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

Her Indiscretion

19278.0

Show Boat

19366.7

A Kiss for Cinderella

19256.0

Dawn

19197.0

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

19105.0

The Cat and the Canary

19276.9

Orphans of the Storm

19216.8

Disciplining Daisy

19139.0

The Midnight Girl

19255.8

Birthright

19209.0

Quality Street

19276.9

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

19306.5

Mama Steps Out

19377.3

The Matrimonial Bed

19306.4

When Knighthood Was in Flower

19225.8

The Wife's Relations

19288.0

Man Wanted

19229.0

Father's Hatband

19135.0

Say It with Songs

19295.5

Diamond Cut Diamond

19126.0

Rose of the Golden West

19279.0

Postal Inspector

19367.0

Roulette

19248.0

Captain Salvation

19276.0

The Old Silver Watch

19127.0

A Night at the Movies

19375.9

A Lady and Her Maid

19136.0

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

Women Are Trouble

19367.0

Oh Boy!

19198.0

Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes

191210.0

His Buddy's Wife

19258.0

Stablemates

19386.3

Mrs. Jones Entertains

19093.2

The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty

19137.0

The Little Minister

1913

The Faker

19298.0

Luck

19238.5

Come Across

19299.0

The Haunted House

19287.0

Five and Ten Cent Annie

192810.0

Bunny Backslides

19148.0

The Golf Game and the Bonnet

1913

Are Brunettes Safe?

19278.0

Fifth Avenue

19267.0

Monsieur Beaucaire

19245.6

The Brown Derby

19266.5

A Cure for Pokeritis

19124.9

What Drink Did

19094.5

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

19093.0

Father's Flirtation

1914

A Vitagraph Romance

19126.2

Her First Biscuits

19093.0

Those Awful Hats

19096.1

The Great Adventure

1918

A Night Out

1916

The Wrongdoers

19257.0

Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers

19127.0

The Troublesome Baby

191010.0

The Troublesome Step-Daughters

19124.0

Stenographer Troubles

19137.3

Vampire of the Desert

19139.0

In Northern Forests

19115.0

The Wooing of Winifred

19118.0

The Classmate's Frolic

19135.0

The Helping Hand

19082.0

The First Violin

1912

Suing Susan

19124.3

The Way of Man

19094.0

When Mary Grew Up

19135.5

The Subduing of Mrs. Nag

1911

The Unusual Honeymoon

19125.5

Mr. Bunny in Disguise

19147.0

The Strategy of Ann

191110.0

The Feudists

19137.0

Her Crowning Glory

19115.1

Three Black Bags

191310.0

Jones and the Lady Book Agent

19092.5

Hearts and Diamonds

19145.0

Stenographer Wanted

19124.0

Lessons in Love

192110.0

Love's Old Dream

1914

Freckles

19126.5

The Locked House

19149.0

Bunny's Dilemma

19139.0

Captain Barnacle's Legacy

19129.0

Saving an Audience

19129.0

Polishing Up

1914

The Adventurous Sex

192510.0

Bunny's Suicide

19127.7

Prudence the Pirate

1916

Lover's Island

19259.0

The New Stenographer

19114.0

War

19158.0

She Cried

19127.0

Men and Women

19258.0

The Live Wire

19258.0

'Morning, Judge

192610.0

Heavy Villains

19158.0

The Sleep Walker

191110.0

The Foster Child

19128.0

The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction

1913

The Hand Bag

19126.5

Tangled Tangoists

19146.5

Cutey and the Chorus Girls

19137.0

Fixing Their Dads

19147.0

The Old Maid's Baby

19148.0

Treasure Trove

19117.0

A Train of Incidents

19147.0

The Lady of Shalott

1915

An Elephant on Their Hands

19129.0

Those Troublesome Tresses

19136.5

The Pickpocket

19136.3

A Wreath in Time

19094.0

Two Overcoats

191110.0

When the Press Speaks

191310.0

Sweeney's Christmas Bird

19147.0

The Smoking Out of Bella Butts

1915

Irene's Infatuation

19129.0

The Vases of Hymen

19148.0

In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath

19117.0

A Change in Baggage Checks

19147.0