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

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
The Faker as Emma
Come Across as Cassie

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

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

1924

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

1923

Luck as The Plumber's Best Girl

1922

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

1921

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

1920

Birthright

1919

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

1918

The Great Adventure as Rags's Aunt

1916

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

1915

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

1914

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

1913

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

1912

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

1908

The Helping Hand as Mrs. Harcourt