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