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).
Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Singer at Beulah's
Old Maid in Hall
Maw (uncredited)
Movie Patron (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Society Woman
The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Vosin
Gossip
Emma
Cassie
Radio station beauty expert
Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Wedding Guest
Mrs.Rackham
Her Indiscretion
(Unknown)
School Teacher (uncredited)
Mrs. Snifty
Susan
Señora Comba
Mary Willoughby
Mrs. Pettygrew
Aunt Anna
The Judge's Wife
Landlady
Kate
The Grandmother
Society Woman
Pansy Darwin
Mirandy
Second Customer
Lover's Island
Amanda Dawson
Mrs. Smith-Jones
Duchesse de Montmorency
The Plumber's Best Girl
French Countess (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Agatha Calthorpe
A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
(Unknown)
Miss Penelope Budd
Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Rags's Aunt
Mrs. Marie Haslem
The Aunt
Bella Butts
War
Frau Schultz
The Lady of Shalott
Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
Heavy Villains
Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
Love's Old Dream
Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
A Change in Baggage Checks
Stella Triplight
(Unknown)
Euphemia Jones
Mrs. Bunny
The Old Maid's Baby
Flora the Old Maid
A Train of Incidents
Miss Prim
The Vases of Hymen
Annette Kershaw
The Locked House
Mrs. Bunny
Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
Miss Rachel Whipple
Flora Winslow - a Widow
Fixing Their Dads
The Widow Hathaway
Mrs. Sweeney
When the Press Speaks
Bealla Wilfax
Three Black Bags
Mrs. Brown
Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
When Mary Grew Up
(Unknown)
The Classmate's Frolic
The Director of the School
Stenographer Troubles
A Typist
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Flora Scrawny
Disciplining Daisy
(Unknown)
Hagar
(Unknown)
Aunt Eliza
Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Mrs. Jones
Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
Edith - The Widow
Mrs. Henpecko
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
Flora - The Wife
Helen's Step-Mother
Stenographer Wanted
The Chosen Stenographer
Irene's Infatuation
Mme. Frangiapani
The Old Silver Watch
(Unknown)
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
(Unknown)
Mrs. Bunce
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
The Governess
The Foster Child
(Unknown)
Suing Susan
Miss Susan - a Spinster
Saving an Audience
A Suffragette
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Markham's African Sister
Bunny's Suicide
Mrs. Spink
Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
She Cried
Factory Worker
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Mrs Wozenham
An Elephant on Their Hands
(Unknown)
The Hand Bag
Miss Amanda De Rosville
Mary McGregor, His Wife
Madame Legrand
Mrs. Sharpe
(Unknown)
Lucille Montgomery
The Wooing of Winifred
(Unknown)
The Sleep Walker
(Unknown)
Two Overcoats
Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Mrs. Nag
Treasure Trove
Patience
The Strategy of Ann
Headmistress of the School
The Governess
Mrs. Bunny
Uplifter
The Troublesome Baby
Mrs. Samuels
Mrs. Jones Entertains
Leader of the Temperance League
Guest
Woman with largest hat
A Wreath in Time
Actress on Stage
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
The Lady Book Agent
(Unknown)
(Unknown)
The Mother
The Helping Hand
Mrs. Harcourt