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