Florence Lake

Known for ActingBorn 1904-11-27Died 1980-04-11Charleston, South Carolina, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Trouble or Nothing

Radio Rampage

Ears of Experience

Love in a Bungalow

Edgar Hamlet

Brick-a-Brac

Shivers

A Blasted Event

Dig That Gold

Hi, Beautiful

Banyon

The Maverick

Man from the Black Hills

Contest Crazy

I'll Build It Myself

You Drive Me Crazy

Feather Your Nest

Goin' to Town

Duck Soup

Sock Me to Sleep

Wrong Direction

Poisoned Ivory

Giggle Water

Running Hollywood

Fish Feathers

Hollywood Halfbacks

Two-Fisted

Banyon

Emergency!

Live Again, Die Again

Brother Knows Best

Do or Diet

Edgar & Goliath

Mr. Terrific

The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Rockford Files

Midshipman Jack

What Fur

Thru Different Eyes

Stagecoach

What, No Cigarettes

Her Primitive Man

The Red Skelton Show

Gasoloons

Adam-12

The Desperado

Condemned Women

Next Time I Marry