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Tobacco Road

as Grandma Lester

1941
Sheriff of Tombstone

as Granny Carson

1941
The Grapes of Wrath

as Grandma Joad

1940
Tell No Tales

as Miss Mary

1939
Boy Trouble

as Mrs. Jepson

1939
Arrest Bulldog Drummond

as Aunt Meg

1938
Woman Against Woman

as Grandma

1938
Rhythm in the Clouds

as The Duchess de Lovely

1937
The King Without a Crown

as Dying Duchess Marie (uncredited)

1937
Federal Bullets

as Mrs. Crippen

1937
Desire

as Aunt Olga

1936
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

as The Opium Woman

1935
The Ship from Shanghai

as Lady Daley

1930
The Single Standard

as Mrs. Handley

1929
Camille

as Prudence

1921
Zeffie Tilbury Zeffie Tilbury

Birthday

1863-11-20

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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