Flora Finch
Acting
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
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movieThe Women
1939
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
movieStablemates
1938
Singer at Beulah's
movieA Night at the Movies
1937
Movie Patron (uncredited)
movieWay Out West
1937
Maw (uncredited)
movieMama Steps Out
1937
Old Maid in Hall
moviePostal Inspector
1936
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
movieWomen Are Trouble
1936
Society Woman
movieThe Scarlet Letter
1934
Faith Bartle, the Gossip
movieSay It with Songs
1929
Radio station beauty expert
movieCome Across
1929
Cassie
movieThe Haunted House
1928
Mrs.Rackham
movieFive and Ten Cent Annie
1928
Wedding Guest
movieThe Wife's Relations
1928
Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
movieQuality Street
1927
Mary Willoughby
movieRose of the Golden West
1927
Señora Comba
movieCaptain Salvation
1927
Mrs. Snifty
movieAre Brunettes Safe?
1927
School Teacher (uncredited)
movie'Morning, Judge
1926
The Judge's Wife
movieThe Brown Derby
1926
Aunt Anna
movieFifth Avenue
1926
Mrs. Pettygrew
Lover's Island
1925
Amanda Dawson
movieA Kiss for Cinderella
1925
Second Customer
movieHis Buddy's Wife
1925
Mirandy
movieThe Live Wire
1925
Pansy Darwin
movieThe Wrongdoers
1925
Society Woman
movieThe Adventurous Sex
1925
The Grandmother
movieThe Midnight Girl
1925
Landlady
movieMonsieur Beaucaire
1924
Duchesse de Montmorency
movieRoulette
1924
Mrs. Smith-Jones
movieLuck
1923
The Plumber's Best Girl
movieWhen Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
French Countess (uncredited)
movieOrphans of the Storm
1921
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
movieLessons in Love
1921
Agatha Calthorpe
movieDawn
1919
Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
movieOh Boy!
1919
Miss Penelope Budd
movieThe Great Adventure
1918
Rags's Aunt
moviePrudence the Pirate
1916
The Aunt
movieA Night Out
1916
Mrs. Marie Haslem
Heavy Villains
1915
Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
The Lady of Shalott
1915
Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
War
1915
Frau Schultz
movieThe Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915
Bella Butts
movieSweeney's Christmas Bird
1914
Mrs. Sweeney
Fixing Their Dads
1914
The Widow Hathaway
movieBunny Backslides
1914
Flora Winslow - a Widow
movieHearts and Diamonds
1914
Miss Rachel Whipple
moviePolishing Up
1914
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
The Vases of Hymen
1914
Annette Kershaw
The Old Maid's Baby
1914
Flora the Old Maid
movieFather's Flirtation
1914
Mrs. Bunny
movieMr. Bunny in Disguise
1914
Euphemia Jones
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914
Stella Triplight
Love's Old Dream
1914
Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
movieFather's Hatband
1913
Mrs. Henpecko
movieThe Feudists
1913
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
movieThose Troublesome Tresses
1913
Mrs. Jones
movieThe Pickpocket
1913
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
movieBunny's Dilemma
1913
Aunt Eliza
The Classmate's Frolic
1913
The Director of the School
movieThe Little Minister
1913
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
When the Press Speaks
1913
Bealla Wilfax
movieA Cure for Pokeritis
1912
Mrs. Sharpe
movieFreckles
1912
Madame Legrand
movieThe Unusual Honeymoon
1912
Mary McGregor, His Wife
The Hand Bag
1912
Miss Amanda De Rosville
She Cried
1912
Factory Worker
movieA Vitagraph Romance
1912
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Bunny's Suicide
1912
Mrs. Spink
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
1912
Markham's African Sister
Saving an Audience
1912
A Suffragette
Suing Susan
1912
Miss Susan - a Spinster
movieDiamond Cut Diamond
1912
Mrs. Bunce
Irene's Infatuation
1912
Mme. Frangiapani
Stenographer Wanted
1912
The Chosen Stenographer
movieThe First Violin
1912
Helen's Step-Mother
movieIn the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911
Mrs. Bunny
movieHer Crowning Glory
1911
The Governess
The Strategy of Ann
1911
Headmistress of the School
Two Overcoats
1911
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
movieThe New Stenographer
1911
Lucille Montgomery
movieThe Way of Man
1909
The Mother
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909
The Lady Book Agent
A Wreath in Time
1909
Actress on Stage
movieThose Awful Hats
1909
Woman with largest hat
Mrs. Jones Entertains
1909
Leader of the Temperance League
The Helping Hand
1908
Mrs. Harcourt