Flora Finch
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Person Details
Birthday: 1867-06-17 22:54:37
Death: 1940-01-04 22:54:37
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth:
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Movie Involvements: 37
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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).
Most Famous Work
Orphans of the Storm
(1921) A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
Captain Salvation
(1927) Mrs. Snifty
The Scarlet Letter
(1934) Faith Bartle, the Gossip
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
(1910) Uplifter
When Knighthood Was in Flower
(1922) French Countess (uncredited)
A Kiss for Cinderella
(1925) Second Customer
Women Are Trouble
(1936) Society Woman
Stablemates
(1938) Singer at Beulah'sActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Woman Window Tapper (uncredited) | |
| 1938 | Singer at Beulah's | |
| 1937 | Movie Patron (uncredited) | |
| Maw (uncredited) | ||
| Old Maid in Hall | ||
| 1936 | Society Woman | |
| 1934 | Faith Bartle, the Gossip | |
| 1930 | Gossip | |
| Vosin | ||
| 1929 | Radio station beauty expert | |
| Cassie | ||
| Emma | ||
| 1928 | Mrs.Rackham | |
| 1927 | Mary Willoughby | |
| Señora Comba | ||
| Susan | ||
| Mrs. Snifty | ||
| 1926 | The Judge's Wife | |
| Aunt Anna | ||
| Mrs. Pettygrew | ||
| 1925 | Second Customer | |
| Pansy Darwin | ||
| Society Woman | ||
| The Grandmother | ||
| Kate | ||
| Landlady | ||
| 1924 | Duchesse de Montmorency | |
| Mrs. Smith-Jones | ||
| 1923 | The Plumber's Best Girl | |
| 1922 | French Countess (uncredited) | |
| 1921 | A Starving Peasant (uncredited) | |
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1919 | Miss Penelope Budd | |
| 1918 | Rags's Aunt | |
| 1916 | The Aunt | |
| Mrs. Marie Haslem | ||
| 1915 | Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott | |
| Bella Butts | ||
| 1914 | The Widow Hathaway | |
| Flora Winslow - a Widow | ||
| Miss Rachel Whipple | ||
| Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor | ||
| Miss Prim | ||
| Euphemia Jones | ||
| N/A | ||
| Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart | ||
| 1913 | Mrs. Henpecko | |
| Second Wife, Mrs. Craig | ||
| Mrs. Jones | ||
| Patrick's Suffragette Wife | ||
| Aunt Eliza | ||
| N/A | ||
| Hagar | ||
| Flora Scrawny | ||
| Mrs. Evelyn Jones | ||
| A Typist | ||
| The Director of the School | ||
| Mrs. Brown | ||
| Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant | ||
| 1912 | Mrs. Sharpe | |
| Madame Legrand | ||
| Mary McGregor, His Wife | ||
| Miss Amanda De Rosville | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mrs Wozenham | ||
| Factory Worker | ||
| Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary | ||
| Mrs. Spink | ||
| Markham's African Sister | ||
| A Suffragette | ||
| Miss Susan - a Spinster | ||
| N/A | ||
| The Governess | ||
| Mrs. Bunce | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Mme. Frangiapani | ||
| The Chosen Stenographer | ||
| Helen's Step-Mother | ||
| 1911 | The Governess | |
| Headmistress of the School | ||
| Patience | ||
| Mrs. Nag | ||
| Mrs. Maggie Gallagher | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1910 | Uplifter | |
| 1909 | The Mother | |
| N/A | ||
| The Lady Book Agent | ||
| Actress on Stage | ||
| Woman with largest hat | ||
| Guest | ||
| 1908 | Mrs. Harcourt | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
