Zeffie Tilbury
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.
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma JoadTom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm...
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After the Thin Man
as Aunt Lucy (uncredited)Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is...
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Camille
as Old Duchess Bidding 3750 FrancsLife in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In...
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Werewolf of London
as Mrs. MoncasterA strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
as Mrs. Daniel BeallIt's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that...
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Marie Antoinette
as Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of...
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Tobacco Road
as Grandma LesterShiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their...
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Anthony Adverse
as Old Woman at ChaletBased on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the...
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Alice Adams
as Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
as ZeffieDrummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an...
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
as Mrs. SandersAlexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and...
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Desire
as Aunt OlgaMadeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on...
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Public Hero Number 1
as Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums...
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Blind Adventure
as uncreditedRichard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international...
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Camille
as PrudenceCamille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand...
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The Bohemian Girl
as Gypsy QueenStan and Ollie travel with a band of 18th-century Gypsies holding a nobleman's daughter.
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Kidnapped
as Old WomanRobert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century...
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
as Mrs. WeevensDrummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is...
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Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny CarsonThe mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be...
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Stranded
as Old Hag (uncredited)A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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The Single Standard
as Mrs. HandleyA bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the...
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The Ship from Shanghai
as Lady DaleyOn a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac...
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
as Drunk in Jail CellDrummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his...
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Rhythm in the Clouds
as The Duchess de LovelyJudy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Bachelor Bait
as Miss Turner (uncredited)After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
as Old TownswomanA farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.
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The Last Days of Pompeii
as The Wise Woman (uncredited)In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator,...
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Tell No Tales
as Miss MaryA newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...
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Emergency Squad
as Mrs. CobbBetty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city...
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Parnell
as Old LadyIrish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but...
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Maid of Salem
as Goody HodgersWhen a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes...
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Mystery Liner
as Granny PlimptonPolice try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Aunt MegThe invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland...
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Woman Against Woman
as GrandmaA newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling...
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Two Alone
as Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works....
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Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating ManonPlayboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal...
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Boy Trouble
as Mrs. JepsonA fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Mothers of Men
as Mrs. De La MotteYoung Austrian girl Marie Helmar, is left penniless by the death of her father and disgraced by...
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Give Me Your Heart
as Esther WarrenAn American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Made on Broadway
as Aunt AdaA satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as The Opium WomanA choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing...
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It Happened in Hollywood
as Miss GordonA silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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Old Hutch
as Elderly Woman in BankLife changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box...
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The White Angel
as Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards...
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The Night of Love
as Lady in WaitingMontero, son of a Gypsy leader, is about to take a bride according to primitive ritual, when the...
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Hideaway
as Mrs. BeamishA poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a...
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Hunted Men
as Flower WomanNotorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the...
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Charlie Chan Carries On
as Mrs. LuceCharlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel....
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Bad Boy
as Deaf WomanAn unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he...
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Flying with Music
as Fortune TellerThe "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping...
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Women Must Dress
as Peg MartinA divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
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Second Childhood
as GrandmaA lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she...
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Balalaika
as Natalya PetrovnaA Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary...
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Under Cover of Night
as Mrs. NashA detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's...
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She Couldn't Say No
as Ma HawkinsTwo big city lawyers are handed an important case but then find it requires them to deal with...
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Navy Wife
as Bridge PlayerA Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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The Avalanche
as Mrs. RuylerA woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
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A Society Exile
as Mrs. Stanley ShelbyNora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed...
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Midnight Taxi
as Mrs. LaneA federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of...
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Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny StokesA Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin...
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The King Without a Crown
as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette,...
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Vamp Till Ready
as WomanCharley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
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Federal Bullets
as Mrs. CrippenFederal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists....
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Clothes
as Mrs. CathcartMistakenly believing that she has inherited a large estate from her father, Olivia Sherwood...
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