Flora Finch
Known for: Acting
Born: June 16, 1867
Died: January 4, 1940
Place of birth: London
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
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7.2
The Women
1939
6.3
Stablemates
1938
5.9
A Night at the Movies
1937
7.1
Way Out West
1937
7.3
Mama Steps Out
1937
7.0
Postal Inspector
1936
7.0
Women Are Trouble
1936
6.7
Show Boat
1936
5.1
The Scarlet Letter
1934
6.5
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
1930
6.4
The Matrimonial Bed
1930
5.5
Say It with Songs
1929
9.0
Come Across
1929
8.0
The Faker
1929
7.0
The Haunted House
1928
10.0
Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928
8.0
The Wife's Relations
1928
6.9
Quality Street
1927
9.0
Rose of the Golden West
1927
6.9
The Cat and the Canary
1927
6.0
Captain Salvation
1927
8.0
Are Brunettes Safe?
19278.0
Her Indiscretion
1927
10.0
'Morning, Judge
1926
6.5
The Brown Derby
1926
7.0
Fifth Avenue
19269.0
Lover's Island
1925
6.0
A Kiss for Cinderella
1925
8.0
His Buddy's Wife
1925
8.0
The Live Wire
1925
7.0
The Wrongdoers
1925
10.0
The Adventurous Sex
1925
8.0
Men and Women
1925
5.8
The Midnight Girl
1925
5.6
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
8.0
Roulette
1924
8.5
Luck
1923
9.0
Man Wanted
1922
5.8
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
6.8
Orphans of the Storm
1921
10.0
Lessons in Love
1921
9.0
Birthright
1920
7.0
Dawn
1919
8.0
Oh Boy!
1919
NR
The Great Adventure
1918
NR
Prudence the Pirate
1916
NR
A Night Out
19168.0
Heavy Villains
1915NR
The Lady of Shalott
19158.0
War
1915
NR
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915
7.0
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
19147.0
Fixing Their Dads
1914
8.0
Bunny Backslides
1914
5.0
Hearts and Diamonds
1914
NR
Polishing Up
19149.0
The Locked House
19148.0
The Vases of Hymen
19147.0
A Train of Incidents
19148.0
The Old Maid's Baby
1914
NR
Father's Flirtation
1914
7.0
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
1914
6.5
Tangled Tangoists
19147.0
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914NR
Love's Old Dream
1914NR
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
1913
5.0
Father's Hatband
1913NR
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
1913
7.0
The Feudists
1913
6.5
Those Troublesome Tresses
1913
6.3
The Pickpocket
1913
9.0
Bunny's Dilemma
1913
6.0
A Lady and Her Maid
1913
9.0
Vampire of the Desert
19139.0
Disciplining Daisy
19137.0
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
19137.0
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
19137.3
Stenographer Troubles
19135.0
The Classmate's Frolic
19135.5
When Mary Grew Up
1913
NR
The Little Minister
191310.0
Three Black Bags
191310.0
When the Press Speaks
1913
4.9
A Cure for Pokeritis
1912
6.5
Freckles
1912
5.5
The Unusual Honeymoon
19126.5
The Hand Bag
19129.0
An Elephant on Their Hands
19127.0
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
19127.0
She Cried
1912
6.2
A Vitagraph Romance
19127.7
Bunny's Suicide
19129.0
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
19129.0
Saving an Audience
19124.3
Suing Susan
19128.0
The Foster Child
19124.0
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
1912
6.0
Diamond Cut Diamond
191210.0
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
19127.0
The Old Silver Watch
19129.0
Irene's Infatuation
19124.0
Stenographer Wanted
1912
NR
The First Violin
1912
7.0
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911
5.1
Her Crowning Glory
191110.0
The Strategy of Ann
19117.0
Treasure Trove
1911NR
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
191110.0
Two Overcoats
191110.0
The Sleep Walker
19118.0
The Wooing of Winifred
1911
4.0
The New Stenographer
1911
5.0
In Northern Forests
191110.0
The Troublesome Baby
1910
5.0
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910
4.0
The Way of Man
1909
3.0
Her First Biscuits
1909
4.5
What Drink Did
19092.5
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
19094.0
A Wreath in Time
1909
6.1
Those Awful Hats
1909
3.0
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
19093.2
Mrs. Jones Entertains
19092.0
The Helping Hand
1908