Enid Markey

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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.

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1968
The Boston Strangler
Movie Edna
1968
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Movie Emily
1964
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV show
1961
The Defenders
TV show Elspeth Clarendon
1960
Bringing Up Buddy
TV show Aunt Violet Flower
1960
The Andy Griffith Show
TV show Mrs. Mendelbright
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV show Cecelia Smithson
1952
Omnibus
TV show
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV show Caroline Webster
1951
The Dagmar Story
Movie Ma Lewis
1950
Lux Video Theatre
TV show Mother
1949
Take One False Step
Movie Clara (uncredited)
1948
Studio One
TV show
1948
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV show
1948
The Naked City
Movie Mrs. Hylton
1945
Snafu
Movie Aunt Emily

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1920
Sink or Swim
Movie Princess Alexia
1918
The Romance of Tarzan
Movie Jane
1918
Mother, I Need You
Movie Eva Stanley
1918
A Lion of the Hills
Movie
1918
Six-Shooter Andy
Movie Susan Allenby
1918
Tarzan of the Apes
Movie Jane Porter
1918
Cheating the Public
Movie Mary Garvin
1917
The Curse of Eve
Movie Eva Stanley
1917
The Yankee Way
Movie Princess Alexia
1916
The Devil's Double
Movie Naomi Tarleton
1916
Shell 43
Movie Adrienne von Altman
1916
The Captive God
Movie Lolomi
1916
Civilization
Movie Katheryn Haldemann
1916
Between Men
Movie Lina Hampdon
1915
The Despoiler
Movie Sylvia Damien
1915
Aloha Oe
Movie Kalaniweo
1915
The Iron Strain
Movie Octavia Van Ness
1915
The Darkening Trail
Movie Ruby McGraw
1915
The Cup of Life
Movie Ruth Fiske
1915
The Taking of Luke McVane
Movie Mercedes
1915
The Roughneck
Movie Avis Hilliard
1915
In the Tennessee Hills
Movie Millie James
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Movie Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
1914
The City of Darkness
Movie The Governor's Sister