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