Flora Finch
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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).
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The Women
1939 · Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Stablemates
1938 · Singer at Beulah's
A Night at the Movies
1937 · Movie Patron (uncredited)
Way Out West
1937 · Maw (uncredited)
Mama Steps Out
1937 · Old Maid in Hall
Postal Inspector
1936 · The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble
1936 · Society Woman
Show Boat
1936
The Scarlet Letter
1934 · Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
1930 · Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed
1930 · Vosin
Say It with Songs
1929 · Radio station beauty expert
Come Across
1929 · Cassie
The Faker
1929 · Emma
The Haunted House
1928 · Mrs.Rackham
Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928 · Wedding Guest
The Wife's Relations
1928 · Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Quality Street
1927 · Mary Willoughby
Rose of the Golden West
1927 · Señora Comba
The Cat and the Canary
1927 · Susan
Captain Salvation
1927 · Mrs. Snifty
Are Brunettes Safe?
1927 · School Teacher (uncredited)
Her Indiscretion
1927
'Morning, Judge
1926 · The Judge's Wife
The Brown Derby
1926 · Aunt Anna
Fifth Avenue
1926 · Mrs. Pettygrew
Lover's Island
1925 · Amanda Dawson
A Kiss for Cinderella
1925 · Second Customer
His Buddy's Wife
1925 · Mirandy
The Live Wire
1925 · Pansy Darwin
The Wrongdoers
1925 · Society Woman
The Adventurous Sex
1925 · The Grandmother
Men and Women
1925 · Kate
The Midnight Girl
1925 · Landlady
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924 · Duchesse de Montmorency
Roulette
1924 · Mrs. Smith-Jones
Luck
1923 · The Plumber's Best Girl
A Social Error
1922
Man Wanted
1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922 · French Countess (uncredited)
Orphans of the Storm
1921 · A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lessons in Love
1921 · Agatha Calthorpe
Birthright
1920
Dawn
1919 · Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Oh Boy!
1919 · Miss Penelope Budd
The Great Adventure
1918 · Rags's Aunt
Prudence the Pirate
1916 · The Aunt
A Night Out
1916 · Mrs. Marie Haslem
Heavy Villains
1915 · Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
The Lady of Shalott
1915 · Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
War
1915 · Frau Schultz
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915 · Bella Butts
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
1914 · Mrs. Sweeney
Fixing Their Dads
1914 · The Widow Hathaway
Bunny Backslides
1914 · Flora Winslow - a Widow
Hearts and Diamonds
1914 · Miss Rachel Whipple
Polishing Up
1914 · Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
The Locked House
1914 · Mrs. Bunny
The Vases of Hymen
1914 · Annette Kershaw
A Train of Incidents
1914 · Miss Prim
The Old Maid's Baby
1914 · Flora the Old Maid
Father's Flirtation
1914 · Mrs. Bunny
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
1914 · Euphemia Jones
Tangled Tangoists
1914
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914 · Stella Triplight
Love's Old Dream
1914 · Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
1913 · Flora - The Wife
Father's Hatband
1913 · Mrs. Henpecko
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
1913 · Edith - The Widow
The Feudists
1913 · Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Those Troublesome Tresses
1913 · Mrs. Jones
The Pickpocket
1913 · Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Bunny's Dilemma
1913 · Aunt Eliza
A Lady and Her Maid
1913
Vampire of the Desert
1913 · Hagar
Disciplining Daisy
1913
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
1913 · Flora Scrawny
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
1913 · Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Stenographer Troubles
1913 · A Typist
The Classmate's Frolic
1913 · The Director of the School
When Mary Grew Up
1913
The Little Minister
1913 · Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Three Black Bags
1913 · Mrs. Brown
When the Press Speaks
1913 · Bealla Wilfax
A Cure for Pokeritis
1912 · Mrs. Sharpe
Freckles
1912 · Madame Legrand
An Unusual Honeymoon
1912 · Mary McGregor, His Wife
The Hand Bag
1912 · Miss Amanda De Rosville
An Elephant on Their Hands
1912
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912 · Mrs Wozenham
She Cried
1912 · Factory Worker
A Vitagraph Romance
1912 · Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Bunny's Suicide
1912 · Mrs. Spink
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
1912 · Markham's African Sister
Saving an Audience
1912 · A Suffragette
Suing Susan
1912 · Miss Susan - a Spinster
The Foster Child
1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
1912 · The Governess
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912 · Mrs. Bunce
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
1912
The Old Silver Watch
1912
Irene's Infatuation
1912 · Mme. Frangiapani
Stenographer Wanted
1912 · The Chosen Stenographer
The First Violin
1912 · Helen's Step-Mother
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911 · Mrs. Bunny
Her Crowning Glory
1911 · The Governess
The Strategy of Ann
1911 · Headmistress of the School
Treasure Trove
1911 · Patience
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911 · Mrs. Nag
Two Overcoats
1911 · Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
The Sleep Walker
1911
The Wooing of Winifred
1911
The New Stenographer
1911 · Lucille Montgomery
In Northern Forests
1911
The Troublesome Baby
1910 · Mrs. Samuels
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I
1910 · Ophelia St. Clare
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910 · Uplifter
The Way of Man
1909 · The Mother
Her First Biscuits
1909
What Drink Did
1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909 · The Lady Book Agent
A Wreath in Time
1909 · Actress on Stage
Those Awful Hats
1909 · Woman with largest hat
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909 · Guest
Mrs. Jones Entertains
1909 · Leader of the Temperance League
The Helping Hand
1908 · Mrs. Harcourt
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