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Enid Markey
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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.
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.
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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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The Boston Strangler
as Edna
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
as Emily
The Dagmar Story
as Ma Lewis
Take One False Step
as Clara (uncredited)
The Naked City
as Mrs. Hylton
Snafu
as Aunt Emily
No Poster
Sink or Swim
as Princess Alexia
The Romance of Tarzan
as Jane
Mother, I Need You
as Eva Stanley
A Lion of the Hills
Six-Shooter Andy
as Susan Allenby
Tarzan of the Apes
as Jane Porter
Cheating the Public
as Mary Garvin
The Curse of Eve
as Eva Stanley
The Yankee Way
as Princess Alexia
The Devil's Double
as Naomi Tarleton
Shell 43
as Adrienne von Altman
The Captive God
as Lolomi
Civilization
as Katheryn Haldemann
Between Men
as Lina Hampdon
The Despoiler
as Sylvia Damien
Aloha Oe
as Kalaniweo
The Iron Strain
as Octavia Van Ness
The Darkening Trail
as Ruby McGraw
No Poster
The Cup of Life
as Ruth Fiske
The Taking of Luke McVane
as Mercedes
The Roughneck
as Avis Hilliard
In the Tennessee Hills
as Millie James
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
No Poster
The City of Darkness
as The Governor's Sister
No Poster
From Out of the Dregs
as Nell Durand
The Buried Past
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The Days of '49
as Eva
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