille
1936-12-26
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gamb
Old Hutch
1936-09-25
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing th
Parole!
1936-06-14
Soon after the prison release of a lawyer (Henry Hunter), his dedication to improving his life puts
Anthony Adverse
1936-08-26
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymou
The Bohemian Girl
1936-02-14
Stan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
Bad Boy
1935-10-25
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can
The Farmer Takes a Wife
1935-07-05
A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
Blind Adventure
1933-08-18
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, wi
Made on Broadway
1933-05-19
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway pre
The Night of Love
1927-01-22
Montero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the Duk
Big Game
1921-08-16
Larry Winthrop, the pampered son of an aristocratic Boston family, is loved by his wife, Eleanor, bu
The Marriage of William Ashe
1921-01-17
Clothes
1920-09-19
Mistakenly believing that she has inherited a large estate from her father, Olivia Sherwood spends m
Blind Man's Luck
1917-06-10
Suspected of smuggling, Eileen Caverly boards the Connecticut Limited where she befriends Helen Raym