Zeffie Tilbury
Birthday: 1863-11-18
Place of Birth: Paddington, London, England, UK
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.
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Werewolf of London
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
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Tobacco Road
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Desire
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The Gorgeous Hussy
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
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Rhythm in the Clouds
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She Couldn't Say No
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The Avalanche
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A Society Exile
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The King Without a Crown
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The Fuller Gush Man
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Boy Trouble
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The Ship from Shanghai
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Alice Adams
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Mothers of Men
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It Happened in Hollywood
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Camille
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Woman Against Woman
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Give Me Your Heart
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Midnight Taxi
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The White Angel
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Lady of the Tropics
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Kidnapped
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Federal Bullets
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Two Alone
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After the Thin Man
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Under Cover of Night
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Navy Wife
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Stranded
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The Last Days of Pompeii
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Bachelor Bait
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Public Hero Number 1
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Marie Antoinette
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Second Childhood
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Another Scandal
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Flying with Music
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Comin' Round the Mountain
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Hunted Men
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Camille
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Old Hutch
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Anthony Adverse
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The Bohemian Girl
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The Farmer Takes a Wife
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Blind Adventure
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The Night of Love
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Big Game
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