Flora Finch

Acting

Born June 16, 1867, 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).

Filmography

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