1867-06-16 London
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).
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The Women | Woman Window Tapper (uncredited) | 1939-09-01 |
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Stablemates | Singer at Beulah's | 1938-10-07 |
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Way Out West | Maw (uncredited) | 1937-04-16 |
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Mama Steps Out | Old Maid in Hall | 1937-02-05 |
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A Night at the Movies | Movie Patron (uncredited) | 1937-11-06 |
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Women Are Trouble | Society Woman | 1936-07-31 |
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Show Boat | 1936-05-17 | |
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Postal Inspector | The Ugly Fraud (uncredited) | 1936-08-16 |
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The Scarlet Letter | Faith Bartle, the Gossip | 1934-09-18 |
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Sweet Kitty Bellairs | Gossip | 1930-09-05 |
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The Matrimonial Bed | Vosin | 1930-08-01 |
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The Faker | Emma | 1929-01-02 |
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Come Across | Cassie | 1929-06-30 |
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Say It with Songs | Radio station beauty expert | 1929-08-05 |
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The Haunted House | Mrs.Rackham | 1928-11-04 |
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The Wife's Relations | Mrs. Cyrus Dodd | 1928-01-13 |
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Five and Ten Cent Annie | Wedding Guest | 1928-05-26 |
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Quality Street | Mary Willoughby | 1927-11-01 |
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Her Indiscretion | 1927-01-06 | |
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Rose of the Golden West | Señora Comba | 1927-09-25 |
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Captain Salvation | Mrs. Snifty | 1927-05-14 |
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The Cat and the Canary | Susan | 1927-08-20 |
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Are Brunettes Safe? | School Teacher (uncredited) | 1927-02-06 |
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The Brown Derby | Aunt Anna | 1926-07-04 |
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Fifth Avenue | Mrs. Pettygrew | 1926-01-24 |
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'Morning, Judge | The Judge's Wife | 1926-09-01 |
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The Midnight Girl | Landlady | 1925-02-14 |
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Lover's Island | Amanda Dawson | 1925-12-30 |
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The Adventurous Sex | The Grandmother | 1925-06-12 |
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The Live Wire | Pansy Darwin | 1925-09-20 |
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Men and Women | Kate | 1925-03-23 |
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A Kiss for Cinderella | Second Customer | 1925-12-22 |
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The Wrongdoers | Society Woman | 1925-09-03 |
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His Buddy's Wife | Mirandy | 1925-10-04 |
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Roulette | Mrs. Smith-Jones | 1924-01-19 |
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Monsieur Beaucaire | Duchesse de Montmorency | 1924-08-11 |
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Luck | The Plumber's Best Girl | 1923-03-01 |
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Man Wanted | 1922-10-13 | |
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When Knighthood Was in Flower | French Countess (uncredited) | 1922-09-15 |
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Lessons in Love | Agatha Calthorpe | 1921-05-01 |
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Orphans of the Storm | A Starving Peasant (uncredited) | 1921-12-28 |
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Birthright | 1920-12-01 | |
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Dawn | Mrs. Natalie Colebrook | 1919-11-30 |
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Oh Boy! | Miss Penelope Budd | 1919-06-22 |
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The Great Adventure | Rags's Aunt | 1918-03-10 |
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Prudence the Pirate | The Aunt | 1916-10-21 |
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A Night Out | Mrs. Marie Haslem | 1916-01-31 |
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War | Frau Schultz | 1915-01-23 |
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Heavy Villains | Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth | 1915-08-14 |
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The Smoking Out of Bella Butts | Bella Butts | 1915-01-08 |
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The Lady of Shalott | Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott | 1915-03-26 |
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A Train of Incidents | Miss Prim | 1914-07-03 |
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Love's Old Dream | Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart | 1914-01-21 |
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The Old Maid's Baby | Flora the Old Maid | 1914-06-26 |
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Mr. Bunny in Disguise | Euphemia Jones | 1914-05-07 |
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Polishing Up | Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor | 1914-08-14 |
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Fixing Their Dads | The Widow Hathaway | 1914-11-18 |
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Father's Flirtation | Mrs. Bunny | 1914-06-20 |
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The Vases of Hymen | Annette Kershaw | 1914-07-10 |
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Tangled Tangoists | 1914-04-23 | |
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A Change in Baggage Checks | Stella Triplight | 1914-02-27 |
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Bunny Backslides | Flora Winslow - a Widow | 1914-10-30 |
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The Locked House | Mrs. Bunny | 1914-08-07 |
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Sweeney's Christmas Bird | Mrs. Sweeney | 1914-12-25 |
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Hearts and Diamonds | Miss Rachel Whipple | 1914-09-25 |
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The Pickpocket | Patrick's Suffragette Wife | 1913-07-21 |
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Vampire of the Desert | Hagar | 1913-05-16 |
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Three Black Bags | Mrs. Brown | 1913-01-13 |
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Bunny's Dilemma | Aunt Eliza | 1913-06-19 |
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The Feudists | Second Wife, Mrs. Craig | 1913-08-23 |
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When Mary Grew Up | 1913-01-28 | |
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The Golf Game and the Bonnet | Flora - The Wife | 1913-12-26 |
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Cutey and the Chorus Girls | Flora Scrawny | 1913-04-09 |
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A Lady and Her Maid | 1913-05-21 | |
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Father's Hatband | Mrs. Henpecko | 1913-10-29 |
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The Little Minister | Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant | 1913-01-13 |
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Disciplining Daisy | 1913-05-07 | |
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The Classmate's Frolic | The Director of the School | 1913-02-04 |
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Those Troublesome Tresses | Mrs. Jones | 1913-08-18 |
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When the Press Speaks | Bealla Wilfax | 1913-01-01 |
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The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty | Mrs. Evelyn Jones | 1913-02-22 |
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Stenographer Troubles | A Typist | 1913-02-06 |
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The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction | Edith - The Widow | 1913-10-02 |
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Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers | Mrs Wozenham | 1912-10-15 |
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A Vitagraph Romance | Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary | 1912-09-17 |
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The Old Silver Watch | 1912-03-19 | |
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The First Violin | Helen's Step-Mother | 1912-02-02 |
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Diamond Cut Diamond | Mrs. Bunce | 1912-05-23 |
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Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes | 1912-03-23 | |
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Saving an Audience | A Suffragette | 1912-08-23 |
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An Elephant on Their Hands | 1912-10-15 | |
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Irene's Infatuation | Mme. Frangiapani | 1912-03-06 |
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The Foster Child | 1912-07-12 | |
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The Unusual Honeymoon | Mary McGregor, His Wife | 1912-12-18 |
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Captain Barnacle's Legacy | Markham's African Sister | 1912-09-04 |
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She Cried | Factory Worker | 1912-10-02 |
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Suing Susan | Miss Susan - a Spinster | 1912-08-09 |
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Stenographer Wanted | The Chosen Stenographer | 1912-02-26 |
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The Hand Bag | Miss Amanda De Rosville | 1912-11-09 |
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Freckles | Madame Legrand | 1912-12-26 |
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The Troublesome Step-Daughters | The Governess | 1912-07-06 |
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Bunny's Suicide | Mrs. Spink | 1912-09-05 |
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A Cure for Pokeritis | Mrs. Sharpe | 1912-12-31 |
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The Strategy of Ann | Headmistress of the School | 1911-07-29 |
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Two Overcoats | Mrs. Maggie Gallagher | 1911-06-24 |
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In Northern Forests | 1911-01-01 | |
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The Wooing of Winifred | 1911-04-11 | |
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The Sleep Walker | 1911-06-23 | |
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In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath | Mrs. Bunny | 1911-12-30 |
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Treasure Trove | Patience | 1911-07-25 |
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The Subduing of Mrs. Nag | Mrs. Nag | 1911-07-14 |
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Her Crowning Glory | The Governess | 1911-09-11 |
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The New Stenographer | Lucille Montgomery | 1911-02-18 |
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The Troublesome Baby | Mrs. Samuels | 1910-11-17 |
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Muggsy's First Sweetheart | Uplifter | 1910-06-30 |
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A Wreath in Time | Actress on Stage | 1909-02-08 |
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Jones and the Lady Book Agent | The Lady Book Agent | 1909-05-10 |
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Mr. Jones Has a Card Party | Guest | 1909-01-21 |
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Mrs. Jones Entertains | Leader of the Temperance League | 1909-01-07 |
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The Way of Man | The Mother | 1909-06-28 |
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What Drink Did | 1909-06-02 | |
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Those Awful Hats | Woman with largest hat | 1909-01-25 |
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Her First Biscuits | 1909-06-17 | |
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The Helping Hand | Mrs. Harcourt | 1908-12-29 |
