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Enid Markey

Enid Markey

Born: 1894-02-22

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.

Filmography
The Boston Strangler poster
The Boston Strangler
1968 • Edna
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski poster
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968 • Emily
The Dagmar Story poster
The Dagmar Story
1951 • Ma Lewis
Take One False Step poster
Take One False Step
1949 • Clara (uncredited)
The Naked City poster
The Naked City
1948 • Mrs. Hylton
Snafu poster
Snafu
1945 • Aunt Emily
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Sink or Swim
1920 • Princess Alexia
The Romance of Tarzan poster
The Romance of Tarzan
1918 • Jane
Mother, I Need You poster
Mother, I Need You
1918 • Eva Stanley
A Lion of the Hills poster
A Lion of the Hills
1918
Six-Shooter Andy poster
Six-Shooter Andy
1918 • Susan Allenby
Tarzan of the Apes poster
Tarzan of the Apes
1918 • Jane Porter
Cheating the Public poster
Cheating the Public
1918 • Mary Garvin
The Curse of Eve poster
The Curse of Eve
1917 • Eva Stanley
The Yankee Way poster
The Yankee Way
1917 • Princess Alexia
The Devil's Double poster
The Devil's Double
1916 • Naomi Tarleton
Shell 43 poster
Shell 43
1916 • Adrienne von Altman
The Captive God poster
The Captive God
1916 • Lolomi
Civilization poster
Civilization
1916 • Katheryn Haldemann
Between Men poster
Between Men
1916 • Lina Hampdon
The Despoiler poster
The Despoiler
1915 • Sylvia Damien
Aloha Oe poster
Aloha Oe
1915 • Kalaniweo
The Iron Strain poster
The Iron Strain
1915 • Octavia Van Ness
The Darkening Trail poster
The Darkening Trail
1915 • Ruby McGraw
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The Cup of Life
1915 • Ruth Fiske
The Taking of Luke McVane poster
The Taking of Luke McVane
1915 • Mercedes
The Roughneck poster
The Roughneck
1915 • Avis Hilliard
In the Tennessee Hills poster
In the Tennessee Hills
1915 • Millie James
Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 • Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
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The City of Darkness
1914 • The Governor's Sister
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From Out of the Dregs
1914 • Nell Durand
The Buried Past poster
The Buried Past
1913
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The Days of '49
1913 • Eva
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When Lee Surrenders
1912