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Flora Finch
Born · June 16, 1867
Died · January 4, 1940 (72 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth:
Bio
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).
The Women
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
7.1
1939
Stablemates
Singer at Beulah's
4.5
1938
A Night at the Movies
Movie Patron (uncredited)
5.2
1937
Way Out West
Maw (uncredited)
7.0
1937
Mama Steps Out
Old Maid in Hall
6.0
1937
Postal Inspector
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
6.2
1936
Women Are Trouble
Society Woman
6.0
1936
Show Boat
6.8
1936
The Scarlet Letter
Faith Bartle, the Gossip
4.9
1934
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Gossip
5.0
1930
The Matrimonial Bed
Vosin
5.7
1930
Say It with Songs
Radio station beauty expert
5.3
1929
Come Across
Cassie
0.0
1929
The Faker
Emma
0.0
1929
The Haunted House
Mrs.Rackham
0.0
1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Wedding Guest
0.0
1928
Quality Street
Mary Willoughby
6.9
1927
Rose of the Golden West
Señora Comba
0.0
1927
The Cat and the Canary
Susan
6.8
1927
Captain Salvation
Mrs. Snifty
6.8
1927
'Morning, Judge
The Judge's Wife
0.0
1926
The Brown Derby
Aunt Anna
6.0
1926
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Pettygrew
0.0
1926
Lover's Island
Amanda Dawson
0.0
1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
Second Customer
5.0
1925
The Live Wire
Pansy Darwin
0.0
1925
The Wrongdoers
Society Woman
0.0
1925
The Adventurous Sex
The Grandmother
0.0
1925
Men and Women
Kate
0.0
1925
The Midnight Girl
Landlady
5.2
1925
Monsieur Beaucaire
Duchesse de Montmorency
5.9
1924
Roulette
Mrs. Smith-Jones
0.0
1924
Luck
The Plumber's Best Girl
0.0
1923
Man Wanted
0.0
1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
French Countess (uncredited)
5.7
1922
Orphans of the Storm
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
6.9
1921
Lessons in Love
0.0
1921
Oh Boy!
Miss Penelope Budd
0.0
1919
The Great Adventure
Rags's Aunt
0.0
1918
Prudence the Pirate
The Aunt
0.0
1916
A Night Out
Mrs. Marie Haslem
0.0
1916
The Lady of Shalott
Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
0.0
1915
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
Bella Butts
0.0
1915
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Mrs. Sweeney
0.0
1914
Fixing Their Dads
The Widow Hathaway
0.0
1914
Bunny Backslides
Flora Winslow - a Widow
0.0
1914
Hearts and Diamonds
Miss Rachel Whipple
5.0
1914
Polishing Up
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
0.0
1914
A Train of Incidents
Miss Prim
0.0
1914
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
Euphemia Jones
5.0
1914
Tangled Tangoists
5.0
1914
Love's Old Dream
Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
0.0
1914
Father's Hatband
Mrs. Henpecko
5.0
1913
The Feudists
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
0.0
1913
Those Troublesome Tresses
Mrs. Jones
5.0
1913
The Pickpocket
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
4.5
1913
Bunny's Dilemma
Aunt Eliza
0.0
1913
A Lady and Her Maid
5.3
1913
Vampire of the Desert
Hagar
0.0
1913
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Flora Scrawny
5.0
1913
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Mrs. Evelyn Jones
0.0
1913
Stenographer Troubles
A Typist
6.0
1913
The Classmate's Frolic
The Director of the School
5.0
1913
The Little Minister
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
0.0
1913
Three Black Bags
Mrs. Brown
0.0
1913
When the Press Speaks
Bealla Wilfax
0.0
1913
A Cure for Pokeritis
Mrs. Sharpe
4.8
1912
Freckles
Madame Legrand
4.0
1912
The Unusual Honeymoon
Mary McGregor, His Wife
4.0
1912
The Hand Bag
Miss Amanda De Rosville
4.0
1912
An Elephant on Their Hands
0.0
1912
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Mrs Wozenham
0.0
1912
She Cried
Factory Worker
4.0
1912
A Vitagraph Romance
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
4.8
1912
Bunny's Suicide
Mrs. Spink
6.5
1912
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Markham's African Sister
0.0
1912
Saving an Audience
A Suffragette
0.0
1912
Suing Susan
Miss Susan - a Spinster
3.0
1912
The Foster Child
0.0
1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
The Governess
4.0
1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Mrs. Bunce
6.0
1912
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
0.0
1912
The Old Silver Watch
4.0
1912
Irene's Infatuation
Mme. Frangiapani
0.0
1912
Stenographer Wanted
The Chosen Stenographer
4.0
1912
The First Violin
Helen's Step-Mother
0.0
1912
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
Mrs. Bunny
0.0
1911
Her Crowning Glory
The Governess
5.1
1911
The Strategy of Ann
Headmistress of the School
0.0
1911
Treasure Trove
Patience
0.0
1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Mrs. Nag
0.0
1911
Two Overcoats
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
0.0
1911
The Sleep Walker
0.0
1911
The Wooing of Winifred
0.0
1911
The New Stenographer
Lucille Montgomery
4.0
1911
In Northern Forests
4.0
1911
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Uplifter
5.0
1910
The Way of Man
The Mother
4.0
1909
What Drink Did
4.5
1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
The Lady Book Agent
2.5
1909
A Wreath in Time
Actress on Stage
4.0
1909
Those Awful Hats
Woman with largest hat
6.1
1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Guest
2.5
1909
The Helping Hand
Mrs. Harcourt
2.0
1908