Flora Finch

Known for ActingBorn 1867-06-16Died 1940-01-04 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).Read more

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Five and Ten Cent Annie

'Morning, Judge

The Adventurous Sex

Lessons in Love

When the Press Speaks

Three Black Bags

Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes

The Sleep Walker

The Strategy of Ann

Two Overcoats

The Troublesome Baby

Come Across

Rose of the Golden West

Are Brunettes Safe?

Lover's Island

Man Wanted

Birthright

The Locked House

Vampire of the Desert

Bunny's Dilemma

Disciplining Daisy

Captain Barnacle's Legacy

Saving an Audience

Irene's Infatuation

An Elephant on Their Hands

Luck

The Faker

The Wife's Relations

Her Indiscretion

Men and Women

The Live Wire

His Buddy's Wife

Roulette

Oh Boy!

Heavy Villains

War

Bunny Backslides

The Vases of Hymen

The Old Maid's Baby

The Foster Child

The Wooing of Winifred

Bunny's Suicide

Mama Steps Out

The Women

Way Out West

Stenographer Troubles

Women Are Trouble

Postal Inspector