Biography for
Enid Markey

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Date of Birth

22 February 1894, Dillon, Colorado, USA

Date of Death

15 November 1981, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA

Birth Name

Enid Virginia Markey

Height

5' 4½" (1.64 m)

Spouse

George W. Cobb

(? - 15 March 1948) (his death) 2 children

Trivia

Of Irish extraction.

Attended convent school.

Played sweet, innocent young things in silent features but will always be remembered for portraying the screen's first "Jane" in the Tarzan movies, only four years after Edgar Rice Burroughs published the story.

Left the screen in the early 20s to focus on the theatre.

After a long absence, she returned to 60s TV as one of two doting aunts (the other was Doro Merande) on the short-lived "Bringing Up Buddy" sitcom.

In a career on stage, screen, and television covering more than six decades, actress Enid Markey is probably best known for two roles almost fifty years apart: The original Jane Porter in the first-ever Tarzan film (1918's "Tarzan of the Apes," opposite Elmo Lincoln's Tarzan) and in the recurring role of Mrs. Mendlebright on "The Andy Griffith Show" in the 1960s.

Said she left films because "I was tired of making faces, I wanted to learn how to act."

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