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).
Acted in 78
1930s
- 1939
- 1938
Stablemates
Singer at Beulah's
- 1937
A Night at the Movies
Movie Patron (uncredited)
Mama Steps Out
Old Maid in Hall
- 1936
Postal Inspector
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble
Society Woman
Show Boat
Movie
- 1934
- 1930
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed
Vosin
1920s
- 1929
Say It with Songs
Radio station beauty expert
Come Across
Cassie
The Faker
Emma
- 1928
The Haunted House
Mrs.Rackham
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Wedding Guest
The Wife's Relations
Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
- 1927
Quality Street
Mary Willoughby
Rose of the Golden West
Señora Comba
Captain Salvation
Mrs. Snifty
Are Brunettes Safe?
School Teacher (uncredited)
- 1926
'Morning, Judge
The Judge's Wife
The Brown Derby
Aunt Anna
Fifth Avenue
Mrs. Pettygrew
- 1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
Second Customer
His Buddy's Wife
Mirandy
The Live Wire
Pansy Darwin
The Wrongdoers
Society Woman
The Adventurous Sex
The Grandmother
Men and Women
Kate
The Midnight Girl
Landlady
- 1924
Monsieur Beaucaire
Duchesse de Montmorency
Roulette
Mrs. Smith-Jones
- 1923
Luck
The Plumber's Best Girl
- 1922
Man Wanted
Movie
When Knighthood Was in Flower
French Countess (uncredited)
- 1921
Orphans of the Storm
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lessons in Love
Agatha Calthorpe
- 1920
Birthright
Movie
1910s
- 1919
Dawn
Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Oh Boy!
Miss Penelope Budd
- 1918
The Great Adventure
Rags's Aunt
- 1916
Prudence the Pirate
The Aunt
A Night Out
Mrs. Marie Haslem
- 1915
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
Bella Butts
- 1914
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Mrs. Sweeney
Bunny Backslides
Flora Winslow - a Widow
Hearts and Diamonds
Miss Rachel Whipple
Polishing Up
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
Father's Flirtation
Mrs. Bunny
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
Euphemia Jones
Tangled Tangoists
Movie
- 1913
Father's Hatband
Mrs. Henpecko
The Feudists
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Those Troublesome Tresses
Mrs. Jones
The Pickpocket
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Bunny's Dilemma
Aunt Eliza
A Lady and Her Maid
Movie
Vampire of the Desert
Hagar
The Little Minister
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
- 1912
A Cure for Pokeritis
Mrs. Sharpe
Freckles
Madame Legrand
An Unusual Honeymoon
Mary McGregor, His Wife
A Vitagraph Romance
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Diamond Cut Diamond
Mrs. Bunce
The First Violin
Helen's Step-Mother
- 1911
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
Mrs. Bunny
Her Crowning Glory
The Governess
The New Stenographer
Lucille Montgomery
In Northern Forests
Movie
- 1910
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I
Ophelia St. Clare
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Uplifter
1900s
- 1909
The Way of Man
The Mother
Her First Biscuits
Movie
What Drink Did
Movie
Those Awful Hats
Woman with largest hat
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Guest