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