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Flora Finch
Actor
Born June 16, 1867Died January 4, 1940 (72 years)
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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).
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).
Filmography
| 1986 | Laurel & Hardy (TV Series) · as Maw (1986) |
| 1939 | The Women · as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Dodge City · as League Member |
| 1938 | Stablemates · as Singer At Beulah's |
| 1937 | Bad Guy · as Beauty Shop Customer |
| 1937 | London by Night · as Old Woman Pulling Down Shade |
| 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 | San Francisco · as Earthquake Survivor |
| 1936 | |
| 1936 | Moonlight Murder · as Attendee At Hollywood Bowl With Seat Cushion |
| 1934 | The Painted Veil · as German |
| 1934 | The Scarlet Letter · as Faith Bartle, The Gossip |
| 1932 | Play Girl · as 19-Cent Woman |
| 1931 | The Bride's Mistake · as Maid |
| 1930 | Sweet Kitty Bellairs · as Gossip |
| 1930 | The Matrimonial Bed · as Vosin |
| 1929 | Say It with Songs · as Radio Station Beauty Expert |
| 1928 | The Wife's Relations · as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd |
| 1927 | Quality Street · as Mary Willoughby |
| 1927 | The Cat and the Canary · as Susan |
| 1927 | Captain Salvation · as Mrs. Snifty |
| 1925 | A Kiss for Cinderella · as Second Customer |
| 1925 | The Midnight Girl · as Landlady |
| 1924 | Monsieur Beaucaire · as Duchesse De Montmorency |
| 1922 | When Knighthood Was in Flower · as French Countess (uncredited) |
| 1921 | Orphans of the Storm · as A Starving Peasant (uncredited) |
| 1914 | Bunco Bill's Visit · as The Farmer's Wife |
| 1914 | The Chicken Inspector · as Miss Birch |
| 1914 | Bunny's Scheme · as Ethel Dana |
| 1914 | A Change in Baggage Checks · as Stella Triplight |
| 1914 | Bunny's Birthday · as Mrs. Bunny |
| 1914 | Cutey's Vacation · as Miss Gammon Olde |
| 1914 | Bunny's Mistake · as Mrs. Bunny |
| 1913 | The Golf Game and the Bonnet · as Flora - The Wife |
| 1913 | The Girl at the Lunch Counter · as Susie Finch |
| 1913 | Fatty's Affair of Honor · as Cast |
| 1913 | Father's Hatband · as Mrs. Henpecko |
| 1913 | The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction · as Edith - The Widow |
| 1913 | Bingles' Nightmare; or, If It Had Only Been True · as Bingles' Wife |
| 1913 | A Gentleman of Fashion · as Nanette Stevens - The Heiress |
| 1913 | Hubby's Toothache · as Wifey |
| 1913 | Bunny as a Reporter · as Leader Of The Suffragettes |
| 1913 | Bunny's Birthday Surprise · as Mrs. Bunny |
| 1913 | His Life for His Emperor · as Flora |
| 1913 | Cupid's Hired Man · as Anne Matthews, A Spinster |
| 1913 | Bingles Mends the Clock · as Mrs. Bingles |
| 1913 | The Fortune · as Muriel - Jake's Wife |
| 1913 | He Answered the Ad · as Amanda, John's Wife |
| 1913 | The Dog House Builders · as Mrs. Mealy |
| 1913 | His Honor, the Mayor · as Aunt Minerva |
| 1913 | Hubby Buys a Baby · as Mrs. Bun |
| 1913 | And His Wife Came Back · as Miss Finch - An Old Maid |
| 1912 | Freckles · as Madame Legrand |
| 1912 | Doctor Bridget · as Freddie's Mother |
| 1912 | In the Flat Above · as Miss Finch - A Pupil |
| 1909 | Those Awful Hats · as Woman With Largest Hat |