Enid Markey
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Boston Strangler
as Edna 1968
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited) 1914
Tarzan of the Apes
as Jane Porter 1918
Take One False Step
as Clara (uncredited) 1949
Civilization
as Katheryn Haldemann 1916
The Taking of Luke McVane
as Mercedes 1915
The Darkening Trail
as Ruby McGraw 1915
The Romance of Tarzan
as Jane 1918
The Iron Strain
as Octavia Van Ness 1915
Snafu
as Aunt Emily 1945
The Captive God
as Lolomi 1916
The Roughneck
as Avis Hilliard 1915
The Devil's Double
as Naomi Tarleton 1916
A Lion of the Hills
1918
The Cup of Life
as Ruth Fiske 1915
The Curse of Eve
as Eva Stanley 1917