---
name: "Florence Lee"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/florence-lee"
fi1m_id: "florence-lee"
imdb_id: "nm5681967"
tmdb_id: 2913936
wikidata_id: "Q42901155"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 February 1864"
died: "17 February 1933"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:12:07.692652+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Florence Lee

## Identity

Florence Lee

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/florence-lee
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** florence-lee
- **IMDb ID:** nm5681967
- **TMDB ID:** 2913936
- **Wikidata ID:** Q42901155
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Lee_(born_1864), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42901155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5681967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2913936

Actor. Born 1 February 1864 in Florence, South Carolina, USA. Died 17 February 1933.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 February 1864, Florence, South Carolina, USA
- **Died:** 17 February 1933
- **Also known as:** Florence D. Lee, Florence Dawson Lee 
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Lee_(born_1864), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42901155, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5681967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2913936

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*City Lights*](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Florence Lee (also credited as Florence D. Lee) was an American actress who appeared in over 90 silent films between 1911 and 1931. She specialised in character roles as older women and is best known for her final screen appearance as the blind girl's grandmother in Charlie Chaplin's *City Lights* (1931). She also featured in several Our Gang shorts during the 1920s.

Born Florence Dawson in Florence, South Carolina, in February 1864, she moved to Los Angeles around 1918 and began working in films. Lee retired after *City Lights* and died in Los Angeles on 17 February 1933.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *City Lights* (1931), Fi1m 89, as Her Grandmother — [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *City Lights* (1931), as Her Grandmother — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)
- *Fair and Muddy* (1928), as Grandma Evans
- *The Flame Fighter* (1925), as Mrs. Sparks
- *Yes, Yes, Nanette* (1925), as The mother
- *Speed Mad* (1925), as Grandma Smithers
- *Across the Deadline* (1925), as Mrs Revelle
- *The Trouper* (1922), as Mrs. Selden (as Florence D. Lee)
- *Trimmed* (1922), Actor
- *Society Dogs* (1921), Actor
- *Red Blood and Yellow* (1919), as Jack & Jim's Mother

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