Florence Lake
Known for: Acting
Born: November 27, 1904
Died: April 11, 1980
Place of birth: Charleston, 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.
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Filmography
95 movies · 18 TV shows, newest first
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Long Way Home
1975
6.4
The Day of the Locust
1975
5.2
Happy Anniversary and Goodbye
1974
7.6
The Rockford Files
1974
6.4
Police Woman
1974
5.2
Welcome to Arrow Beach
1974
7.8
Live Again, Die Again
1974
6.6
The Girl Most Likely To...
1973
6.5
Frasier, the Sensuous Lion
1973
5.0
Time to Run
1973
8.0
Banyon
1972
8.0
Emergency!
1972
6.3
Nichols
1971
9.0
Banyon
1971
7.7
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970
4.7
The Bold Ones: The Senator
1970
5.3
Savage Intruder
1970
4.8
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
1969
6.2
The Doris Day Show
1968
6.7
Here's Lucy
1968
7.1
Adam-12
1968
5.3
The Big Mouth
1967
7.7
Mr. Terrific
1967
5.9
Petticoat Junction
1963
6.4
Lock-Up
1959
6.3
Lassie
1954
7.2
The Desperado
1954
5.7
She Couldn't Say No
1954
7.0
The Flaming Urge
1953
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Revlon Mirror Theatre
1953
9.0
The Maverick
1952
6.2
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1952
6.6
Fargo
1952
9.0
Man from the Black Hills
1952NR
As We Forgive
1952
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
19519.0
Contest Crazy
19489.8
Dig That Gold
19488.0
Brother Knows Best
1948
8.0
Do or Diet
19479.0
I'll Build It Myself
19467.0
Motor Maniacs
1946
5.3
Little Giant
1946
6.3
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
10.0
Trouble or Nothing
1946
7.0
The Big Beef
1945
9.0
You Drive Me Crazy
19457.0
It's Your Move
19457.5
What, No Cigarettes
1945
9.8
Hi, Beautiful
19449.0
Feather Your Nest
1944
6.8
San Diego I Love You
1944
9.0
Goin' to Town
1944
7.5
Her Primitive Man
194410.0
Radio Rampage
1944
6.4
Crash Dive
19439.0
Duck Soup
1942
5.9
Scattergood Survives a Murder
1942
6.5
Four Jacks and a Jill
1942
7.0
Fifth Avenue Girl
1939
5.4
When Tomorrow Comes
1939
7.2
Bachelor Mother
1939
6.7
Union Pacific
1939
7.6
Stagecoach
1939
5.5
Pacific Liner
1939
7.0
Convicts at Large
1938
7.2
Next Time I Marry
1938
6.0
Rebellious Daughters
1938
5.8
Law of the Underworld
1938
7.3
Condemned Women
193810.0
Ears of Experience
1938
6.0
I Met My Love Again
19388.0
Edgar & Goliath
1937
10.0
Love in a Bungalow
1937
5.8
Quality Street
1937
5.7
To Mary - with Love
1936
7.0
Women Are Trouble
1936
5.5
Dummy Ache
1936
7.0
Will Power
1936
6.2
Muss 'em Up
19367.5
Gasoloons
1936
8.5
Two-Fisted
19357.0
In Love at 40
193510.0
Edgar Hamlet
19359.0
Sock Me to Sleep
193510.0
Brick-a-Brac
193510.0
Shivers
1934
9.0
Poisoned Ivory
193410.0
A Blasted Event
19347.0
The Winnah!
19349.0
Wrong Direction
19343.7
Love on a Ladder
1934
8.0
What Fur
1933
7.1
Only Yesterday
1933
5.3
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
1933
8.0
Midshipman Jack
19336.0
Quiet Please!
19333.3
Art in the Raw
19339.0
Fish Feathers
19329.0
Giggle Water
1932
6.3
Westward Passage
1932
6.8
Night World
1932
6.8
Ladies of the Jury
19329.0
Running Hollywood
19329.0
Hollywood Halfbacks
1931
6.7
Secret Service
1931
5.5
The Drums of Jeopardy
1931
6.5
Romance
1930
6.5
The Rogue Song
1930
7.0
Waltzing Around
1929
8.0
Thru Different Eyes
1929
7.0
New Year's Eve
19299.0
Parlor, Bedroom and Wrath
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