Flora Finch

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

159

Movies

124

Born: June 16, 1867 – January 4, 1940
From: London

Biography

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).

Works

124 films

The Women

19397.2

Way Out West

19377.1

Dawn

19197.0

Show Boat

19366.7

Quality Street

19276.9

Her Indiscretion

19278.0

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

19105.0

The Cat and the Canary

19276.9

Orphans of the Storm

19216.8

A Kiss for Cinderella

19256.0

When Knighthood Was in Flower

19225.8

Disciplining Daisy

19139.0

The Midnight Girl

19255.8

Birthright

19209.0

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

19306.5

Father's Hatband

19135.0

The Matrimonial Bed

19306.4

Say It with Songs

19295.5

Oh Boy!

19198.0

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

Captain Salvation

19276.0

Father's Flirtation

1914

His Buddy's Wife

19258.0

Man Wanted

19229.0

Mrs. Jones Entertains

19093.2

Postal Inspector

19367.0

Bunny Backslides

19148.0

Roulette

19248.0

The Wife's Relations

19288.0

Mama Steps Out

19377.3

The Old Silver Watch

19127.0

Diamond Cut Diamond

19126.0

Her First Biscuits

19093.0

Five and Ten Cent Annie

192810.0

The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty

19137.0

The Way of Man

19094.0

Luck

19238.5

The Faker

19298.0

A Night at the Movies

19375.9

The Wrongdoers

19257.0

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

Are Brunettes Safe?

19278.0

Her Crowning Glory

19115.1

Women Are Trouble

19367.0

The Brown Derby

19266.5

What Drink Did

19094.5

The Haunted House

19287.0

Those Awful Hats

19096.1

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

19093.0

The Little Minister

1913

Stablemates

19386.3

The Golf Game and the Bonnet

1913

Polishing Up

1914

The Troublesome Step-Daughters

19124.0

A Night Out

1916

A Cure for Pokeritis

19124.9

Fifth Avenue

19267.0

A Lady and Her Maid

19136.0

The Feudists

19137.0

War

19158.0

Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes

191210.0

Lover's Island

19259.0

Stenographer Troubles

19137.3

Cutey and the Chorus Girls

19137.0

Monsieur Beaucaire

19245.6

The Live Wire

19258.0

Come Across

19299.0

Jones and the Lady Book Agent

19092.5

The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction

1913

A Vitagraph Romance

19126.2

Mr. Bunny in Disguise

19147.0

The First Violin

1912

Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers

19127.0

Love's Old Dream

1914

The Sleep Walker

191110.0

Vampire of the Desert

19139.0

Heavy Villains

19158.0

The Great Adventure

1918

The Helping Hand

19082.0

The Wooing of Winifred

19118.0

Bunny's Suicide

19127.7

The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

1911

The Classmate's Frolic

19135.0

Men and Women

19258.0

The Foster Child

19128.0

When Mary Grew Up

19135.5

In Northern Forests

19115.0

The Troublesome Baby

191010.0

Saving an Audience

19129.0

Hearts and Diamonds

19145.0

Stenographer Wanted

19124.0

The Strategy of Ann

191110.0

Bunny's Dilemma

19139.0

The Locked House

19149.0

The New Stenographer

19114.0

The Hand Bag

19126.5

Suing Susan

19124.3

Freckles

19126.5

Prudence the Pirate

1916

Three Black Bags

191310.0

The Old Maid's Baby

19148.0

Captain Barnacle's Legacy

19129.0

Treasure Trove

19117.0

The Unusual Honeymoon

19125.5

She Cried

19127.0

Tangled Tangoists

19146.5

The Adventurous Sex

192510.0

The Pickpocket

19136.3

A Wreath in Time

19094.0

A Train of Incidents

19147.0

An Elephant on Their Hands

19129.0

Lessons in Love

192110.0

Fixing Their Dads

19147.0

When the Press Speaks

191310.0

Irene's Infatuation

19129.0

The Lady of Shalott

1915

Those Troublesome Tresses

19136.5

Two Overcoats

191110.0

A Change in Baggage Checks

19147.0

Sweeney's Christmas Bird

19147.0

The Vases of Hymen

19148.0

'Morning, Judge

192610.0

The Smoking Out of Bella Butts

1915

In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath

19117.0