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