Enid Markey

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.

Known For

The Andy Griffith Show

Mrs. Mendelbright

The Philco Television Playhouse

Studio One

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Cecelia Smithson

The Defenders

Elspeth Clarendon

Omnibus

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
1968	The Love Song of Barney Kempinski	Emily
1968	The Boston Strangler	Edna
1951	The Dagmar Story	Ma Lewis
1949	Take One False Step	Clara (uncredited)
1948	The Naked City	Mrs. Hylton
1945	Snafu	Aunt Emily
1920	Sink or Swim	Princess Alexia
1918	A Lion of the Hills
1918	Tarzan of the Apes	Jane Porter
1918	The Romance of Tarzan	Jane
1918	Mother, I Need You	Eva Stanley
1918	Six-Shooter Andy	Susan Allenby
1918	Cheating the Public	Mary Garvin
1917	The Curse of Eve	Eva Stanley
1917	The Yankee Way	Princess Alexia
1916	The Devil's Double	Naomi Tarleton
1916	Shell 43	Adrienne von Altman
1916	Between Men	Lina Hampdon
1916	Civilization	Katheryn Haldemann
1916	The Captive God	Lolomi
1915	The Roughneck	Avis Hilliard
1915	The Cup of Life	Ruth Fiske
1915	The Iron Strain	Octavia Van Ness
1915	The Taking of Luke McVane	Mercedes
1915	The Darkening Trail	Ruby McGraw
1915	The Despoiler	Sylvia Damien
1915	In the Tennessee Hills	Millie James
1914	Tillie's Punctured Romance	Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)

Year	TV Show	Role
1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1961	The Defenders	Elspeth Clarendon
1960	Bringing Up Buddy	Aunt Violet Flower
1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Mrs. Mendelbright
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Cecelia Smithson
1952	Omnibus
1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Caroline Webster
1950	Lux Video Theatre	Abigail
1948	Studio One
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse