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Flora Finch

Born
June 16, 1867
Died
January 4, 1940
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
The Women
(1939)
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
The Cat and the Canary
(1927)
Susan
Show Boat
(1936)
Way Out West
(1937)
Maw (uncredited)
Orphans of the Storm
(1921)
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Full Filmography
Acting
The Helping Hand
(1908)
Mrs. Harcourt
What Drink Did
(1909)
Those Awful Hats
(1909)
Woman with largest hat
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
(1909)
Guest
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
(1909)
The Lady Book Agent
The Way of Man
(1909)
The Mother
A Wreath in Time
(1909)
Actress on Stage
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
(1910)
Uplifter
The New Stenographer
(1911)
Lucille Montgomery
The Sleep Walker
(1911)
Her Crowning Glory
(1911)
The Governess
The Wooing of Winifred
(1911)
Treasure Trove
(1911)
Patience
The Strategy of Ann
(1911)
Headmistress of the School
In Northern Forests
(1911)
Two Overcoats
(1911)
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
(1911)
Mrs. Bunny
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
(1911)
Mrs. Nag
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
(1912)
Markham's African Sister
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
(1912)
The Governess
The Old Silver Watch
(1912)
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
(1912)
Mrs Wozenham
The Hand Bag
(1912)
Miss Amanda De Rosville
Suing Susan
(1912)
Miss Susan - a Spinster
Saving an Audience
(1912)
A Suffragette
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
(1912)
The First Violin
(1912)
Helen's Step-Mother
Stenographer Wanted
(1912)
The Chosen Stenographer
A Cure for Pokeritis
(1912)
Mrs. Sharpe
Irene's Infatuation
(1912)
Mme. Frangiapani
The Foster Child
(1912)
A Vitagraph Romance
(1912)
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
The Unusual Honeymoon
(1912)
Mary McGregor, His Wife
An Elephant on Their Hands
(1912)
Bunny's Suicide
(1912)
Mrs. Spink
She Cried
(1912)
Factory Worker
Diamond Cut Diamond
(1912)
Mrs. Bunce
Freckles
(1912)
Madame Legrand
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
(1913)
Flora Scrawny
Those Troublesome Tresses
(1913)
Mrs. Jones
Stenographer Troubles
(1913)
A Typist
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
(1913)
Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Father's Hatband
(1913)
Mrs. Henpecko
The Classmate's Frolic
(1913)
The Director of the School
The Feudists
(1913)
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Three Black Bags
(1913)
Mrs. Brown
Vampire of the Desert
(1913)
Hagar
The Little Minister
(1913)
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
The Pickpocket
(1913)
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
A Lady and Her Maid
(1913)
Bunny's Dilemma
(1913)
Aunt Eliza
Tangled Tangoists
(1914)
Love's Old Dream
(1914)
Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
Bunny Backslides
(1914)
Flora Winslow - a Widow
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
(1914)
Mrs. Sweeney
Polishing Up
(1914)
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
Hearts and Diamonds
(1914)
Miss Rachel Whipple
Fixing Their Dads
(1914)
The Widow Hathaway
A Train of Incidents
(1914)
Miss Prim
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
(1914)
Euphemia Jones
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
(1915)
Bella Butts
The Lady of Shalott
(1915)
Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
A Night Out
(1916)
Mrs. Marie Haslem
Prudence the Pirate
(1916)
The Aunt
The Great Adventure
(1918)
Rags's Aunt
Oh Boy!
(1919)
Miss Penelope Budd
Lessons in Love
(1921)
Salome
(1921)
Orphans of the Storm
(1921)
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
When Knighthood Was in Flower
(1922)
French Countess (uncredited)
Luck
(1923)
The Plumber's Best Girl
Roulette
(1924)
Mrs. Smith-Jones
Monsieur Beaucaire
(1924)
Duchesse de Montmorency
The Adventurous Sex
(1925)
The Grandmother
The Midnight Girl
(1925)
Landlady
The Wrongdoers
(1925)
Society Woman
A Kiss for Cinderella
(1925)
Second Customer
Men and Women
(1925)
Kate
The Live Wire
(1925)
Pansy Darwin
Fifth Avenue
(1926)
Mrs. Pettygrew
'Morning, Judge
(1926)
The Judge's Wife
The Brown Derby
(1926)
Aunt Anna
Rose of the Golden West
(1927)
Señora Comba
Quality Street
(1927)
Mary Willoughby
The Cat and the Canary
(1927)
Susan
Captain Salvation
(1927)
Mrs. Snifty
The Haunted House
(1928)
Mrs.Rackham
Come Across
(1929)
Cassie
Say It with Songs
(1929)
Radio station beauty expert
The Faker
(1929)
Emma
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
(1930)
Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed
(1930)
Vosin
The Scarlet Letter
(1934)
Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Women Are Trouble
(1936)
Society Woman
Postal Inspector
(1936)
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Show Boat
(1936)
Mama Steps Out
(1937)
Old Maid in Hall
A Night at the Movies
(1937)
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Way Out West
(1937)
Maw (uncredited)
Stablemates
(1938)
Singer at Beulah's
The Women
(1939)
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
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