Although he didn't appear badly injured, his skull was fractured and he had suffered severe internal injuries, which caused his death the next day.

[3] 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 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 same year she also portrayed the Gypsy Queen in the Laurel and Hardy film The Bohemian Girl.

In 1899 Zeffie had a painful accident:Playgoers will be glad to learn that Miss Zeffie Tilbury is rapidly recovering from the severe burns she suffered from the bursting of a spirit lamp while devotedly nursing her mother, Miss Lydia Thompson.