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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).
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Filmography (Movies)
The Women
Character:Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Release Date:01/09/1939
Stablemates
Character:Singer at Beulah's
Release Date:07/10/1938
A Night at the Movies
Character:Movie Patron (uncredited)
Release Date:06/11/1937
Way Out West
Character:Maw (uncredited)
Release Date:16/04/1937
Mama Steps Out
Character:Old Maid in Hall
Release Date:05/02/1937
Postal Inspector
Character:The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Release Date:16/08/1936
Women Are Trouble
Character:Society Woman
Release Date:31/07/1936
Show Boat
Character:
Release Date:17/05/1936
The Scarlet Letter
Character:Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Release Date:18/09/1934
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Character:Gossip
Release Date:05/09/1930
The Matrimonial Bed
Character:Vosin
Release Date:01/08/1930
Say It with Songs
Character:Radio station beauty expert
Release Date:05/08/1929
Come Across
Character:Cassie
Release Date:30/06/1929
The Faker
Character:Emma
Release Date:02/01/1929
The Haunted House
Character:Mrs.Rackham
Release Date:04/11/1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Character:Wedding Guest
Release Date:26/05/1928
The Wife's Relations
Character:Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Release Date:13/01/1928
Quality Street
Character:Mary Willoughby
Release Date:01/11/1927
Rose of the Golden West
Character:Señora Comba
Release Date:25/09/1927
The Cat and the Canary
Character:Susan
Release Date:20/08/1927
Captain Salvation
Character:Mrs. Snifty
Release Date:14/05/1927
'Morning, Judge
Character:The Judge's Wife
Release Date:01/09/1926
The Brown Derby
Character:Aunt Anna
Release Date:04/07/1926
Fifth Avenue
Character:Mrs. Pettygrew
Release Date:24/01/1926
Lover's Island
Character:Amanda Dawson
Release Date:30/12/1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
Character:Second Customer
Release Date:22/12/1925
His Buddy's Wife
Character:Mirandy
Release Date:04/10/1925
The Live Wire
Character:Pansy Darwin
Release Date:20/09/1925
The Wrongdoers
Character:Society Woman
Release Date:03/09/1925
The Adventurous Sex
Character:The Grandmother
Release Date:12/06/1925
Men and Women
Character:Kate
Release Date:23/03/1925
The Midnight Girl
Character:Landlady
Release Date:14/02/1925
Monsieur Beaucaire
Character:Duchesse de Montmorency
Release Date:11/08/1924
Roulette
Character:Mrs. Smith-Jones
Release Date:19/01/1924
Luck
Character:The Plumber's Best Girl
Release Date:01/03/1923
Man Wanted
Character:
Release Date:13/10/1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Character:French Countess (uncredited)
Release Date:15/09/1922
Orphans of the Storm
Character:A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Release Date:28/12/1921
Lessons in Love
Character:Agatha Calthorpe
Release Date:01/05/1921
Birthright
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1920
Dawn
Character:Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Release Date:30/11/1919
Oh Boy!
Character:Miss Penelope Budd
Release Date:22/06/1919
The Great Adventure
Character:Rags's Aunt
Release Date:10/03/1918
Prudence the Pirate
Character:The Aunt
Release Date:21/10/1916
A Night Out
Character:Mrs. Marie Haslem
Release Date:31/01/1916
Heavy Villains
Character:Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
Release Date:14/08/1915
The Lady of Shalott
Character:Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
Release Date:26/03/1915
War
Character:Frau Schultz
Release Date:23/01/1915
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
Character:Bella Butts
Release Date:08/01/1915
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Character:Mrs. Sweeney
Release Date:25/12/1914
Fixing Their Dads
Character:The Widow Hathaway
Release Date:18/11/1914
Bunny Backslides
Character:Flora Winslow - a Widow
Release Date:30/10/1914
Hearts and Diamonds
Character:Miss Rachel Whipple
Release Date:25/09/1914
Polishing Up
Character:Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
Release Date:14/08/1914
The Locked House
Character:Mrs. Bunny
Release Date:07/08/1914
The Vases of Hymen
Character:Annette Kershaw
Release Date:10/07/1914
A Train of Incidents
Character:Miss Prim
Release Date:03/07/1914
The Old Maid's Baby
Character:Flora the Old Maid
Release Date:26/06/1914
Father's Flirtation
Character:Mrs. Bunny
Release Date:20/06/1914
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
Character:Euphemia Jones
Release Date:07/05/1914
Tangled Tangoists
Character:
