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Flora Finch
Actor

Flora Finch

16 Jun 1867Born
4 Jan 1940Died
72Age at death
126Credits

Biography

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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.

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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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Filmography

The 80 most recent of 126 credits.

  1. 1939The WomenFilm: Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
  2. 1938StablematesFilm: Singer at Beulah's
  3. 1937A Night at the MoviesFilm: Movie Patron (uncredited)
  4. 1937Way Out WestFilm: Maw (uncredited)
  5. 1937Mama Steps OutFilm: Old Maid in Hall
  6. 1936Postal InspectorFilm: The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
  7. 1936Women Are TroubleFilm: Society Woman
  8. 1936Show BoatFilm
  9. 1934The Scarlet LetterFilm: Faith Bartle, the Gossip
  10. 1930Sweet Kitty BellairsFilm: Gossip
  11. 1930The Matrimonial BedFilm: Vosin
  12. 1929Say It with SongsFilm: Radio station beauty expert
  13. 1929Come AcrossFilm: Cassie
  14. 1929The FakerFilm: Emma
  15. 1928The Haunted HouseFilm: Mrs.Rackham
  16. 1928Five and Ten Cent AnnieFilm: Wedding Guest
  17. 1928The Wife's RelationsFilm: Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
  18. 1927Quality StreetFilm: Mary Willoughby
  19. 1927Rose of the Golden WestFilm: Señora Comba
  20. 1927The Cat and the CanaryFilm: Susan
  21. 1927Captain SalvationFilm: Mrs. Snifty
  22. 1927Are Brunettes Safe?Film: School Teacher (uncredited)
  23. 1927Her IndiscretionFilm
  24. 1926'Morning, JudgeFilm: The Judge's Wife
  25. 1926The Brown DerbyFilm: Aunt Anna
  26. 1926Fifth AvenueFilm: Mrs. Pettygrew
  27. 1925Lover's IslandFilm: Amanda Dawson
  28. 1925A Kiss for CinderellaFilm: Second Customer
  29. 1925His Buddy's WifeFilm: Mirandy
  30. 1925The Live WireFilm: Pansy Darwin
  31. 1925The WrongdoersFilm: Society Woman
  32. 1925The Adventurous SexFilm: The Grandmother
  33. 1925Men and WomenFilm: Kate
  34. 1925The Midnight GirlFilm: Landlady
  35. 1924Monsieur BeaucaireFilm: Duchesse de Montmorency
  36. 1924RouletteFilm: Mrs. Smith-Jones
  37. 1923LuckFilm: The Plumber's Best Girl
  38. 1922A Social ErrorFilm
  39. 1922Man WantedFilm
  40. 1922When Knighthood Was in FlowerFilm: French Countess (uncredited)
  41. 1921Orphans of the StormFilm: A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
  42. 1921Lessons in LoveFilm: Agatha Calthorpe
  43. 1920BirthrightFilm
  44. 1919DawnFilm: Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
  45. 1919Oh Boy!Film: Miss Penelope Budd
  46. 1918The Great AdventureFilm: Rags's Aunt
  47. 1916Prudence the PirateFilm: The Aunt
  48. 1916A Night OutFilm: Mrs. Marie Haslem
  49. 1915Heavy VillainsFilm: Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
  50. 1915The Lady of ShalottFilm: Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
  51. 1915WarFilm: Frau Schultz
  52. 1915The Smoking Out of Bella ButtsFilm: Bella Butts
  53. 1914Sweeney's Christmas BirdFilm: Mrs. Sweeney
  54. 1914Fixing Their DadsFilm: The Widow Hathaway
  55. 1914Bunny BackslidesFilm: Flora Winslow - a Widow
  56. 1914Hearts and DiamondsFilm: Miss Rachel Whipple
  57. 1914Polishing UpFilm: Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
  58. 1914The Locked HouseFilm: Mrs. Bunny
  59. 1914The Vases of HymenFilm: Annette Kershaw
  60. 1914A Train of IncidentsFilm: Miss Prim
  61. 1914The Old Maid's BabyFilm: Flora the Old Maid
  62. 1914Father's FlirtationFilm: Mrs. Bunny
  63. 1914Mr. Bunny in DisguiseFilm: Euphemia Jones
  64. 1914Tangled TangoistsFilm
  65. 1914A Change in Baggage ChecksFilm: Stella Triplight
  66. 1914Love's Old DreamFilm: Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
  67. 1913The Golf Game and the BonnetFilm: Flora - The Wife
  68. 1913Father's HatbandFilm: Mrs. Henpecko
  69. 1913The Autocrat of Flapjack JunctionFilm: Edith - The Widow
  70. 1913The FeudistsFilm: Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
  71. 1913Those Troublesome TressesFilm: Mrs. Jones
  72. 1913The PickpocketFilm: Patrick's Suffragette Wife
  73. 1913Bunny's DilemmaFilm: Aunt Eliza
  74. 1913A Lady and Her MaidFilm
  75. 1913Vampire of the DesertFilm: Hagar
  76. 1913Disciplining DaisyFilm
  77. 1913Cutey and the Chorus GirlsFilm: Flora Scrawny
  78. 1913The Locket; or, When She Was TwentyFilm: Mrs. Evelyn Jones
  79. 1913Stenographer TroublesFilm: A Typist
  80. 1913The Classmate's FrolicFilm: The Director of the School

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