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Zeffie Tilbury
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 B…
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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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1955
MGM Parade
TV show Self
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1942
Flying with Music
Movie Fortune Teller
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1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
Movie Granny Carson
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1941
Tobacco Road
Movie Grandma Lester
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1940
She Couldn't Say No
Movie Ma Hawkins
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1940
Comin' Round the Mountain
Movie Granny Stokes
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1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Movie Grandma Joad
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1940
The Earl of Chicago
Movie Miss Nana (uncredited)
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1940
Emergency Squad
Movie Mrs. Cobb
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1939
Balalaika
Movie Natalya Petrovna
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1939
Lady of the Tropics
Movie Woman Congratulating Manon
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1939
Tell No Tales
Movie Miss Mary
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1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
Movie Mrs. Sanders
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1939
Boy Trouble
Movie Mrs. Jepson
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1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Movie Aunt Meg
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1938
Marie Antoinette
Movie Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
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1938
Woman Against Woman
Movie Grandma
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1938
Kidnapped
Movie Old Woman
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1938
Hunted Men
Movie Flower Woman
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1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
Movie Mrs. Weevens
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1937
Federal Bullets
Movie Mrs. Crippen
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1937
The King Without a Crown
Movie Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
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1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
Movie Zeffie
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1937
It Happened in Hollywood
Movie Miss Gordon
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1937
Hideaway
Movie Mrs. Beamish
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1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
Movie The Duchess de Lovely
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1937
Parnell
Movie Old Lady
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1937
Midnight Taxi
Movie Mrs. Lane
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1937
Maid of Salem
Movie Goody Hodgers
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1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
Movie Drunk in Jail Cell
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1937
Under Cover of Night
Movie Mrs. Nash
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1936
Camille
Movie Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
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1936
After the Thin Man
Movie Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
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1936
Grandma's Buoys
Movie Grandma
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1936
Old Hutch
Movie Elderly Woman in Bank
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1936
Give Me Your Heart
Movie Esther Warren
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1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
Movie Mrs. Daniel Beall
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1936
Anthony Adverse
Movie Old Woman at Chalet
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1936
The White Angel
Movie Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
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1936
Parole!
Movie Molly Smith
