Flora Finch
Acting
Born 1867-06-16
Died 1940-01-04
London
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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).
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The Women
Way Out West
Show Boat
Her Indiscretion
Quality Street
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
Dawn
A Kiss for Cinderella
Orphans of the Storm
Father's Hatband
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Rose of the Golden West
Say It with Songs
The Cat and the Canary
The Matrimonial Bed
Birthright
Captain Salvation
The Midnight Girl
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Women Are Trouble
Mrs. Jones Entertains
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
Man Wanted
Diamond Cut Diamond
Roulette
Disciplining Daisy
Bunny Backslides
His Buddy's Wife
Fifth Avenue
A Night at the Movies
Mama Steps Out
Five and Ten Cent Annie
The Brown Derby
Her First Biscuits
Oh Boy!
The Old Silver Watch
Father's Flirtation
The Faker
The Wrongdoers
The Wife's Relations
In Northern Forests
Postal Inspector
The Scarlet Letter
Those Awful Hats
Are Brunettes Safe?
The Haunted House
Lessons in Love
The Helping Hand
A Lady and Her Maid
A Cure for Pokeritis
Luck
The Little Minister
Stablemates
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
A Vitagraph Romance
The Way of Man
What Drink Did
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
Saving an Audience
The Great Adventure
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