Flora Finch
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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).
Known for
Credits
The Women (1939)
as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Way Out West (1937)
as Maw (uncredited)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
as Susan
Fifth Avenue (1926)
as Mrs. Pettygrew
Show Boat (1936)
Actor
A Vitagraph Romance (1912)
as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
as French Countess (uncredited)
Dawn (1919)
as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
The Little Minister (1913)
as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Are Brunettes Safe? (1927)
as School Teacher (uncredited)
Roulette (1924)
as Mrs. Smith-Jones
A Night at the Movies (1937)
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
as Vosin
Rose of the Golden West (1927)
as Señora Comba
Those Awful Hats (1909)
as Woman with largest hat
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Captain Salvation (1927)
as Mrs. Snifty
Postal Inspector (1936)
as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble (1936)
as Society Woman
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
as Mrs. Sharpe
Say It with Songs (1929)
as Radio station beauty expert
His Buddy's Wife (1925)
as Mirandy
Her First Biscuits (1909)
Actor
Mama Steps Out (1937)
as Old Maid in Hall
Her Indiscretion (1927)
Actor
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
as Second Customer
The Brown Derby (1926)
as Aunt Anna
The Wrongdoers (1925)
as Society Woman
Stablemates (1938)
as Singer at Beulah's
A Lady and Her Maid (1913)
Actor
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
as Wedding Guest
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes (1912)
Actor
The Haunted House (1928)
as Mrs.Rackham
A Train of Incidents (1914)
as Miss Prim
Man Wanted (1922)
Actor
Oh Boy! (1919)
as Miss Penelope Budd
Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
as Uplifter
Three Black Bags (1913)
as Mrs. Brown
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
as Gossip
Lover's Island (1925)
as Amanda Dawson
Hearts and Diamonds (1914)
as Miss Rachel Whipple
Vampire of the Desert (1913)
as Hagar
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
as Leader of the Temperance League
The Unusual Honeymoon (1912)
as Mary McGregor, His Wife
War (1915)
as Frau Schultz
The Faker (1929)
as Emma
The Troublesome Baby (1910)
as Mrs. Samuels
Luck (1923)
as The Plumber's Best Girl
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
as Guest
Father's Flirtation (1914)
as Mrs. Bunny
Tangled Tangoists (1914)
Actor
The Midnight Girl (1925)
as Landlady
The Way of Man (1909)
as The Mother
Captain Barnacle's Legacy (1912)
as Markham's African Sister
Quality Street (1927)
as Mary Willoughby
When Mary Grew Up (1913)
Actor
She Cried (1912)
as Factory Worker
Mr. Bunny in Disguise (1914)
as Euphemia Jones
The First Violin (1912)
as Helen's Step-Mother
Father's Hatband (1913)
as Mrs. Henpecko
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
as Duchesse de Montmorency
The Old Silver Watch (1912)
Actor
The Great Adventure (1918)
as Rags's Aunt
The Adventurous Sex (1925)
as The Grandmother
Prudence the Pirate (1916)
as The Aunt
Come Across (1929)
as Cassie
The Classmate's Frolic (1913)
as The Director of the School
The Strategy of Ann (1911)
as Headmistress of the School
The Wife's Relations (1928)
as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Heavy Villains (1915)
as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
The Locked House (1914)
as Mrs. Bunny
Saving an Audience (1912)
as A Suffragette
A Change in Baggage Checks (1914)
as Stella Triplight
Love's Old Dream (1914)
as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
A Night Out (1916)
as Mrs. Marie Haslem
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction (1913)
as Edith - The Widow
What Drink Did (1909)
Actor
The Helping Hand (1908)
as Mrs. Harcourt
Her Crowning Glory (1911)
as The Governess
The Vases of Hymen (1914)
as Annette Kershaw
Men and Women (1925)
as Kate
The Golf Game and the Bonnet (1913)
as Flora - The Wife
The Wooing of Winifred (1911)
Actor
Bunny's Suicide (1912)
as Mrs. Spink
Birthright (1920)
Actor
'Morning, Judge (1926)
as The Judge's Wife
The Old Maid's Baby (1914)
as Flora the Old Maid
A Wreath in Time (1909)
as Actress on Stage
Lessons in Love (1921)
as Agatha Calthorpe
Diamond Cut Diamond (1912)
as Mrs. Bunce
The Sleep Walker (1911)
Actor
The Live Wire (1925)
as Pansy Darwin
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag (1911)
as Mrs. Nag
In Northern Forests (1911)
Actor
Stenographer Troubles (1913)
as A Typist
The Feudists (1913)
as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers (1912)
as Mrs Wozenham
Stenographer Wanted (1912)
as The Chosen Stenographer
Treasure Trove (1911)
as Patience
Polishing Up (1914)
as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
An Elephant on Their Hands (1912)
Actor
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty (1913)
as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Disciplining Daisy (1913)
Actor
Irene's Infatuation (1912)
as Mme. Frangiapani
The Hand Bag (1912)
as Miss Amanda De Rosville
Fixing Their Dads (1914)
as The Widow Hathaway
Bunny Backslides (1914)
as Flora Winslow - a Widow
Suing Susan (1912)
as Miss Susan - a Spinster
Cutey and the Chorus Girls (1913)
as Flora Scrawny
Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)
as The Lady Book Agent
The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912)
as The Governess
When the Press Speaks (1913)
as Bealla Wilfax
Those Troublesome Tresses (1913)
as Mrs. Jones
The Lady of Shalott (1915)
as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath (1911)
as Mrs. Bunny
Bunny's Dilemma (1913)
as Aunt Eliza
Sweeney's Christmas Bird (1914)
as Mrs. Sweeney
The Pickpocket (1913)
as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
The New Stenographer (1911)
as Lucille Montgomery
Two Overcoats (1911)
as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts (1915)
as Bella Butts
The Foster Child (1912)
Actor
Freckles (1912)
as Madame Legrand