American actress of stage, film and television
Of Irish extraction.
Attended convent school.
Played sweet, innocent young things in silent features but will always be remembered for portraying the screens first "Jane" in the Tarzan movies, only four years after Edgar Rice Burroughs published the story.
Left the screen in the early 20s to focus on the theatre.
After a long absence, she returned to 60s TV as one of two doting aunts (the other was Doro Merande) on the short-lived "Bringing Up Buddy" sitcom.
In a career on stage, screen, and television covering more than six decades, actress Enid Markey is probably best known for two roles almost fifty years apart: The original Jane Porter in the first-ever Tarzan film (1918s "Tarzan of the Apes," opposite Elmo Lincolns Tarzan) and in the recurring role of Mrs. Mendlebright on "The Andy Griffith Show" in the 1960s.
Said she left films because "I was tired of making faces, I wanted to learn how to act."
Had a successful career on the stage, after being hired by the New York-based producer A.H. Woods in 1920. Her first part was in the farce "Up in Mabels Room". While in New York, she and her mother lived at the Algonquin Hotel.
Performed on radio in the CBS serial "Woman of Courage", in "Grand Central Station" and "Theatre Guild of the Air".
