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Flora Finch
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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 am…
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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).
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BODY OF WORK
Flora Finch's Filmography
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The Women
as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
Stablemates
as Singer at Beulah's
A Night at the Movies
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
Way Out West
as Maw (uncredited)
Mama Steps Out
as Old Maid in Hall
Postal Inspector
as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
Women Are Trouble
as Society Woman
Show Boat
The Scarlet Letter
as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
as Gossip
The Matrimonial Bed
as Vosin
Say It with Songs
as Radio station beauty expert
Come Across
as Cassie
The Faker
as Emma
The Haunted House
as Mrs.Rackham
Five and Ten Cent Annie
as Wedding Guest
The Wife's Relations
as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
Quality Street
as Mary Willoughby
Rose of the Golden West
as Señora Comba
The Cat and the Canary
as Susan
Captain Salvation
as Mrs. Snifty
Are Brunettes Safe?
as School Teacher (uncredited)
No Poster
Her Indiscretion
'Morning, Judge
as The Judge's Wife
The Brown Derby
as Aunt Anna
Fifth Avenue
as Mrs. Pettygrew
No Poster
Lover's Island
as Amanda Dawson
A Kiss for Cinderella
as Second Customer
His Buddy's Wife
as Mirandy
The Live Wire
as Pansy Darwin
The Wrongdoers
as Society Woman
The Adventurous Sex
as The Grandmother
Men and Women
as Kate
The Midnight Girl
as Landlady
Monsieur Beaucaire
as Duchesse de Montmorency
Roulette
as Mrs. Smith-Jones
Luck
as The Plumber's Best Girl
No Poster
A Social Error
Man Wanted
When Knighthood Was in Flower
as French Countess (uncredited)
Orphans of the Storm
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Lessons in Love
as Agatha Calthorpe
Birthright
Dawn
as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
Oh Boy!
as Miss Penelope Budd
The Great Adventure
as Rags's Aunt
Prudence the Pirate
as The Aunt
A Night Out
as Mrs. Marie Haslem
No Poster
Heavy Villains
as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
No Poster
The Lady of Shalott
as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
No Poster
War
as Frau Schultz
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
as Bella Butts
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
as Mrs. Sweeney
No Poster
Fixing Their Dads
as The Widow Hathaway
Bunny Backslides
as Flora Winslow - a Widow
Hearts and Diamonds
as Miss Rachel Whipple
Polishing Up
as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
No Poster
The Locked House
as Mrs. Bunny
No Poster
The Vases of Hymen
as Annette Kershaw
No Poster
A Train of Incidents
as Miss Prim
No Poster
The Old Maid's Baby
as Flora the Old Maid
Father's Flirtation
as Mrs. Bunny
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
as Euphemia Jones
Tangled Tangoists
No Poster
A Change in Baggage Checks
as Stella Triplight
No Poster
Love's Old Dream
as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
No Poster
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
as Flora - The Wife
Father's Hatband
as Mrs. Henpecko
No Poster
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
as Edith - The Widow
The Feudists
as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
Those Troublesome Tresses
as Mrs. Jones
The Pickpocket
as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
Bunny's Dilemma
as Aunt Eliza
A Lady and Her Maid
Vampire of the Desert
as Hagar
No Poster
Disciplining Daisy
No Poster
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
as Flora Scrawny
No Poster
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
No Poster
Stenographer Troubles
as A Typist
No Poster
The Classmate's Frolic
as The Director of the School
No Poster
When Mary Grew Up
The Little Minister
as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
No Poster
Three Black Bags
as Mrs. Brown
No Poster
When the Press Speaks
as Bealla Wilfax
A Cure for Pokeritis
as Mrs. Sharpe
Freckles
as Madame Legrand
An Unusual Honeymoon
as Mary McGregor, His Wife
No Poster
The Hand Bag
as Miss Amanda De Rosville
No Poster
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
as Mrs Wozenham
No Poster
An Elephant on Their Hands
No Poster
She Cried
as Factory Worker
A Vitagraph Romance
as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
No Poster
Bunny's Suicide
as Mrs. Spink
No Poster
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
as Markham's African Sister
No Poster
Saving an Audience
as A Suffragette
No Poster
Suing Susan
as Miss Susan - a Spinster
No Poster
The Foster Child
No Poster
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
as The Governess
Diamond Cut Diamond
as Mrs. Bunce
No Poster
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
No Poster
The Old Silver Watch
No Poster
Irene's Infatuation
as Mme. Frangiapani
No Poster
Stenographer Wanted
as The Chosen Stenographer
The First Violin
as Helen's Step-Mother
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
as Mrs. Bunny
Her Crowning Glory
as The Governess
No Poster
The Strategy of Ann
as Headmistress of the School
No Poster
Treasure Trove
as Patience
No Poster
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
as Mrs. Nag
No Poster
Two Overcoats
as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
No Poster
The Sleep Walker
No Poster
The Wooing of Winifred
The New Stenographer
as Lucille Montgomery
In Northern Forests
No Poster
The Troublesome Baby
as Mrs. Samuels
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Part I
as Ophelia St. Clare
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
as Uplifter
The Way of Man
as The Mother
Her First Biscuits
What Drink Did
No Poster
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
as The Lady Book Agent
No Poster
A Wreath in Time
as Actress on Stage
Those Awful Hats
as Woman with largest hat
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
as Guest
No Poster
Mrs. Jones Entertains
as Leader of the Temperance League
No Poster
The Helping Hand
as Mrs. Harcourt