Name
Flora Finch
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1867-06-16
Deathday
1940-01-04 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
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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- 1934 The Scarlet Letter as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
- 1936 Show Boat
- 1913 The Feudists as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
- 1911 The Sleep Walker
- 1911 The Wooing of Winifred
- 1911 Treasure Trove as Patience
- 1912 The Old Silver Watch
- 1913 Vampire of the Desert as Hagar
- 1928 The Haunted House as Mrs.Rackham
- 1914 Love's Old Dream as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
- 1916 A Night Out as Mrs. Marie Haslem
- 1923 Luck as The Plumber's Best Girl
- 1912 A Cure for Pokeritis as Mrs. Sharpe
- 1909 Those Awful Hats as Woman with largest hat
- 1925 The Wrongdoers as Society Woman
- 1909 What Drink Did
- 1911 Her Crowning Glory as The Governess
- 1912 The Troublesome Step-Daughters as The Governess
- 1912 Captain Barnacle's Legacy as Markham's African Sister
- 1924 Roulette as Mrs. Smith-Jones
- 1911 The Strategy of Ann as Headmistress of the School
- 1914 Hearts and Diamonds as Miss Rachel Whipple
- 1912 The First Violin as Helen's Step-Mother
- 1912 Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
- 1912 Saving an Audience as A Suffragette
- 1913 The Pickpocket as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
- 1913 A Lady and Her Maid
- 1912 The Foster Child
- 1912 Irene's Infatuation as Mme. Frangiapani
- 1913 The Little Minister as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
- 1927 Captain Salvation as Mrs. Snifty
- 1930 The Matrimonial Bed as Vosin
- 1930 Sweet Kitty Bellairs as Gossip
- 1910 Muggsy's First Sweetheart as Uplifter
- 1925 Men and Women as Kate
- 1929 The Faker as Emma
- 1921 Orphans of the Storm as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
- 1926 The Brown Derby as Aunt Anna
- 1925 The Live Wire as Pansy Darwin
- 1927 The Cat and the Canary as Susan
- 1914 Polishing Up as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
- 1925 A Kiss for Cinderella as Second Customer
- 1922 When Knighthood Was in Flower as French Countess (uncredited)
- 1937 A Night at the Movies as Movie Patron (uncredited)
- 1937 Way Out West as Maw (uncredited)
- 1937 Mama Steps Out as Old Maid in Hall
- 1936 Women Are Trouble as Society Woman
- 1939 The Women as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
- 1912 An Elephant on Their Hands
- 1914 Bunny Backslides as Flora Winslow - a Widow
- 1914 Tangled Tangoists
- 1929 Say It with Songs as Radio station beauty expert
- 1927 Quality Street as Mary Willoughby
- 1925 The Midnight Girl as Landlady
- 1911 In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath as Mrs. Bunny
- 1936 Postal Inspector as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
- 1914 Sweeney's Christmas Bird as Mrs. Sweeney
- 1911 The New Stenographer as Lucille Montgomery
- 1913 Father's Hatband as Mrs. Henpecko
- 1928 Five and Ten Cent Annie as Wedding Guest
- 1909 The Way of Man as The Mother
- 1912 A Vitagraph Romance as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
- 1913 The Classmate's Frolic as The Director of the School
- 1912 Diamond Cut Diamond as Mrs. Bunce
- 1913 Those Troublesome Tresses as Mrs. Jones
- 1913 Cutey and the Chorus Girls as Flora Scrawny
- 1913 Stenographer Troubles as A Typist
- 1913 When the Press Speaks as Bealla Wilfax
- 1913 The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
- 1909 Mr. Jones Has a Card Party as Guest
- 1908 The Helping Hand as Mrs. Harcourt
- 1912 Bunny's Suicide as Mrs. Spink
- 1912 Freckles as Madame Legrand
- 1912 The Hand Bag as Miss Amanda De Rosville
- 1912 She Cried as Factory Worker
- 1912 Suing Susan as Miss Susan - a Spinster
- 1912 Stenographer Wanted as The Chosen Stenographer
- 1938 Stablemates as Singer at Beulah's
- 1912 An Unusual Honeymoon as Mary McGregor, His Wife
- 1927 Rose of the Golden West as Señora Comba
- 1914 A Train of Incidents as Miss Prim
- 1915 The Smoking Out of Bella Butts as Bella Butts
- 1921 Lessons in Love as Agatha Calthorpe
- 1918 The Great Adventure as Rags's Aunt
- 1929 Come Across as Cassie
- 1913 Three Black Bags as Mrs. Brown
- 1926 Fifth Avenue as Mrs. Pettygrew
- 1926 'Morning, Judge as The Judge's Wife
- 1912 Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers as Mrs Wozenham
- 1914 Mr. Bunny in Disguise as Euphemia Jones
- 1913 Bunny's Dilemma as Aunt Eliza
- 1916 Prudence the Pirate as The Aunt
- 1914 Fixing Their Dads as The Widow Hathaway
- 1915 The Lady of Shalott as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
- 1909 Jones and the Lady Book Agent as The Lady Book Agent
- 1919 Oh Boy! as Miss Penelope Budd
- 1911 In Northern Forests
- 1909 A Wreath in Time as Actress on Stage
- 1925 The Adventurous Sex as The Grandmother
- 1911 Two Overcoats as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
- 1911 The Subduing of Mrs. Nag as Mrs. Nag
- 1924 Monsieur Beaucaire as Duchesse de Montmorency
- 1922 Man Wanted
- 1925 Lover's Island as Amanda Dawson
- 1915 Heavy Villains as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
- 1915 War as Frau Schultz
- 1914 The Locked House as Mrs. Bunny
- 1914 The Vases of Hymen as Annette Kershaw
- 1914 The Old Maid's Baby as Flora the Old Maid
- 1914 Father's Flirtation as Mrs. Bunny
- 1914 A Change in Baggage Checks as Stella Triplight
- 1913 The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction as Edith - The Widow
- 1909 Her First Biscuits
- 1920 Birthright
- 1909 Mrs. Jones Entertains as Leader of the Temperance League
- 1928 The Wife's Relations as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
- 1913 Disciplining Daisy
- 1925 His Buddy's Wife as Mirandy
- 1919 Dawn as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
- 1913 The Golf Game and the Bonnet as Flora - The Wife
- 1927 Her Indiscretion
- 1910 The Troublesome Baby as Mrs. Samuels
- 1913 When Mary Grew Up
- 1927 Are Brunettes Safe? as School Teacher (uncredited)
- 1922 A Social Error
