- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- February 22, 1894
- Place of Birth
- —
- Died
- November 15, 1981
Enid Markey
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 ba…
Filmography
movieThe Boston Strangler
1968 · Edna
movieThe Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968 · Emily
tvGomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1964
tvThe Defenders
1961 · Elspeth Clarendon
Bringing Up Buddy
tvBringing Up Buddy
1960 · Aunt Violet Flower
tvThe Andy Griffith Show
1960 · Mrs. Mendelbright
tvAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Cecelia Smithson
tvOmnibus
1952
tvSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Caroline Webster
movieThe Dagmar Story
1951 · Ma Lewis
Lux Video Theatre
tvLux Video Theatre
1950 · Mother
movieTake One False Step
1949 · Clara (uncredited)
tvStudio One
1948
tvThe Philco Television Playhouse
1948
movieThe Naked City
1948 · Mrs. Hylton
movieSnafu
1945 · Aunt Emily
Sink or Swim
movieSink or Swim
1920 · Princess Alexia
movieThe Romance of Tarzan
1918 · Jane
movieMother, I Need You
1918 · Eva Stanley
movieA Lion of the Hills
1918
movieSix-Shooter Andy
1918 · Susan Allenby
movieTarzan of the Apes
1918 · Jane Porter
movieCheating the Public
1918 · Mary Garvin
movieThe Curse of Eve
1917 · Eva Stanley
movieThe Yankee Way
1917 · Princess Alexia
movieThe Devil's Double
1916 · Naomi Tarleton
movieShell 43
1916 · Adrienne von Altman
movieThe Captive God
1916 · Lolomi
movieCivilization
1916 · Katheryn Haldemann
movieBetween Men
1916 · Lina Hampdon
movieThe Despoiler
1915 · Sylvia Damien
movieAloha Oe
1915 · Kalaniweo
movieThe Iron Strain
1915 · Octavia Van Ness
movieThe Darkening Trail
1915 · Ruby McGraw
The Cup of Life
movieThe Cup of Life
1915 · Ruth Fiske
movieThe Taking of Luke McVane
1915 · Mercedes
movieThe Roughneck
1915 · Avis Hilliard
movieIn the Tennessee Hills
1915 · Millie James
movieTillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
The City of Darkness
movieThe City of Darkness
1914 · The Governor's Sister
From Out of the Dregs
movieFrom Out of the Dregs
1914 · Nell Durand
movieThe Buried Past
1913
The Days of '49
movieThe Days of '49
1913 · Eva
When Lee Surrenders
movieWhen Lee Surrenders
1912