Flora Finch
Acting
🎂 1867-06-16
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).
Cast credits(113)
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
1939
Maw (uncredited)
1937
1936
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
1921
Susan
1927
1909
French Countess (uncredited)
1922
The Mother
1909
Cassie
1929
Singer at Beulah's
1938
Faith Bartle, the Gossip
1934
Aunt Anna
1926
Movie Patron (uncredited)
1937
Duchesse de Montmorency
1924
Society Woman
1936
Helen's Step-Mother
1912
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
1911
Vosin
1930
Mary Willoughby
1927
The Governess
1912
Wedding Guest
1928
Guest
1909
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
1936
Old Maid in Hall
1937
Second Customer
1925
Emma
1929
Kate
1925
Mrs. Smith-Jones
1924
Mrs. Harcourt
1908
The Chosen Stenographer
1912
Gossip
1930
Señora Comba
1927
Radio station beauty expert
1929
Woman with largest hat
1909
Frau Schultz
1915
Mrs. Bunny
1914
Mrs. Pettygrew
1926
1914
Society Woman
1925
The Grandmother
1925
Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
1915
Mrs. Nag
1911
Actress on Stage
1909
Miss Penelope Budd
1919
Mrs. Snifty
1927
Mrs.Rackham
1928
Mrs. Jones
1913
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
1913
1922
1913
Lucille Montgomery
1911
Pansy Darwin
1925
Mrs Wozenham
1912
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
1913
1909
Uplifter
1910
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
1913
Aunt Eliza
1913
1912
A Suffragette
1912
Mary McGregor, His Wife
1912
The Plumber's Best Girl
1923
1911
Mrs. Marie Haslem
1916
Edith - The Widow
1913
Patience
1911
The Director of the School
1913
Stella Triplight
1914
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
1912
The Aunt
1916
Markham's African Sister
1912
Miss Susan - a Spinster
1912
1911
Hagar
1913
1912
Agatha Calthorpe
1921
The Lady Book Agent
1909
The Widow Hathaway
1914
Bealla Wilfax
1913
Mrs. Sharpe
1912
Landlady
1925
The Governess
1911
Flora Winslow - a Widow
1914
1912
Miss Prim
1914
Miss Rachel Whipple
1914
Mme. Frangiapani
1912
Euphemia Jones
1914
1912
Amanda Dawson
1925
A Typist
1913
Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
1914
Flora the Old Maid
1914
The Judge's Wife
1926
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
1914
Rags's Aunt
1918
Miss Amanda De Rosville
1912
Mrs. Bunce
1912
Madame Legrand
1912
Headmistress of the School
1911
Mrs. Sweeney
1914
Annette Kershaw
1914
Mrs. Bunny
1911
Mrs. Evelyn Jones
1913
Mrs. Brown
1913
Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
1915
1911
Flora Scrawny
1913
Factory Worker
1912
Bella Butts
1915
Mrs. Spink
1912
Mrs. Bunny
1914
Mrs. Henpecko
1913