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Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury
Zeffie Tilsbury
Zeffie Tilbury
Acting
Biography
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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 survi…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Flying with Music
as Fortune Teller
Tobacco Road
as Grandma Lester
Sheriff of Tombstone
as Granny Carson
The Grapes of Wrath
as Grandma Joad
The Earl of Chicago
as Miss Nana (uncredited)
Emergency Squad
as Mrs. Cobb
She Couldn't Say No
as Ma Hawkins
Comin' Round the Mountain
as Granny Stokes
Lady of the Tropics
as Woman Congratulating Manon
Tell No Tales
as Miss Mary
