Enid Markey

Acting

Enid Markey

Born
Died
(aged 87)
Credits
44 titles

Biography

From Wikipedia

Enid Markey was born in Dillon, Colorado. Her first film role was in The Fortunes of War (1911). During the production of The Wrath of the Gods (1914), Markey, a "leading lady with the New York Motion Picture Company", was "badly injured" during the production. During her scene in which the lava flow destroys the village she was surrounded by smoke and fumes and nearly asphyxiated, but had recovered by May 1914.

Her last appearance was in The Boston Strangler (1968).

During the 1950s and 1960s she appeared in several television guest-starring roles, including The Andy Griffith Show as Barney Fife's landlady, and an episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., as Grandma Pyle.

In the 1960-1961 season, Markey was cast as Aunt Violet Flower in CBS's Bringing Up Buddy, co-starring Frank Aletter and Doro Merande.

Markey and Merando played spinster aunts who provide a home for their bachelor nephew stockbroker, Buddy Flower, played by Aletter.

She died in Bay Shore, New York, aged 87.

Signature work

Known For

Acting credits 44

YearTitleRole
1968 The Boston Strangler Film Edna
1968 The Love Song of Barney Kempinski Film Emily
1964 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. TV (1 ep)
1961 The Defenders TV Elspeth Clarendon (1 ep)
1960 Bringing Up Buddy TV Aunt Violet Flower (36 ep)
1960 The Andy Griffith Show TV Mrs. Mendelbright (1 ep)
1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV Cecelia Smithson (1 ep)
1952 Omnibus TV (1 ep)
1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars TV Caroline Webster (1 ep)
1951 The Dagmar Story Film Ma Lewis
1950 Lux Video Theatre TV Mother (2 ep)
1949 Take One False Step Film Clara (uncredited)
1948 Studio One TV (1 ep)
1948 The Philco Television Playhouse TV (2 ep)
1948 The Naked City Film Mrs. Hylton
1945 Snafu Film Aunt Emily
1920 Sink or Swim Film Princess Alexia
1918 The Romance of Tarzan Film Jane
1918 Mother, I Need You Film Eva Stanley
1918 A Lion of the Hills Film
1918 Six-Shooter Andy Film Susan Allenby
1918 Tarzan of the Apes Film Jane Porter
1918 Cheating the Public Film Mary Garvin
1917 The Curse of Eve Film Eva Stanley
1917 The Yankee Way Film Princess Alexia
1916 The Devil's Double Film Naomi Tarleton
1916 Shell 43 Film Adrienne von Altman
1916 The Captive God Film Lolomi
1916 Civilization Film Katheryn Haldemann
1916 Between Men Film Lina Hampdon
1915 The Despoiler Film Sylvia Damien
1915 Aloha Oe Film Kalaniweo
1915 The Iron Strain Film Octavia Van Ness
1915 The Darkening Trail Film Ruby McGraw
1915 The Cup of Life Film Ruth Fiske
1915 The Taking of Luke McVane Film Mercedes
1915 The Roughneck Film Avis Hilliard
1915 In the Tennessee Hills Film Millie James
1914 Tillie's Punctured Romance Film Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
1914 The City of Darkness Film The Governor's Sister
1914 From Out of the Dregs Film Nell Durand
1913 The Buried Past Film
1913 The Days of '49 Film Eva
1912 When Lee Surrenders Film
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