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