Enid Markey
Known for ActingBorn 1894-02-22 — died 1981-11-15
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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.
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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.
Known for
The Boston Strangler
1968 · as Edna
The Naked City
1948 · as Mrs. Hylton
Aloha Oe
1915 · as Kalaniweo
Tarzan of the Apes
1918 · as Jane Porter
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · as Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
From Out of the Dregs
1914 · as Nell Durand
Take One False Step
1949 · as Clara (uncredited)
The City of Darkness
1914 · as The Governor's Sister
Cheating the Public
1918 · as Mary Garvin
The Days of '49
1913 · as Eva
When Lee Surrenders
1912
Sink or Swim
1920 · as Princess Alexia
Mother, I Need You
1918 · as Eva Stanley
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
1968 · as Emily
Snafu
1945 · as Aunt Emily
Civilization
1916 · as Katheryn Haldemann
The Romance of Tarzan
1918 · as Jane
The Devil's Double
1916 · as Naomi Tarleton