Flora Finch
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 16, 1867
- Died
- January 4, 1940 (aged 72)
- Birthplace
- London
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Flora Finch (17 June 1867 – 4 January 1940) was an English-born vaudevillian, stage and film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company. Finch was born into a music hall and travelling theatrical family in London and was taken to the United States as a young child. She kept up the family tradition and worked in theatre and the vaudeville circuit right up until her 30s. She had her first film roles at the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company starting in 1908. There she worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Mack Sennett (with whom she was romantically involved for a short time) and Charlie Chaplin amongst others. Starting in 1910 at Vitagraph, she was paired with John Bunny for the first of 160 very popular shorts made between 1910 and 1915. These shorts, known as "Bunnygraphs", "Bunnyfinches", and "Bunnyfinchgraphs", established Finch and Bunny as the first popular comedy team in films. The duo became a short-lived trio, when Mabel Normand arrived at the studio. After Bunny's death in 1915 she continued to make comedy shorts, but with less success. She started her own production company, "Flora Finch Productions", but was never able to regain her popularity. One of her best-known roles in the later silent years was Aunt Susan in Paul Leni's The Cat and the Canary (1927). She found film work in the sound era, but only in small supporting parts. The Scarlet Letter (1934) gave her one of her more substantial roles in sound films, and she had a cameo in one of Laurel and Hardy's best-known films Way Out West (1937). Her last film was The Women (1939).
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Filmography
The Women
Movie · as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Stablemates
Movie · as Singer at Beulah's
A Night at the Movies
Movie · as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Way Out West
Movie · as Maw (uncredited)
Mama Steps Out
Movie · as Old Maid in Hall
Show Boat
Movie
Women Are Trouble
Movie · as Society Woman
Postal Inspector
Movie · as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
The Scarlet Letter
Movie · as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed
Movie · as Vosin
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Movie · as Gossip
The Faker
Movie · as Emma
Say It with Songs
Movie · as Radio station beauty expert
Come Across
Movie · as Cassie
The Haunted House
Movie · as Mrs.Rackham
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Movie · as Wedding Guest
The Wife's Relations
Movie · as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Captain Salvation
Movie · as Mrs. Snifty
The Cat and the Canary
Movie · as Susan
Quality Street
Movie · as Mary Willoughby
Rose of the Golden West
Movie · as Señora Comba
Her Indiscretion
Movie
Are Brunettes Safe?
Movie · as School Teacher (uncredited)
The Brown Derby
Movie · as Aunt Anna
Fifth Avenue
Movie · as Mrs. Pettygrew
'Morning, Judge
Movie · as The Judge's Wife
The Wrongdoers
Movie · as Society Woman
Men and Women
Movie · as Kate
The Live Wire
Movie · as Pansy Darwin
A Kiss for Cinderella
Movie · as Second Customer
The Midnight Girl
Movie · as Landlady
The Adventurous Sex
Movie · as The Grandmother
Lover's Island
Movie · as Amanda Dawson
His Buddy's Wife
Movie · as Mirandy
Roulette
Movie · as Mrs. Smith-Jones
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie · as Duchesse de Montmorency
Luck
Movie · as The Plumber's Best Girl
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Movie · as French Countess (uncredited)
Man Wanted
Movie
A Social Error
Movie
Orphans of the Storm
Movie · as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lessons in Love
Movie · as Agatha Calthorpe
Birthright
Movie
Oh Boy!
Movie · as Miss Penelope Budd
Dawn
Movie · as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
The Great Adventure
Movie · as Rags's Aunt
A Night Out
Movie · as Mrs. Marie Haslem
Prudence the Pirate
Movie · as The Aunt
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
Movie · as Bella Butts
The Lady of Shalott
Movie · as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
Heavy Villains
Movie · as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
War
Movie · as Frau Schultz
Love's Old Dream
Movie · as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
Hearts and Diamonds
Movie · as Miss Rachel Whipple
Polishing Up
Movie · as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
Bunny Backslides
Movie · as Flora Winslow - a Widow
Tangled Tangoists
Movie
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Movie · as Mrs. Sweeney
A Train of Incidents
Movie · as Miss Prim
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
Movie · as Euphemia Jones
Fixing Their Dads
Movie · as The Widow Hathaway
The Locked House
Movie · as Mrs. Bunny
The Vases of Hymen
Movie · as Annette Kershaw
The Old Maid's Baby
Movie · as Flora the Old Maid
Father's Flirtation
Movie · as Mrs. Bunny
A Change in Baggage Checks
Movie · as Stella Triplight
The Feudists
Movie · as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Vampire of the Desert
Movie · as Hagar
A Lady and Her Maid
Movie
The Pickpocket
Movie · as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
The Little Minister
Movie · as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Father's Hatband
Movie · as Mrs. Henpecko
The Classmate's Frolic
Movie · as The Director of the School
Those Troublesome Tresses
Movie · as Mrs. Jones
Stenographer Troubles
Movie · as A Typist
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Movie · as Flora Scrawny
When the Press Speaks
Movie · as Bealla Wilfax
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Movie · as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Three Black Bags
Movie · as Mrs. Brown
Bunny's Dilemma
Movie · as Aunt Eliza
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
Movie · as Edith - The Widow
Disciplining Daisy
Movie
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
Movie · as Flora - The Wife
When Mary Grew Up
Movie
The Old Silver Watch
Movie
A Cure for Pokeritis
Movie · as Mrs. Sharpe
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Movie · as The Governess
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Movie · as Markham's African Sister
The First Violin
Movie · as Helen's Step-Mother
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Movie
Saving an Audience
Movie · as A Suffragette
The Foster Child
Movie
Irene's Infatuation
Movie · as Mme. Frangiapani
An Elephant on Their Hands
Movie
A Vitagraph Romance
Movie · as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Diamond Cut Diamond
Movie · as Mrs. Bunce
Bunny's Suicide
Movie · as Mrs. Spink
Freckles
Movie · as Madame Legrand
The Hand Bag
Movie · as Miss Amanda De Rosville
She Cried
Movie · as Factory Worker
Suing Susan
Movie · as Miss Susan - a Spinster
Stenographer Wanted
Movie · as The Chosen Stenographer
An Unusual Honeymoon
Movie · as Mary McGregor, His Wife
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Movie · as Mrs Wozenham
Treasure Trove
Movie · as Patience
The Sleep Walker
Movie
The Wooing of Winifred
Movie
Her Crowning Glory
Movie · as The Governess
The Strategy of Ann
Movie · as Headmistress of the School
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
Movie · as Mrs. Bunny
The New Stenographer
Movie · as Lucille Montgomery
In Northern Forests
Movie
Two Overcoats
Movie · as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Movie · as Mrs. Nag
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Movie · as Uplifter
The Troublesome Baby
Movie · as Mrs. Samuels
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I
Movie · as Ophelia St. Clare
Those Awful Hats
Movie · as Woman with largest hat
What Drink Did
Movie
The Way of Man
Movie · as The Mother
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Movie · as Guest
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Movie · as The Lady Book Agent
A Wreath in Time
Movie · as Actress on Stage
Her First Biscuits
Movie
Mrs. Jones Entertains
Movie · as Leader of the Temperance League
The Helping Hand
Movie · as Mrs. Harcourt