Zeffie Tilbury
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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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.961 |
| Birthday | 1863-11-18 |
| Place of Birth | Paddington, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury, Zeffie Tilsbury, |
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
7.848/964
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...
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The Grapes of Wrath
1935
Werewolf of London
6/130
A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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Werewolf of London
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6.7/12
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1937
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
6.1/14
Drummond's girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r...
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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back
1937
Bulldog Drummond Escapes
5.9/17
Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a...
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Bulldog Drummond Escapes
1941
Tobacco Road
6.6/50
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existe...
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Tobacco Road
1939
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
6/15
Alexander Graham Bell falls in love with deaf girl Mabel Hubbard while teaching the deaf and trying to invent means for telegraphing the human voice....
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1935
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
5.5/10
A choirmaster addicted to opium and obsessed with a beautiful young woman will stop at nothing to possess her.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1936
Desire
6.7/42
Madeleine steals a string of pearls in Paris and uses American engineer Tom, who is driving on his vacation to Spain, to get the pearls out of France....
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Desire
1929
The Single Standard
6.2/4
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
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The Single Standard
1936
The Gorgeous Hussy
5/11
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The Gorgeous Hussy
1938
Bulldog Drummond's Peril
5.7/17
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Bulldog Drummond's Peril
1937
Rhythm in the Clouds
5/1
Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.
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Rhythm in the Clouds
1940
She Couldn't Say No
6.8/1
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She Couldn't Say No
1919
A Society Exile
0/0
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A Society Exile
1919
The Avalanche
0/0
A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.
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The Avalanche
1937
The King Without a Crown
5.5/6
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was ra...
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The King Without a Crown
1934
The Fuller Gush Man
0/0
Walter goes to his girlfriend's parents to ask their permission to marry her; but the family puts on an act and pretends to be totally loony.
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The Fuller Gush Man
1939
Boy Trouble
5/4
A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys.
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Boy Trouble
1930
The Ship from Shanghai
5.7/3
On a yacht sailing from Shanghai to the United States, the sailors, led by the megalomaniac steward, revolt and take control.
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The Ship from Shanghai
1935
Alice Adams
6.7/49
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Alice Adams
1935
Women Must Dress
3/2
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
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Women Must Dress
1920
Mothers of Men
5/2
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Mothers of Men
1937
It Happened in Hollywood
6.2/13
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
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It Happened in Hollywood
1921
Camille
5.7/19
Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hop...
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Camille
1938
Woman Against Woman
6.5/2
A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.
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Woman Against Woman
1939
Tell No Tales
5.3/5
A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.
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Tell No Tales
1936
Give Me Your Heart
6/6
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.
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Give Me Your Heart
1937
Midnight Taxi
5/3
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
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Midnight Taxi
1936
The White Angel
8/4
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...
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The White Angel
1934
Ocean Swells
0/0
A old lady and her 2 girls go husband hunting at a luxury resort.
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Ocean Swells
1939
Lady of the Tropics
6.1/8
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Lady of the Tropics
1939
Balalaika
4.2/4
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.
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Balalaika
1931
Charlie Chan Carries On
6.5/2
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Ko...
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Charlie Chan Carries On
1937
Hideaway
4/1
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
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Hideaway
1938
Kidnapped
6/2
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Kidnapped
1937
Maid of Salem
5.9/7
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Maid of Salem
1940
The Earl of Chicago
5.6/5
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The Earl of Chicago
1940
Emergency Squad
5/1
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Emergency Squad
1937
Federal Bullets
0/0
Federal Bullets is a leisurely paced Monogram crime melodrama with not a few clever plot twists. The FBI, represented by Milburn Stone and William Har...
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Federal Bullets
1936
Grandma's Buoys
0/0
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barfl...
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Grandma's Buoys
1934
Mystery Liner
4.6/7
Police try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
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Mystery Liner
1934
Two Alone
7/2
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they...
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Two Alone
1941
Sheriff of Tombstone
6.8/4
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy an...
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Sheriff of Tombstone
1936
After the Thin Man
7.3/158
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady...
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After the Thin Man
1937
Under Cover of Night
5.7/3
A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.
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Under Cover of Night
1935
Navy Wife
5/1
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Navy Wife
1935
Stranded
5.8/5
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
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Stranded
1935
The Last Days of Pompeii
5.6/22
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1934
Bachelor Bait
5.7/3
After being fired from his job at the Marriage License Bureau, a clerk turns to matchmaking.
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Bachelor Bait
1935
Public Hero Number 1
6.2/8
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailb...
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Public Hero Number 1
1938
Marie Antoinette
6.2/25
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...
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Marie Antoinette
1936
Vamp Till Ready
0/0
Charley's somewhat prudish wife pretends to be a party girl.
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Vamp Till Ready
1936
Second Childhood
7/4
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining,...
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