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82
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Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Florence Lake
Acting
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Movies: 64Series: 18
TMDB ID: 103232
IMDb ID: nm0482142
Known for: Acting
Born: November 27, 1904
Died: April 11, 1980
Age: 75
Place of birth: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1929 - 1975
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.58
Wikidata: Q5460681
Also known as
Florence Silverlake
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Florence Lake.
Long Way Home
as Grandma Boggs
1975 Movie
6.4
The Day of the Locust
as Lee Sister #2
1975 Movie
4.8
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
as Mrs. Foster
1974 Movie
4.6
Welcome to Arrow Beach
as Landlady
1974 Movie
8.0
Live Again, Die Again
as Old Friend
1974 Movie
6.6
The Girl Most Likely To...
as Clerk
1973 Movie
5.7
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
as Old Woman on Porch
1973 Movie
3.8
Time to Run
1973 Movie
Banyon
as Elderly Waitress
1971 Movie
5.3
Savage Intruder
as Mildred
1970 Movie
5.2
The Big Mouth
as Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
1967 Movie
6.6
The Desperado
as Mrs. Cameron
1954 Movie
5.6
She Couldn't Say No
as Mrs. Gruman
1954 Movie
The Flaming Urge
as Mrs. Binger
1953 Movie
The Maverick
as Grandma Watson
1952 Movie
6.5
Fargo
as Maggie
1952 Movie
Man from the Black Hills
as Martha
1952 Movie
Do or Diet
as Florence - Edgar's Wife
1947 Movie
5.1
Little Giant
as Housewife (uncredited)
1946 Movie
5.0
Riverboat Rhythm
as Penelope Beeler Witherspoon
1946 Movie
Trouble or Nothing
as Florence, Edgar's Wife
1946 Movie
The Big Beef
as Florence Kennedy
1945 Movie
You Drive Me Crazy
as Florence Kennedy
1945 Movie
9.5
Hi, Beautiful
as Mrs. Bisbee
1944 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Florence Lake.
7.6
The Rockford Files
as Old Woman • 1 eps
1974 Series
6.2
Police Woman
as Mrs. Farrell • 1 eps
1974 Series
7.0
Banyon
as Taffy • 1 eps
1972 Series
7.9
Emergency!
as Martha Wilson • 1 eps
1972 Series
5.0
Nichols
as Mrs. Prine • 1 eps
1971 Series
7.6
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
as Martha Dudley • 1 eps
1970 Series
3.0
The Bold Ones: The Senator
as Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited) • 1 eps
1970 Series
4.0
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Lizzy • 1 eps
1969 Series
5.8
The Doris Day Show
as Adelaide Lindsay • 1 eps
1968 Series
6.7
Here's Lucy
as Trixie • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.0
Adam-12
as Mrs. Frieda Pine • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.5
Mr. Terrific
as Maw • 1 eps
1967 Series
5.7
Petticoat Junction
as Emily Simpson • 1 eps
1963 Series
6.2
Lock-Up
as Penny Jackson • 1 eps
1959 Series
6.1
Lassie
as Jenny • 1 eps
1954 Series
Revlon Mirror Theatre
1 eps
1953 Series
5.9
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
as Clara Randolph • 1 eps
1952 Series
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Senior Citizen • 1 eps
1951 Series