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