From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaZeffie 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.
Grandma Joad
Film 1940
Mrs. Moncaster
Film 1935
Zeffie
Film 1937
The Opium Woman
Film 1935
Aunt Olga
Film 1936
Mrs. Weevens
Film 1938
Ma Hawkins
Film 1940
Mrs. Ruyler
Film 1919
Mrs. Stanley Shelby
Film 1919
Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
Film 1937
Grandma
Film 1934
Lady Daley
Film 1930
Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
Film 1935
Peg Martin
Film 1935
Mrs. De La Motte
Film 1920
Miss Gordon
Film 1937
Prudence
Film 1921
Grandma
Film 1938
Esther Warren
Film 1936
Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
Film 1936
Auntie
Film 1934
Woman Congratulating Manon
Film 1939
Natalya Petrovna
Film 1939
Mrs. Beamish
Film 1937
Goody Hodgers
Film 1937
Miss Nana (uncredited)
Film 1940
Mrs. Cobb
Film 1940
Mrs. Crippen
Film 1937
Grandma
Film 1936
Granny Plimpton
Film 1934
Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
Film 1934
Granny Carson
Film 1941
Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
Film 1936
Mrs. Nash
Film 1937
Bridge Player
Film 1935
Old Hag (uncredited)
Film 1935
The Wise Woman (uncredited)
Film 1935
Miss Turner (uncredited)
Film 1934
Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
Film 1935
Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
Film 1938
Woman
Film 1936
Grandma
Film 1936
Brownie
Film 1924
Fortune Teller
Film 1942
Granny Stokes
Film 1940
Flower Woman
Film 1938
Old Lady
Film 1937
Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
Film 1936
Elderly Woman in Bank
Film 1936
Molly Smith
Film 1936
Old Woman at Chalet
Film 1936
Gypsy Queen
Film 1936
Deaf Woman
Film 1935
Old Townswoman
Film 1935
Film 1933
Aunt Ada
Film 1933
Lady in Waiting
Film 1927
Aunt Sarah Winthrop
Film 1921
Lady Tranmore
Film 1921
Mrs. Cathcart
Film 1920
Mrs. Guerton
Film 1917