Flora Finch
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1867-06-16
Day of Death
1940-01-04 (72 years old)
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).
Known For
Acting
(1939)
The Women
as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
(1938)
Stablemates
as Singer at Beulah's
(1937)
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
(1936)
(1936)
Women Are Trouble
as Society Woman
(1936)
Postal Inspector
as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
(1934)
The Scarlet Letter
as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
(1930)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Gossip
(1930)
The Matrimonial Bed
as Vosin
(1929)
Come Across
as Cassie
(1929)
Say It with Songs
as Radio station beauty expert
(1929)
The Faker
as Emma
(1928)
The Haunted House
as Mrs.Rackham
(1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Wedding Guest
(1927)
The Cat and the Canary
as Susan
(1927)
Rose of the Golden West
as Señora Comba
(1927)
Captain Salvation
as Mrs. Snifty
(1927)
Quality Street
as Mary Willoughby
(1926)
'Morning, Judge
as The Judge's Wife
(1926)
Fifth Avenue
as Mrs. Pettygrew
(1926)
The Brown Derby
as Aunt Anna
(1925)
Lover's Island
as Amanda Dawson
(1925)
A Kiss for Cinderella
as Second Customer
(1925)
The Midnight Girl
as Landlady
(1925)
Men and Women
as Kate
(1925)
The Wrongdoers
as Society Woman
(1925)
The Adventurous Sex
as The Grandmother
(1925)
The Live Wire
as Pansy Darwin
(1924)
Roulette
as Mrs. Smith-Jones
(1924)
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Duchesse de Montmorency
(1923)
Luck
as The Plumber's Best Girl
(1922)
When Knighthood Was in Flower
as French Countess (uncredited)
(1922)
(1921)
Orphans of the Storm
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
(1921)
Lessons in Love
as Agatha Calthorpe
(1919)
Oh Boy!
as Miss Penelope Budd
(1918)
The Great Adventure
as Rags's Aunt
(1916)
A Night Out
as Mrs. Marie Haslem
(1916)
Prudence the Pirate
as The Aunt
(1915)
Heavy Villains
as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
(1915)
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
as Bella Butts
(1915)
War
as Frau Schultz
(1915)
The Lady of Shalott
as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
(1914)
A Train of Incidents
as Miss Prim
(1914)
(1914)
Love's Old Dream
as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
(1914)
The Locked House
as Mrs. Bunny
(1914)
Bunny Backslides
as Flora Winslow - a Widow
(1914)
Fixing Their Dads
as The Widow Hathaway
(1914)
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
as Euphemia Jones
(1914)
The Vases of Hymen
as Annette Kershaw
(1914)
Polishing Up
as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
(1914)
Father's Flirtation
as Mrs. Bunny
(1914)
Hearts and Diamonds
as Miss Rachel Whipple
(1914)
The Old Maid's Baby
as Flora the Old Maid
(1914)
A Change in Baggage Checks
as Stella Triplight
(1914)
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
as Mrs. Sweeney
(1913)
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
as Edith - The Widow
(1913)
The Pickpocket
as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
(1913)
The Little Minister
as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
(1913)
Those Troublesome Tresses
as Mrs. Jones
(1913)
The Feudists
as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
(1913)
Three Black Bags
as Mrs. Brown
(1913)
The Classmate's Frolic
as The Director of the School
(1913)
Father's Hatband
as Mrs. Henpecko
(1913)
(1913)
Bunny's Dilemma
as Aunt Eliza
(1913)
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
(1913)
When the Press Speaks
as Bealla Wilfax
(1913)
Stenographer Troubles
as A Typist
(1913)
Vampire of the Desert
as Hagar
(1913)
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
as Flora Scrawny
(1912)
(1912)
Bunny's Suicide
as Mrs. Spink
(1912)
(1912)
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
as Markham's African Sister
(1912)
A Cure for Pokeritis
as Mrs. Sharpe
(1912)
Saving an Audience
as A Suffragette
(1912)
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
as The Governess
(1912)
Stenographer Wanted
as The Chosen Stenographer
(1912)
She Cried
as Factory Worker
(1912)
Freckles
as Madame Legrand
(1912)
The First Violin
as Helen's Step-Mother
(1912)
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
as Mrs Wozenham
(1912)
A Vitagraph Romance
as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
(1912)
Irene's Infatuation
as Mme. Frangiapani
(1912)
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Mrs. Bunce
(1912)
(1912)
Suing Susan
as Miss Susan - a Spinster
(1912)
(1912)
The Unusual Honeymoon
as Mary McGregor, His Wife
(1912)
The Hand Bag
as Miss Amanda De Rosville
(1911)
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
as Mrs. Bunny
(1911)
Two Overcoats
as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
(1911)
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
as Mrs. Nag
(1911)
The New Stenographer
as Lucille Montgomery
(1911)
The Strategy of Ann
as Headmistress of the School
(1911)
(1911)
Her Crowning Glory
as The Governess
(1911)
Treasure Trove
as Patience
(1911)
(1911)
(1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
as Uplifter
(1909)
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
as Guest
(1909)
The Way of Man
as The Mother
(1909)
(1909)
(1909)
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
as The Lady Book Agent
(1909)
Those Awful Hats
as Woman with largest hat
(1909)
A Wreath in Time
as Actress on Stage
(1908)
The Helping Hand
as Mrs. Harcourt