Flora Finch
Biography
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).
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Movies (50)
The Women
as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
1939
Stablemates
as Singer at Beulah's
1938
A Night at the Movies
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
1937
Way Out West
as Maw (uncredited)
1937
Mama Steps Out
as Old Maid in Hall
1937
Postal Inspector
as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
1936
Women Are Trouble
as Society Woman
1936
Show Boat
1936
The Scarlet Letter
as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
1934
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Gossip
1930
The Matrimonial Bed
as Vosin
1930
Say It with Songs
as Radio station beauty expert
1929
Come Across
as Cassie
1929
The Faker
as Emma
1929
The Haunted House
as Mrs.Rackham
1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Wedding Guest
1928
The Wife's Relations
as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
1928
Quality Street
as Mary Willoughby
1927
Rose of the Golden West
as Señora Comba
1927
The Cat and the Canary
as Susan
1927
Captain Salvation
as Mrs. Snifty
1927
'Morning, Judge
as The Judge's Wife
1926
The Brown Derby
as Aunt Anna
1926
Fifth Avenue
as Mrs. Pettygrew
1926
Lover's Island
as Amanda Dawson
1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
as Second Customer
1925
His Buddy's Wife
as Mirandy
1925
The Live Wire
as Pansy Darwin
1925
The Wrongdoers
as Society Woman
1925
The Adventurous Sex
as The Grandmother
1925
Men and Women
as Kate
1925
The Midnight Girl
as Landlady
1925
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Duchesse de Montmorency
1924
Roulette
as Mrs. Smith-Jones
1924
Luck
as The Plumber's Best Girl
1923
Man Wanted
1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
as French Countess (uncredited)
1922
Orphans of the Storm
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
1921
Lessons in Love
as Agatha Calthorpe
1921
Birthright
1920
Dawn
as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
1919
Oh Boy!
as Miss Penelope Budd
1919
The Great Adventure
as Rags's Aunt
1918
Prudence the Pirate
as The Aunt
1916
A Night Out
as Mrs. Marie Haslem
1916
Heavy Villains
as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
1915
The Lady of Shalott
as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
1915
War
as Frau Schultz
1915
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
as Bella Butts
1915
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
as Mrs. Sweeney
1914