Flora Finch

Born: 1867-06-16 in London

Died: 1940-01-04

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

1939

The Women as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)

1938

Stablemates as Singer at Beulah's

1937

Way Out West as Maw (uncredited)
A Night at the Movies as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Mama Steps Out as Old Maid in Hall

1936

Show Boat
Postal Inspector as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble as Society Woman

1934

The Scarlet Letter as Faith Bartle, the Gossip

1930

The Matrimonial Bed as Vosin
Sweet Kitty Bellairs as Gossip

1929

Say It with Songs as Radio station beauty expert
Come Across as Cassie
The Faker as Emma

1928

The Wife's Relations as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
The Haunted House as Mrs.Rackham
Five and Ten Cent Annie as Wedding Guest

1927

Her Indiscretion
The Cat and the Canary as Susan
Captain Salvation as Mrs. Snifty
Are Brunettes Safe? as School Teacher (uncredited)
Quality Street as Mary Willoughby
Rose of the Golden West as Señora Comba

1926

Fifth Avenue as Mrs. Pettygrew
The Brown Derby as Aunt Anna
'Morning, Judge as The Judge's Wife

1925

His Buddy's Wife as Mirandy
A Kiss for Cinderella as Second Customer
The Wrongdoers as Society Woman
The Midnight Girl as Landlady
Men and Women as Kate
Lover's Island as Amanda Dawson
The Live Wire as Pansy Darwin
The Adventurous Sex as The Grandmother

1924

Monsieur Beaucaire as Duchesse de Montmorency
Roulette as Mrs. Smith-Jones

1923

Luck as The Plumber's Best Girl

1922

Man Wanted
When Knighthood Was in Flower as French Countess (uncredited)

1921

Orphans of the Storm as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lessons in Love as Agatha Calthorpe

1920

Birthright

1919

Dawn as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Oh Boy! as Miss Penelope Budd

1918

The Great Adventure as Rags's Aunt

1916

A Night Out as Mrs. Marie Haslem
Prudence the Pirate as The Aunt

1915

Heavy Villains as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
War as Frau Schultz
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts as Bella Butts
The Lady of Shalott as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott

1914

Father's Flirtation as Mrs. Bunny
Mr. Bunny in Disguise as Euphemia Jones
Love's Old Dream as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
A Change in Baggage Checks as Stella Triplight
Hearts and Diamonds as Miss Rachel Whipple
The Vases of Hymen as Annette Kershaw
Tangled Tangoists
Polishing Up as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
The Locked House as Mrs. Bunny
A Train of Incidents as Miss Prim
The Old Maid's Baby as Flora the Old Maid
Fixing Their Dads as The Widow Hathaway
Sweeney's Christmas Bird as Mrs. Sweeney
Bunny Backslides as Flora Winslow - a Widow

1913

Disciplining Daisy
The Golf Game and the Bonnet as Flora - The Wife
A Lady and Her Maid
Father's Hatband as Mrs. Henpecko
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
The Classmate's Frolic as The Director of the School
The Pickpocket as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Vampire of the Desert as Hagar
The Little Minister as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Bunny's Dilemma as Aunt Eliza
When Mary Grew Up
Stenographer Troubles as A Typist
Cutey and the Chorus Girls as Flora Scrawny
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction as Edith - The Widow
Those Troublesome Tresses as Mrs. Jones
The Feudists as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Three Black Bags as Mrs. Brown
When the Press Speaks as Bealla Wilfax

1912

The Old Silver Watch
A Cure for Pokeritis as Mrs. Sharpe
Diamond Cut Diamond as Mrs. Bunce
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
The Unusual Honeymoon as Mary McGregor, His Wife
Captain Barnacle's Legacy as Markham's African Sister
She Cried as Factory Worker
The Foster Child
The Troublesome Step-Daughters as The Governess
The First Violin as Helen's Step-Mother
Suing Susan as Miss Susan - a Spinster
Freckles as Madame Legrand
A Vitagraph Romance as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Saving an Audience as A Suffragette
Stenographer Wanted as The Chosen Stenographer
An Elephant on Their Hands
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers as Mrs Wozenham
Irene's Infatuation as Mme. Frangiapani
Bunny's Suicide as Mrs. Spink
The Hand Bag as Miss Amanda De Rosville

1908

The Helping Hand as Mrs. Harcourt