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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).
Birth Name
Flora Brooks
Born
Monday, 17 June 1867
Died
Thursday, 04 January 1940
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Women | Woman Window Tapper | 1939 |
Dodge City | League Member | 1939 |
Stablemates | Singer at Beulah's | 1938 |
A Night at the Movies | Movie Patron | 1937 |
Bad Guy | Beauty Shop Customer | 1937 |
London by Night | Old Woman Pulling Down Shade | 1937 |
Way Out West | Maw | 1937 |
When Love Is Young | Performer | 1937 |
Mama Steps Out | Old Maid in Hall | 1937 |
Postal Inspector | The Ugly Fraud | 1936 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Women | Woman Window Tapper | 1939 |
Dodge City | League Member | 1939 |
Stablemates | Singer at Beulah's | 1938 |
A Night at the Movies | Movie Patron | 1937 |
Bad Guy | Beauty Shop Customer | 1937 |
London by Night | Old Woman Pulling Down Shade | 1937 |
Way Out West | Maw | 1937 |
When Love Is Young | Performer | 1937 |
Mama Steps Out | Old Maid in Hall | 1937 |
Postal Inspector | The Ugly Fraud | 1936 |
Women Are Trouble | Society Woman | 1936 |
San Francisco | Earthquake Survivor | 1936 |
Show Boat | Woman | 1936 |
Moonlight Murder | Attendee at Hollywood Bowl with Seat Cushion | 1936 |
The Painted Veil | German | 1934 |
The Scarlet Letter | Faith Bartle, the Gossip | 1934 |
March of the Movies | Self - film clip | 1933 |
Play Girl | 19-Cent Woman | 1932 |
Sweet Kitty Bellairs | Gossip | 1930 |
The Matrimonial Bed | Vosin | 1930 |
Say It with Songs | 1929 | |
Come Across | Cassie | 1929 |
The Faker | Emma | 1929 |
Five and Ten Cent Annie | Wedding Party Guest | 1928 |
The Wife's Relations | Mrs. Cyrus Dodd | 1928 |
Quality Street | Mary Willoughby | 1927 |
Rose of the Golden West | Señora Comba | 1927 |
The Cat and the Canary | Susan / Susan Sillsby | 1927 |
Captain Salvation | Mrs. Snifty | 1927 |
The Brown Derby | Aunt Anna | 1926 |
Lover's Island | Amanda Dawson | 1925 |
A Kiss for Cinderella | Second Customer | 1925 |
His Buddy's Wife | Mirandy | 1925 |
The Live Wire | Pansy Darwin | 1925 |
The Wrongdoers | Society Woman | 1925 |
The Adventurous Sex | The Grandmother | 1925 |
Men and Women | Kate | 1925 |
The Midnight Girl | Landlady | 1925 |
Monsieur Beaucaire | Duchesse de Montmorency | 1924 |
Luck | The Plumber's Best Girl | 1923 |
When Knighthood Was in Flower | A French Lady-in-Waiting | 1922 |
Orphan Sally | 1922 | |
Orphans of the Storm | Starving Peasant | 1921 |
Birthright | 1920 | |
Oh Boy! | Miss Penelope Budd | 1919 |
The Great Adventure | Rags's Aunt | 1918 |
Prudence, the Pirate | The Aunt | 1916 |
How Cissy Made Good | Self | 1915 |
Bunny Backslides | Flora Winslow - a Widow | 1914 |
Hearts and Diamonds | Miss Rachel Whipple | 1914 |
The Pickpocket | Patrick's Suffragette Wife | 1913 |
A Lady and Her Maid | 1913 | |
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty | Mrs. Evelyn Jones | 1913 |
The Classmate's Frolic | The Director of the School | 1913 |
Freckles | Madame Legrand | 1912 |
Bunny All at Sea | Flirty Passenger | 1912 |
An Elephant on Their Hands | 1912 | |
A Vitagraph Romance | Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary | 1912 |
Bunny's Suicide | Mrs. Spink | 1912 |
Suing Susan | Miss Susan - a Spinster | 1912 |
The Old Silver Watch | 1912 | |
Stenographers Wanted | The Chosen Stenographer | 1912 |
A Cure for Pokeritis | Mrs. Sharpe | 1912 |
Her Crowning Glory | The Governess | 1911 |
The Way of Man | The Mother | 1909 |
Her First Biscuits | 1909 | |
What Drink Did | 1909 | |
Those Awful Hats | 1909 | |
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party | Guest | 1909 |