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

Sweet Kitty Bellairs as Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed as Vosin

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

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

1924

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

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

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

1915

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

1914

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

1913

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

1912

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

1908

The Helping Hand as Mrs. Harcourt