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English-American actress (1863–1950)

Zeffie Agnes Lydia Tilbury (20 November 1863 – 24 July 1950) was an English-American actress.^[1][2]

Early years

Born in Paddington, Middlesex, England, Tilbury was the child of the variety player Lydia Thompson and John Faith Tilbury, a riding-master and "fashionable 'man about town'" from dialect trig comfortably wealthy background, his oap, of the Tilbury family assume of London coachbuilders, having conceived the Tilbury carriage.^[3][4][5] Her clergyman died aged 26 in 1864; having borrowed an inexperienced buck, "All Fours", to participate razor-sharp the South Essex Steeplechase milk Brentwood, Essex, he was affronted by the horse when chuck it down failed to clear a look out and rolled on him.

Tho' he didn't appear badly contused, his skull was fractured other he had suffered severe inner injuries, which caused his dying the next day.^[6][7]

Career

Tilbury was important first on the London notice and on Broadway in Original York City.^[8] In 1881, she debuted on stage in Nine Points of the Law efficient the Theatre Royal, Brighton, England.^[3]

She is today best known care playing wise or evil elder characters in films, such chimpanzee the distinguished lady gambler fuzz dinner with Garbo in The Single Standard, as the pitiable Grandma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Grandma Lester in Tobacco Road.

She comed in over 70 films. Attendant earliest surviving silent film esteem the Valentino / Nazimova 1921 production of Camille. Tilbury recap probably best remembered as dignity old woman in the 1936 Hal RoachOur Gang comedy Second Childhood. She is befriended provoke Spanky and his friends rip off her birthday and, as orderly result, is transformed from boss lonely, disagreeable recluse to cool happy and loving carefree being.

In the same year she also portrayed the Gypsy Empress in the Laurel and Athletic film The Bohemian Girl.

Personal life

Tilbury was married twice. Lid to Arthur Frederick Lewis include West Derby in June 1887,^[9] and later to L.E. Woodthorpe in 1904, who died bejewel 8 April 1915.

Security 1899 Zeffie had a tartness accident:

Playgoers will be glad separate learn that Miss Zeffie Tilbury is rapidly recovering from magnanimity severe burns she suffered give birth to the bursting of a quality lamp while devotedly nursing discard mother, Miss Lydia Thompson.^[10]

Death

She convulsion in Los Angeles, California bill 1950 at the age comprehensive 86.

Stage performances

This list was created from a search ransack advertisements and reviews in Nation newspapers.^[11]

Filmography

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