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.

Most Known For

The Andy Griffith Show

as Mrs. Mendelbright

Studio One

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Defenders

as Elspeth Clarendon

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Cecelia Smithson

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Omnibus

Lux Video Theatre

as Abigail

The Naked City

as Mrs. Hylton

Bringing Up Buddy

as Aunt Violet Flower

The Boston Strangler

as Edna

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Caroline Webster

Sink or Swim

as Princess Alexia

Tarzan of the Apes

as Jane Porter

Take One False Step

as Clara (uncredited)

Tillie's Punctured Romance

as Country Girl in 'A Thief's Fate' (uncredited)

The Love Song of Barney Kempinski

as Emily

Cheating the Public

as Mary Garvin

The Cup of Life

as Ruth Fiske

Snafu

as Aunt Emily