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