Enid Markey
Acting • Born 1894-02-22 – Died 1981-11-15
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
44 credits
The Naked City
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Hylton
The Roughneck
Movie • 1915
Avis Hilliard
The Devil's Double
Movie • 1916
Naomi Tarleton
A Lion of the Hills
Movie • 1918
The Cup of Life
Movie • 1915
Ruth Fiske
The Iron Strain
Movie • 1915
Octavia Van Ness
Tarzan of the Apes
Movie • 1918
Jane Porter
The Curse of Eve
Movie • 1917
Eva Stanley
The Dagmar Story
Movie • 1951
Ma Lewis
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Movie • 1968
Emily
Shell 43
Movie • 1916
Adrienne von Altman
Sink or Swim
Movie • 1920
Princess Alexia
The Yankee Way
Movie • 1917
Princess Alexia
Snafu
Movie • 1945
Aunt Emily
The Taking of Luke McVane
Movie • 1915
Mercedes
Between Men
Movie • 1916
Lina Hampdon
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Movie • 1914
Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)
The Darkening Trail
Movie • 1915
Ruby McGraw
The Romance of Tarzan
Movie • 1918
Jane
Civilization
Movie • 1916
Katheryn Haldemann
The Captive God
Movie • 1916
Lolomi
The Despoiler
Movie • 1915
Sylvia Damien
Mother, I Need You
Movie • 1918
Eva Stanley
In the Tennessee Hills
Movie • 1915
Millie James
Take One False Step
Movie • 1949
Clara (uncredited)
Six-Shooter Andy
Movie • 1918
Susan Allenby
The Boston Strangler
Movie • 1968
Edna
Cheating the Public
Movie • 1918
Mary Garvin
The City of Darkness
Movie • 1914
The Governor's Sister
From Out of the Dregs
Movie • 1914
Nell Durand
The Buried Past
Movie • 1913
When Lee Surrenders
Movie • 1912
The Days of '49
Movie • 1913
Eva
Aloha Oe
Movie • 1915
Kalaniweo
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV • 1964
Omnibus
TV • 1952
Studio One
TV • 1948
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Cecelia Smithson
Bringing Up Buddy
TV • 1960
Aunt Violet Flower
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Abigail
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV • 1951
Caroline Webster
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV • 1948
The Defenders
TV • 1961
Elspeth Clarendon
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Mrs. Mendelbright