Zeffie Tilbury

Highest Rated: 100% The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Lowest Rated: 20% Anthony Adverse (1936)

Birthday: Nov 20, 1863

Birthplace: Not Available

After many, many years on-stage, American actress Zeffie Tilbury made her film bow in 1919. Almost from the beginning of her movie career, Tilbury was typecast as grandmotherly types, be they lovable, spiteful, or diabolical. At her peak in the 1930s and early '40s, she was seen as the Gypsy Queen in Laurel and Hardy's Bohemian Girl (1936); the elegant, larcenous Aunt Olga in the Lubitsch-produced Desire (1936); Gramma Joad in John Ford's Grapes of Wrath (1940); and Ma Lester in another Ford production, Tobacco Road (1941). Fans of the Little Rascals will remember Tilbury as the snappish hypochondriac who is regenerated by the presence of Spanky, Alfalfa, and the rest in the 1936 two-reeler Second Childhood. During her 1930s heyday, Zeffie Tilbury was almost totally blind, a fact she successfully kept secret from the public so as not to generate curiosity or pity.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (The Modern Miracle)	Mrs. Sanders	—	2000
No Score Yet	Sheriff of Tombstone	Granny Carson	—	1941
No Score Yet	Tobacco Road	Grandma Lester	—	1941
100%	The Grapes of Wrath	Grandma Joad	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Earl of Chicago	Old Lady	—	1940
No Score Yet	Balalaika	Princess Morodin	—	1939
No Score Yet	Lady of the Tropics	Woman Congratulating Manon	—	1939
No Score Yet	Arrest Bulldog Drummond	Aunt Meg	—	1939
No Score Yet	Marie Antoinette	Dowager at Birth of Dauphin	—	1938
No Score Yet	Block-Heads	Old woman	—	1938
No Score Yet	Woman Against Woman	Grandma	—	1938
No Score Yet	Bulldog Drummond's Peril	Mrs. Weevens	—	1938
No Score Yet	Live, Love and Learn	Mrs. Venable	—	1937
No Score Yet	It Happened in Hollywood	Miss Gordon	—	1937
No Score Yet	Bulldog Drummond Comes Back	Zeffie	—	1937
No Score Yet	Rhythm in the Clouds	Maggie Conway	—	1937
No Score Yet	Bulldog Drummond Escapes	Drunk	—	1937
No Score Yet	Maid of Salem	Goody Hodgers	—	1937
No Score Yet	Under Cover of Night	Mrs. Nash	—	1937
100%	After the Thin Man	Lucy	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Gorgeous Hussy	Mrs. Daniel Beall	—	1936
100%	Desire	Aunt Olga	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Bohemian Girl	Gypsy queen	—	1936
20%	Anthony Adverse	Old Woman at Chalet	—	1936
No Score Yet	Give Me Your Heart	Miss Esther Warren	—	1936
No Score Yet	Second Childhood	Grandma	—	1936
No Score Yet	Old Hutch	Elderly Woman	—	1936
No Score Yet	Last Days of Pompeii	Wise Woman	—	1935
No Score Yet	The Farmer Takes a Wife	Old Lady	—	1935
No Score Yet	Stranded	Old Hag	—	1935
77%	Werewolf of London	Mrs. Mancaster	—	1935
80%	Mark of the Vampire	Grandmother	—	1935
94%	Alice Adams	Mrs. Dresser	—	1935
71%	The Mystery of Edwin Drood	Opium Den Hag	—	1935
No Score Yet	Mystery Liner	Granny Plimpton	—	1934
No Score Yet	The Single Standard	Mrs. Handley	—	1929
No Score Yet	Camille	Prudence	—	1921

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