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Aliases: Florence Silverlake
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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Movie Involvements: 40
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
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 Famous Work
The Rockford Files
(1974) Old WomanStagecoach
(1939) Nancy Whitney (uncredited)The Day of the Locust
(1975) Lee Sister #2Union Pacific
(1939) Woman (uncredited)Crash Dive
(1943) Doris - Jean's RoommateNichols
(1971) Old LadyRomance
(1930) Susan Van TuylOnly Yesterday
(1933) One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited)Acting
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1975 | Grandma Boggs | |
Lee Sister #2 | ||
1974 | Mrs. Foster | |
Old Woman | ||
Landlady | ||
Old Friend | ||
1973 | N/A | |
N/A | ||
1971 | Mrs. Prine | |
Old Lady | ||
1970 | Mildred | |
1967 | Assaulted Lady (uncredited) | |
Maw | ||
1954 | Mrs. Cameron | |
Mrs. Gruman | ||
1953 | Mrs. Binger | |
1952 | Grandma Watson | |
Clara Randolph | ||
Maggie | ||
Martha | ||
1948 | Florence Kennedy | |
Florence Kennedy | ||
Florence Kennedy | ||
1947 | Florence - Edgar's Wife | |
1946 | Florence | |
Florence Kennedy | ||
Housewife (uncredited) | ||
Penelope Beeler Witherspoon | ||
Florence, Edgar's Wife | ||
1945 | Florence Kennedy | |
Florence Kennedy | ||
Mrs. Florence Kennedy | ||
Florence Kennedy | ||
1944 | Florence | |
Miss Lake | ||
Abigail | ||
Miss Crims | ||
Florence | ||
1943 | Doris - Jean's Roommate | |
1942 | Florence | |
Phoebe Quentin | ||
Counter Girl (uncredited) | ||
1939 | Slavey (uncredited) | |
Oliver's Wife (uncredited) | ||
Woman (uncredited) | ||
Nancy Whitney (uncredited) | ||
Miss Smith - Dancing with Crusher (uncredited) | ||
1938 | Hattie | |
Justice of the Peace's Wife | ||
Dizzy | ||
Mrs. Billy Winters | ||
Prisoner | ||
Florence | ||
Carol Towner | ||
1937 | Florence, Edgar's wife | |
Henrietta Turnbull | ||
1936 | Salesgirl | |
Clara | ||
Florence | ||
Florence Kennedy | ||
Tony's Girlfriend (uncredited) | ||
Florence Kennedy | ||
1935 | Doris Pritchard | |
Florence Kennedy | ||
Florence | ||
Florence | ||
1934 | Florence Kennedy | |
Florence | ||
Florence, Edgar's Wife | ||
Florence | ||
1933 | Florence | |
One of Jim's Friends (Uncredited) | ||
Dizzy | ||
Sally Withers | ||
Florence Kennedy | ||
N/A | ||
1932 | Florence Kennedy | |
Elmer's Wife | ||
Ms. Smith (uncredited) | ||
Mrs. Dace (uncredited) | ||
Autograph Seeker | ||
1931 | Caroline Mitford | |
Anya Karlov | ||
1930 | Susan Van Tuyl | |
Nadja | ||
1929 | George's Wife | |
Myrtle | ||
Pearl | ||
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