Acting
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).
Filmography
The Women
Film · 1939
Stablemates
Film · 1938
A Night at the Movies
Film · 1937
Way Out West
Film · 1937
Mama Steps Out
Film · 1937
Show Boat
Film · 1936
Women Are Trouble
Film · 1936
Postal Inspector
Film · 1936
The Scarlet Letter
Film · 1934
The Matrimonial Bed
Film · 1930
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Film · 1930
The Faker
Film · 1929
Say It with Songs
Film · 1929
Come Across
Film · 1929
The Haunted House
Film · 1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Film · 1928
The Wife's Relations
Film · 1928
Captain Salvation
Film · 1927
The Cat and the Canary
Film · 1927
Quality Street
Film · 1927
Rose of the Golden West
Film · 1927
Her Indiscretion
Film · 1927
Are Brunettes Safe?
Film · 1927
The Brown Derby
Film · 1926
Fifth Avenue
Film · 1926
'Morning, Judge
Film · 1926
The Wrongdoers
Film · 1925
Men and Women
Film · 1925
The Live Wire
Film · 1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
Film · 1925
The Midnight Girl
Film · 1925
The Adventurous Sex
Film · 1925
Lover's Island
Film · 1925
His Buddy's Wife
Film · 1925
Roulette
Film · 1924
Monsieur Beaucaire
Film · 1924
Luck
Film · 1923
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Film · 1922
Man Wanted
Film · 1922
A Social Error
Film · 1922
Orphans of the Storm
Film · 1921
Lessons in Love
Film · 1921
Birthright
Film · 1920
Oh Boy!
Film · 1919
Dawn
Film · 1919
The Great Adventure
Film · 1918
A Night Out
Film · 1916
Prudence the Pirate
Film · 1916
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
Film · 1915
The Lady of Shalott
Film · 1915
Heavy Villains
Film · 1915
War
Film · 1915
Love's Old Dream
Film · 1914
Hearts and Diamonds
Film · 1914
Polishing Up
Film · 1914
Bunny Backslides
Film · 1914
Tangled Tangoists
Film · 1914
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
Film · 1914
A Train of Incidents
Film · 1914
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
Film · 1914
Fixing Their Dads
Film · 1914
The Locked House
Film · 1914
The Vases of Hymen
Film · 1914
The Old Maid's Baby
Film · 1914
Father's Flirtation
Film · 1914
A Change in Baggage Checks
Film · 1914
The Feudists
Film · 1913
Vampire of the Desert
Film · 1913
A Lady and Her Maid
Film · 1913
The Pickpocket
Film · 1913
The Little Minister
Film · 1913
Father's Hatband
Film · 1913
The Classmate's Frolic
Film · 1913
Those Troublesome Tresses
Film · 1913
Stenographer Troubles
Film · 1913
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
Film · 1913
When the Press Speaks
Film · 1913
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Film · 1913
Three Black Bags
Film · 1913
Bunny's Dilemma
Film · 1913
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
Film · 1913
Disciplining Daisy
Film · 1913
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
Film · 1913
When Mary Grew Up
Film · 1913
The Old Silver Watch
Film · 1912
A Cure for Pokeritis
Film · 1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
Film · 1912
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
Film · 1912
The First Violin
Film · 1912
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
Film · 1912
Saving an Audience
Film · 1912
The Foster Child
Film · 1912
Irene's Infatuation
Film · 1912
An Elephant on Their Hands
Film · 1912
A Vitagraph Romance
Film · 1912
Diamond Cut Diamond
Film · 1912
Bunny's Suicide
Film · 1912
Freckles
Film · 1912
The Hand Bag
Film · 1912
She Cried
Film · 1912
Stenographer Wanted
Film · 1912
Suing Susan
Film · 1912
An Unusual Honeymoon
Film · 1912
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
Film · 1912
The Wooing of Winifred
Film · 1911
The Sleep Walker
Film · 1911
Treasure Trove
Film · 1911
Her Crowning Glory
Film · 1911
The Strategy of Ann
Film · 1911
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
Film · 1911
The New Stenographer
Film · 1911
In Northern Forests
Film · 1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
Film · 1911
Two Overcoats
Film · 1911
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Film · 1910
The Troublesome Baby
Film · 1910
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I
Film · 1910
Those Awful Hats
Film · 1909
What Drink Did
Film · 1909
The Way of Man
Film · 1909
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Film · 1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
Film · 1909
A Wreath in Time
Film · 1909
Her First Biscuits
Film · 1909
Mrs. Jones Entertains
Film · 1909
The Helping Hand
Film · 1908