Flora Finch

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

Born: null, 1867-06-16

Died: 1940-01-04

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1908	The Helping Hand	Mrs. Harcourt	20
2	1909	Mr. Jones Has a Card Party	Guest	30
3	1909	Those Awful Hats	Woman with largest hat	60
4	1909	A Wreath in Time	Actress on Stage	40
5	1909	Jones and the Lady Book Agent	The Lady Book Agent	25
6	1909	What Drink Did		45
7	1909	Her First Biscuits		30
8	1909	The Way of Man	The Mother	40
9	1910	Muggsy's First Sweetheart	Uplifter	50
10	1911	In Northern Forests		40
11	1911	The New Stenographer	Lucille Montgomery	40
12	1911	The Wooing of Winifred		0
13	1911	The Sleep Walker		0
14	1911	Two Overcoats	Mrs. Maggie Gallagher	0
15	1911	The Subduing of Mrs. Nag	Mrs. Nag	0
16	1911	Treasure Trove	Patience	0
17	1911	The Strategy of Ann	Headmistress of the School	0
18	1911	Her Crowning Glory	The Governess	51
19	1911	In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath	Mrs. Bunny	0
20	1912	The First Violin	Helen's Step-Mother	0
21	1912	Stenographer Wanted	The Chosen Stenographer	40
22	1912	Irene's Infatuation	Mme. Frangiapani	0
23	1912	The Old Silver Watch		40
24	1912	Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes		0
25	1912	Diamond Cut Diamond	Mrs. Bunce	60
26	1912	The Troublesome Step-Daughters	The Governess	40
27	1912	The Foster Child		0
28	1912	Suing Susan	Miss Susan - a Spinster	30
29	1912	Saving an Audience	A Suffragette	0
30	1912	Captain Barnacle's Legacy	Markham's African Sister	0
31	1912	Bunny's Suicide	Mrs. Spink	65
32	1912	A Vitagraph Romance	Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary	48
33	1912	She Cried	Factory Worker	40
34	1912	An Elephant on Their Hands		0
35	1912	Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers	Mrs Wozenham	0
36	1912	The Hand Bag	Miss Amanda De Rosville	40
37	1912	The Unusual Honeymoon	Mary McGregor, His Wife	40
38	1912	Freckles	Madame Legrand	40
39	1912	A Cure for Pokeritis	Mrs. Sharpe	49
40	1913	When the Press Speaks	Bealla Wilfax	0
41	1913	The Little Minister	Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant	0
42	1913	Three Black Bags	Mrs. Brown	0
43	1913	The Classmate's Frolic	The Director of the School	50
44	1913	Stenographer Troubles	A Typist	60
45	1913	The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty	Mrs. Evelyn Jones	0
46	1913	Cutey and the Chorus Girls	Flora Scrawny	50
47	1913	Vampire of the Desert	Hagar	0
48	1913	A Lady and Her Maid		53
49	1913	Bunny's Dilemma	Aunt Eliza	0
50	1913	The Pickpocket	Patrick's Suffragette Wife	45
51	1913	Those Troublesome Tresses	Mrs. Jones	50
52	1913	The Feudists	Second Wife, Mrs. Craig	0
53	1913	The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction	Edith - The Widow	0
54	1913	Father's Hatband	Mrs. Henpecko	50
55	1914	Love's Old Dream	Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart	0
56	1914	A Change in Baggage Checks	Stella Triplight	0
57	1914	Tangled Tangoists		50
58	1914	Mr. Bunny in Disguise	Euphemia Jones	50
59	1914	Father's Flirtation	Mrs. Bunny	0
60	1914	The Old Maid's Baby	Flora the Old Maid	0
61	1914	A Train of Incidents	Miss Prim	0
62	1914	The Vases of Hymen	Annette Kershaw	0
63	1914	The Locked House	Mrs. Bunny	0
64	1914	Polishing Up	Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor	0
65	1914	Hearts and Diamonds	Miss Rachel Whipple	50
66	1914	Bunny Backslides	Flora Winslow - a Widow	0
67	1914	Fixing Their Dads	The Widow Hathaway	0
68	1914	Sweeney's Christmas Bird	Mrs. Sweeney	0
69	1915	The Smoking Out of Bella Butts	Bella Butts	0
70	1915	War	Frau Schultz	0
71	1915	The Lady of Shalott	Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott	0
72	1915	Heavy Villains	Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth	0
73	1916	A Night Out	Mrs. Marie Haslem	0
74	1916	Prudence the Pirate	The Aunt	0
75	1918	The Great Adventure	Rags's Aunt	0
76	1919	Oh Boy!	Miss Penelope Budd	0
77	1921	Lessons in Love	Agatha Calthorpe	0
78	1921	Orphans of the Storm	A Starving Peasant (uncredited)	68
79	1922	When Knighthood Was in Flower	French Countess (uncredited)	57
80	1922	Man Wanted		0
81	1923	Luck	The Plumber's Best Girl	70
82	1924	Roulette	Mrs. Smith-Jones	0
83	1924	Monsieur Beaucaire	Duchesse de Montmorency	59
84	1925	The Midnight Girl	Landlady	52
85	1925	Men and Women	Kate	0
86	1925	The Adventurous Sex	The Grandmother	0
87	1925	The Wrongdoers	Society Woman	0
88	1925	The Live Wire	Pansy Darwin	0
89	1925	A Kiss for Cinderella	Second Customer	50
90	1925	Lover's Island	Amanda Dawson	0
91	1926	Fifth Avenue	Mrs. Pettygrew	0
92	1926	The Brown Derby	Aunt Anna	60
93	1926	'Morning, Judge	The Judge's Wife	0
94	1927	Captain Salvation	Mrs. Snifty	68
95	1927	The Cat and the Canary	Susan	68
96	1927	Rose of the Golden West	Señora Comba	0
97	1927	Quality Street	Mary Willoughby	69
98	1928	Five and Ten Cent Annie	Wedding Guest	0
99	1928	The Haunted House	Mrs.Rackham	0
100	1929	The Faker	Emma	0
101	1929	Come Across	Cassie	0
102	1929	Say It with Songs	Radio station beauty expert	53
103	1930	The Matrimonial Bed	Vosin	57
104	1930	Sweet Kitty Bellairs	Gossip	50
105	1934	The Scarlet Letter	Faith Bartle, the Gossip	49
106	1936	Show Boat		68
107	1936	Women Are Trouble	Society Woman	60
108	1936	Postal Inspector	The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)	62
109	1937	Mama Steps Out	Old Maid in Hall	60
110	1937	Way Out West	Maw (uncredited)	71
111	1937	A Night at the Movies	Movie Patron (uncredited)	55
112	1938	Stablemates	Singer at Beulah's	45
113	1939	The Women	Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)	71

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