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