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