Actor
Zeffie Tilbury
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 Gr ...

Known For
Acting
1942 -- Flying with Music | Fortune Teller
1941 -- Sheriff of Tombstone | Granny Carson
1941 -- Tobacco Road | Grandma Lester
1940 -- She Couldn't Say No | Ma Hawkins
1940 -- Comin' Round the Mountain | Granny Stokes
1940 -- The Grapes of Wrath | Grandma Joad
1940 -- Emergency Squad | Mrs. Cobb
1940 -- The Earl of Chicago | Miss Nana (uncredited)
1939 -- Balalaika | Natalya Petrovna
1939 -- Lady of the Tropics | Woman Congratulating Manon
1939 -- Tell No Tales | Miss Mary
1939 -- The Story of Alexander Graham Bell | Mrs. Sanders
1939 -- Boy Trouble | Mrs. Jepson
1938 -- Arrest Bulldog Drummond | Aunt Meg
1938 -- Marie Antoinette | Dowager at Birth of Dauphin (uncredited)
1938 -- Woman Against Woman | Grandma
1938 -- Hunted Men | Flower Woman
1938 -- Kidnapped | Old Woman
1938 -- Bulldog Drummond's Peril | Mrs. Weevens
1937 -- Federal Bullets | Mrs. Crippen
1937 -- The King Without a Crown | Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)
1937 -- Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Zeffie
1937 -- It Happened in Hollywood | Miss Gordon
1937 -- Hideaway | Mrs. Beamish
1937 -- Rhythm in the Clouds | The Duchess de Lovely
1937 -- Parnell | Old Lady
1937 -- Midnight Taxi | Mrs. Lane
1937 -- Maid of Salem | Goody Hodgers
1937 -- Bulldog Drummond Escapes | Drunk in Jail Cell
1937 -- Under Cover of Night | Mrs. Nash
1936 -- Camille | Old Duchess Bidding 3750 Francs
1936 -- After the Thin Man | Aunt Lucy (uncredited)
1936 -- Grandma's Buoys | Grandma
1936 -- Old Hutch | Elderly Woman in Bank
1936 -- Give Me Your Heart | Esther Warren
1936 -- The Gorgeous Hussy | Mrs. Daniel Beall
1936 -- Anthony Adverse | Old Woman at Chalet
1936 -- The White Angel | Woman Donating Sheets (uncredited)
1936 -- Parole! | Molly Smith
1936 -- Second Childhood | Grandma
1936 -- Desire | Aunt Olga
1936 -- Vamp Till Ready | Woman
1936 -- The Bohemian Girl | Gypsy Queen
1935 -- Bad Boy | Deaf Woman
1935 -- The Last Days of Pompeii | The Wise Woman (uncredited)
1935 -- Navy Wife | Bridge Player
1935 -- Alice Adams | Mrs. Dresser (uncredited)
1935 -- The Farmer Takes a Wife | Old Townswoman
1935 -- Stranded | Old Hag (uncredited)
1935 -- Public Hero Number 1 | Deaf Woman in Scottsdale Bar (uncredited)
1935 -- Werewolf of London | Mrs. Moncaster
1935 -- The Mystery of Edwin Drood | The Opium Woman
1935 -- Women Must Dress | Peg Martin
1934 -- The Fuller Gush Man | Grandma
1934 -- Ocean Swells | Auntie
1934 -- Bachelor Bait | Miss Turner (uncredited)
1934 -- Mystery Liner | Granny Plimpton
1934 -- Two Alone | Rogers' Neighbor (uncredited)
1933 -- Blind Adventure |
1933 -- Made on Broadway | Aunt Ada
1931 -- Charlie Chan Carries On | Mrs. Luce
1930 -- The Ship from Shanghai | Lady Daley
1929 -- The Single Standard | Mrs. Handley
1927 -- The Night of Love | Lady in Waiting
1924 -- Another Scandal | Brownie
1921 -- Camille | Prudence
1921 -- Big Game | Aunt Sarah Winthrop
1921 -- The Marriage of William Ashe | Lady Tranmore
1920 -- Clothes | Mrs. Cathcart
1920 -- Mothers of Men | Mrs. De La Motte
1919 -- A Society Exile | Mrs. Stanley Shelby
1919 -- The Avalanche | Mrs. Ruyler
1917 -- Blind Man's Luck | Mrs. Guerton
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