Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 27, 1904
Died
Apr 11, 1980
Place of Birth
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Credits
113 titles
Florence Lake
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.
Known For
Filmography
Long Way Home
Grandma Boggs
The Day of the Locust
Lee Sister #2
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
Mrs. Foster
The Rockford Files
Old Woman
Police Woman
Mrs. Farrell
Welcome To Arrow Beach
Landlady
Live Again, Die Again
Old Friend
The Girl Most Likely To...
Clerk
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
Old Woman on Porch
Time to Run
Banyon
Taffy
Emergency!
Martha Wilson
Nichols
Mrs. Prine
Banyon
Elderly Waitress
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Martha Dudley
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Woman Exiting Elevator (uncredited)
Savage Intruder
Mildred
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Lizzy
The Doris Day Show
Adelaide Lindsay
Here's Lucy
Trixie
Adam-12
Mrs. Frieda Pine
The Big Mouth
Assaulted Lady (uncredited)
Mr. Terrific
Maw
Petticoat Junction
Emily Simpson
Lock-Up
Penny Jackson
Lassie
Jenny
The Desperado
Mrs. Cameron
She Couldn't Say No
Mrs. Gruman
The Flaming Urge
Mrs. Binger
Revlon Mirror Theatre
The Maverick
Grandma Watson
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Clara Randolph
Fargo
Maggie
Man from the Black Hills
Martha
As We Forgive
The Red Skelton Show
Senior Citizen
Contest Crazy
Florence Kennedy
Dig That Gold
Florence Kennedy
Brother Knows Best
Florence Kennedy
Do or Diet
Florence - Edgar's Wife
I'll Build It Myself
Florence
Motor Maniacs
Florence Kennedy
Little Giant
Housewife (uncredited)
Riverboat Rhythm
Penelope Beeler Witherspoon
Trouble or Nothing
Florence, Edgar's Wife
The Big Beef
Florence Kennedy
You Drive Me Crazy
Florence Kennedy
It's Your Move
Mrs. Florence Kennedy
What, No Cigarettes
Florence Kennedy
Hi, Beautiful
Mrs. Bisbee