Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
November 27, 1904
Place of Birth:
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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Florence Lake
Biography
From Wikipedia
Florence Lake (born Florence Silverlake, November 27, 1904 – April 11, 1980) was an American actress best known as the leading lady in most of the Edgar Kennedy comedy shorts.
Florence was petite, with a high-pitched speaking voice. She perfected a comical singsong delivery that established her in "dumb" roles. She personified flightiness in the Kennedy shorts, as the scatterbrained Mrs. Kennedy. After the series ended upon Kennedy's death in 1948, she continued to play character roles in films and television. Her best-known TV role was Jenny, the Claverton telephone operator in Lassie. Lake played the role for the entire ten year "farm seasons" of the show (1954–1964), thus becoming the Lassie player with the longest tour of duty on the series.
She played the role of Mama Angel in a 1957 episode of the The Lone Ranger TV series entitled "The Angel and the Outlaw". She also appeared in the first color episode of the TV series Superman in 1957 as a cave woman.
In her later years, Lake appeared as Elvira Norton on an episode of Dragnet entitled "Frauds". She also played a blind date for the character Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, "Lou's First Date". Her last roles were in the TV series Emergency! and Baretta in 1976.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Long Way Home | Grandma Boggs |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Lee Sister #2 |
| 1974 | Welcome to Arrow Beach | Landlady |
| 1974 | Live Again, Die Again | Old Friend |
| 1974 | Happy Anniversary and Goodbye | Mrs. Foster |
| 1973 | Time to Run | |
| 1973 | The Girl Most Likely To... | Clerk |
| 1973 | Frasier, the Sensuous Lion | Old Woman on Porch |
| 1971 | Banyon | Elderly Waitress |
| 1970 | Hollywood Horror House | Mildred |
| 1967 | The Big Mouth | Assaulted Lady (uncredited) |
| 1954 | The Desperado | Mrs. Cameron |
| 1954 | She Couldn't Say No | Mrs. Gruman |
| 1953 | The Flaming Urge | Mrs. Binger |
| 1952 | Fargo | Maggie |
| 1952 | Man from the Black Hills | Martha |
| 1952 | The Maverick | Grandma Watson |
| 1948 | Dig That Gold | Florence Kennedy |
| 1948 | Contest Crazy | Florence Kennedy |
| 1948 | Brother Knows Best | Florence Kennedy |
| 1947 | Do or Diet | Florence - Edgar's Wife |
| 1946 | Riverboat Rhythm | Penelope Beeler Witherspoon |
| 1946 | Little Giant | Housewife (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Motor Maniacs | Florence Kennedy |
| 1946 | Trouble or Nothing | Florence, Edgar's Wife |
| 1946 | I'll Build It Myself | Florence |
| 1945 | It's Your Move | Mrs. Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | What, No Cigarettes | Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | You Drive Me Crazy | Florence Kennedy |
| 1945 | The Big Beef | Florence Kennedy |
| 1944 | Her Primitive Man | Miss Crims |
| 1944 | Feather Your Nest | Florence |
| 1944 | Radio Rampage | Florence |
| 1944 | Goin' to Town | Abigail |
| 1944 | San Diego I Love You | Miss Lake |
| 1944 | Hi, Beautiful | Mrs. Bisbee |
| 1943 | Crash Dive | Doris - Jean's Roommate |
| 1942 | Scattergood Survives a Murder | Phoebe Quentin |
| 1942 | Four Jacks and a Jill | Counter Girl (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Duck Soup | Florence |
| 1939 | Pacific Liner | Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Stagecoach | Nancy Whitney (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Woman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Fifth Avenue Girl | Slavey (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Bachelor Mother | Oliver's Wife (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Condemned Women | Prisoner |
| 1938 | Convicts at Large | Hattie |
| 1938 | Law of the Underworld | Mrs. Billy Winters |
| 1938 | Rebellious Daughters | Dizzy |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Carol Towner |
| 1938 | Next Time I Marry | Justice of the Peace's Wife |
| 1938 | Ears of Experience | Florence |
| 1937 | Edgar & Goliath | Florence, Edgar's wife |
| 1937 | Quality Street | Henrietta Turnbull |
| 1937 | Love in a Bungalow | The 'Ga-Ga' Prospect |
| 1936 | Will Power | Florence Kennedy |
| 1936 | Women Are Trouble | Clara |
| 1936 | Gasoloons | Florence Kennedy |
| 1936 | To Mary - with Love | Salesgirl |
| 1936 | Dummy Ache | Florence |
| 1936 | Muss 'em Up | Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited) |
| 1935 | Two-Fisted | Doris Pritchard |
| 1935 | Edgar Hamlet | Florence |
| 1935 | In Love at 40 | Florence Kennedy |
| 1935 | Brick-a-Brac | Florence |
| 1934 | Wrong Direction | Florence, Edgar's Wife |
| 1934 | The Winnah! | Florence |
| 1934 | Shivers | |
| 1934 | Poisoned Ivory | Florence Kennedy |
| 1934 | Love on a Ladder | Florence |
| 1934 | A Blasted Event | Florence |
| 1933 | The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi | Dizzy |
| 1933 | Art in the Raw | |
| 1933 | Quiet Please! | Florence Kennedy |
| 1933 | Midshipman Jack | Sally Withers |
| 1933 | Only Yesterday | One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited) |
| 1933 | What Fur | Florence |
| 1932 | Giggle Water | Florence |
| 1932 | Night World | Ms. Smith (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Running Hollywood | Autograph Seeker |
| 1932 | Westward Passage | Elmer's Wife |
| 1932 | Ladies of the Jury | Mrs. Dace (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Fish Feathers | Florence Kennedy |
| 1931 | Secret Service | Caroline Mitford |
| 1931 | The Drums of Jeopardy | Anya Karlov |
| 1931 | Hollywood Halfbacks | |
| 1930 | Romance | Susan Van Tuyl |
| 1930 | The Rogue Song | Nadja |
| 1929 | New Year's Eve | Pearl |
| 1929 | Waltzing Around | George's Wife |
| 1929 | Thru Different Eyes | Myrtle |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | Old Woman |
| 1974 | Police Woman | Mrs. Farrell |
| 1972 | Banyon | Taffy |
| 1972 | Emergency! | Martha Wilson |
| 1972 | Emergency! | Maggie |
| 1971 | Nichols | Mrs. Prine |
| 1971 | Nichols | Old Lady |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Martha Dudley |
| 1970 | The Bold Ones: The Senator | Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited) |
| 1969 | The Bold Ones: The New Doctors | Lizzy |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Mrs. Frieda Pine |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Millicent Anderson |
| 1968 | Adam-12 | Woman |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy | Trixie |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy | Little Old Lady |
| 1968 | The Doris Day Show | Adelaide Lindsay |
| 1967 | Mr. Terrific | Maw |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Emily Simpson |
| 1963 | Petticoat Junction | Mrs. Latimer |
| 1959 | Lock-Up | Penny Jackson |
| 1954 | Lassie | Jenny |
| 1953 | Revlon Mirror Theatre | |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | Clara Randolph |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Tessie |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Senior Citizen |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show | Madame President |