
Flora Finch
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).
124 acting credits
Acting · 124

The Women
1939

Rose of the Golden West
1927

Way Out West
1937

Stablemates
1938

Orphans of the Storm
1921

Captain Salvation
1927

Show Boat
1936

The Cat and the Canary
1927

Say It with Songs
1929

The Scarlet Letter
1934

Sweet Kitty Bellairs
1930

When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922

A Cure for Pokeritis
1912

Roulette
1924

Mama Steps Out
1937

Father's Flirtation
1914

Luck
1923

Postal Inspector
1936

A Night at the Movies
1937

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909

Quality Street
1927

The Matrimonial Bed
1930

Her Crowning Glory
1911

Captain Barnacle's Legacy
1912
Suing Susan
1912

The Faker
1929

Fifth Avenue
1926

Man Wanted
1922

Those Awful Hats
1909

Oh Boy!
1919
The Troublesome Baby
1910
When Mary Grew Up
1913
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
1913
Her Indiscretion
1927

Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928

The Great Adventure
1918
Stenographer Wanted
1912

Come Across
1929

Freckles
1912

Hearts and Diamonds
1914

The Haunted House
1928

The Wrongdoers
1925

Prudence the Pirate
1916

The Feudists
1913

A Kiss for Cinderella
1925

Her First Biscuits
1909

The Little Minister
1913

The First Violin
1912

Women Are Trouble
1936

The Adventurous Sex
1925

The Live Wire
1925

Monsieur Beaucaire
1924
The Locked House
1914
A Wreath in Time
1909

Mr. Bunny in Disguise
1914
A Train of Incidents
1914
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
1912

Men and Women
1925

The Midnight Girl
1925
Treasure Trove
1911
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911

Polishing Up
1914

Dawn
1919
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909
Irene's Infatuation
1912
War
1915
Two Overcoats
1911

The Unusual Honeymoon
1912
Lover's Island
1925
The Helping Hand
1908
Saving an Audience
1912

A Lady and Her Maid
1913
The Lady of Shalott
1915
Stenographer Troubles
1913
Fixing Their Dads
1914

The Brown Derby
1926

The Way of Man
1909

What Drink Did
1909

The New Stenographer
1911

A Vitagraph Romance
1912
She Cried
1912
The Old Silver Watch
1912

In Northern Forests
1911

Vampire of the Desert
1913

'Morning, Judge
1926

In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911
The Strategy of Ann
1911
Those Troublesome Tresses
1913

Tangled Tangoists
1914
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
1913

Are Brunettes Safe?
1927
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
1913
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912
Mrs. Jones Entertains
1909

The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915

Father's Hatband
1913

Lessons in Love
1921
Love's Old Dream
1914

Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910
The Sleep Walker
1911
Heavy Villains
1915

Bunny Backslides
1914

The Wife's Relations
1928
An Elephant on Their Hands
1912
Disciplining Daisy
1913
The Wooing of Winifred
1911

The Pickpocket
1913
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914
The Vases of Hymen
1914
The Classmate's Frolic
1913
The Foster Child
1912
Three Black Bags
1913
Bunny's Suicide
1912
The Old Maid's Baby
1914
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
1913

Bunny's Dilemma
1913
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
1912

Sweeney's Christmas Bird
1914

His Buddy's Wife
1925

Diamond Cut Diamond
1912
The Hand Bag
1912

A Night Out
1916
When the Press Speaks
1913

Birthright
1920