Florence Lake
Known For
Acting
Born
1904-11-27 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Died
1980-04-11
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.
Most Known For
The Rockford Files
as Old Woman
Adam-12
as Mrs. Frieda Pine
Adam-12
as Millicent Anderson
Adam-12
as Woman
The Red Skelton Show
as Tessie
The Red Skelton Show
as Senior Citizen
The Red Skelton Show
as Madame President
Emergency!
as Martha Wilson
Emergency!
as Maggie
Police Woman
as Mrs. Farrell
Lassie
as Jenny
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Martha Dudley
Petticoat Junction
as Emily Simpson
Petticoat Junction
as Mrs. Latimer
Here's Lucy
as Trixie
Here's Lucy
as Little Old Lady
The Doris Day Show
as Adelaide Lindsay
Lock-Up
as Penny Jackson
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Clara Randolph
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Lizzy