Release Date:23/04/1914
A Change in Baggage Checks
Character:Stella Triplight
Release Date:27/02/1914
Love's Old Dream
Character:Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
Release Date:21/01/1914
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
Character:Flora - The Wife
Release Date:26/12/1913
Father's Hatband
Character:Mrs. Henpecko
Release Date:29/10/1913
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
Character:Edith - The Widow
Release Date:02/10/1913
The Feudists
Character:Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Release Date:23/08/1913
Those Troublesome Tresses
Character:Mrs. Jones
Release Date:18/08/1913
The Pickpocket
Character:Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Release Date:21/07/1913
Bunny's Dilemma
Character:Aunt Eliza
Release Date:19/06/1913
A Lady and Her Maid
Character:
Release Date:21/05/1913
Vampire of the Desert
Character:Hagar
Release Date:16/05/1913
Disciplining Daisy
Character:
Release Date:07/05/1913
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Character:Flora Scrawny
Release Date:09/04/1913
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Character:Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Release Date:22/02/1913
Stenographer Troubles
Character:A Typist
Release Date:06/02/1913
The Classmate's Frolic
Character:The Director of the School
Release Date:04/02/1913
The Little Minister
Character:Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Release Date:13/01/1913
Three Black Bags
Character:Mrs. Brown
Release Date:13/01/1913
When the Press Speaks
Character:Bealla Wilfax
Release Date:01/01/1913
A Cure for Pokeritis
Character:Mrs. Sharpe
Release Date:31/12/1912
Freckles
Character:Madame Legrand
Release Date:26/12/1912
The Unusual Honeymoon
Character:Mary McGregor, His Wife
Release Date:18/12/1912
The Hand Bag
Character:Miss Amanda De Rosville
Release Date:09/11/1912
An Elephant on Their Hands
Character:
Release Date:15/10/1912
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Character:Mrs Wozenham
Release Date:15/10/1912
She Cried
Character:Factory Worker
Release Date:02/10/1912
A Vitagraph Romance
Character:Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Release Date:17/09/1912
Bunny's Suicide
Character:Mrs. Spink
Release Date:05/09/1912
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Character:Markham's African Sister
Release Date:04/09/1912
Saving an Audience
Character:A Suffragette
Release Date:23/08/1912
Suing Susan
Character:Miss Susan - a Spinster
Release Date:09/08/1912
The Foster Child
Character:
Release Date:12/07/1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Character:The Governess
Release Date:06/07/1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Character:Mrs. Bunce
Release Date:23/05/1912
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Character:
Release Date:23/03/1912
The Old Silver Watch
Character:
Release Date:19/03/1912
Irene's Infatuation
Character:Mme. Frangiapani
Release Date:06/03/1912
Stenographer Wanted
Character:The Chosen Stenographer
Release Date:26/02/1912
The First Violin
Character:Helen's Step-Mother
Release Date:02/02/1912
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
Character:Mrs. Bunny
Release Date:30/12/1911
Her Crowning Glory
Character:The Governess
Release Date:11/09/1911
The Strategy of Ann
Character:Headmistress of the School
Release Date:29/07/1911
Treasure Trove
Character:Patience
Release Date:25/07/1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Character:Mrs. Nag
Release Date:14/07/1911
Two Overcoats
Character:Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
Release Date:24/06/1911
The Sleep Walker
Character:
Release Date:23/06/1911
The Wooing of Winifred
Character:
Release Date:11/04/1911
The New Stenographer
Character:Lucille Montgomery
Release Date:18/02/1911
In Northern Forests
Character:
Release Date:01/01/1911
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Character:Uplifter
Release Date:30/06/1910
The Way of Man
Character:The Mother
Release Date:28/06/1909
Her First Biscuits
Character:
Release Date:17/06/1909
What Drink Did
Character:
Release Date:02/06/1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Character:The Lady Book Agent
Release Date:10/05/1909
A Wreath in Time
Character:Actress on Stage
Release Date:08/02/1909
Those Awful Hats
Character:Woman with largest hat
Release Date:25/01/1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Character:Guest
Release Date:21/01/1909
Mrs. Jones Entertains
Character:Leader of the Temperance League
Release Date:07/01/1909
The Helping Hand
Character:Mrs. Harcourt
Release Date:29/12/1908
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