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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 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).
Movies
The Women
1939-09-01
Stablemates
1938-10-07
A Night at the Movies
1937-11-06
Way Out West
1937-04-16
Mama Steps Out
1937-02-05
Postal Inspector
1936-08-16
Women Are Trouble
1936-07-31
Show Boat
1936-05-17
The Scarlet Letter
1934-09-18
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
1930-09-05
The Matrimonial Bed
1930-08-01
Say It with Songs
1929-08-05
Come Across
1929-06-30
The Faker
1929-01-02
The Haunted House
1928-11-04
Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928-05-26
Quality Street
1927-11-01
Rose of the Golden West
1927-09-25
The Cat and the Canary
1927-08-20
Captain Salvation
1927-05-14
'Morning, Judge
1926-09-01
The Brown Derby
1926-07-04
Fifth Avenue
1926-01-24
Lover's Island
1925-12-30
A Kiss for Cinderella
1925-12-22
The Live Wire
1925-09-20
The Wrongdoers
1925-09-03
The Adventurous Sex
1925-06-12
Men and Women
1925-03-23
The Midnight Girl
1925-02-14
Monsieur Beaucaire
1924-08-11
Roulette
1924-01-19
Luck
1923-03-01
Man Wanted
1922-10-13
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922-09-15
Orphans of the Storm
1921-12-28
Lessons in Love
1921-05-01
Oh Boy!
1919-06-22
The Great Adventure
1918-03-10
Prudence the Pirate
1916-10-21
A Night Out
1916-01-31
Heavy Villains
1915-08-14
The Lady of Shalott
1915-03-26
War
1915-01-23
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915-01-08
Sweeney's Christmas Bird
1914-12-25
Fixing Their Dads
1914-11-18
Bunny Backslides
1914-10-30
Hearts and Diamonds
1914-09-25
Polishing Up
1914-08-14
The Locked House
1914-08-07
The Vases of Hymen
1914-07-10
A Train of Incidents
1914-07-03
The Old Maid's Baby
1914-06-26
Father's Flirtation
1914-06-20
Mr. Bunny in Disguise
1914-05-07
Tangled Tangoists
1914-04-23
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914-02-27
Love's Old Dream
1914-01-21
Father's Hatband
1913-10-29
The Feudists
1913-08-23
Those Troublesome Tresses
1913-08-18
The Pickpocket
1913-07-21
Bunny's Dilemma
1913-06-19
A Lady and Her Maid
1913-05-21
Vampire of the Desert
1913-05-16
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
1913-04-09
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
1913-02-22
Stenographer Troubles
1913-02-06
The Classmate's Frolic
1913-02-04
The Little Minister
1913-01-13
Three Black Bags
1913-01-13
When the Press Speaks
1913-01-01
A Cure for Pokeritis
1912-12-31
Freckles
1912-12-26
The Unusual Honeymoon
1912-12-18
The Hand Bag
1912-11-09
An Elephant on Their Hands
1912-10-15
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912-10-15
She Cried
1912-10-02
A Vitagraph Romance
1912-09-17
Bunny's Suicide
1912-09-05
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
1912-09-04
Saving an Audience
1912-08-23
Suing Susan
1912-08-09
The Foster Child
1912-07-12
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
1912-07-06
Diamond Cut Diamond
1912-05-23
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
1912-03-23
The Old Silver Watch
1912-03-19
Irene's Infatuation
1912-03-06
Stenographer Wanted
1912-02-26
The First Violin
1912-02-02
In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911-12-30
Her Crowning Glory
1911-09-11
The Strategy of Ann
1911-07-29
Treasure Trove
1911-07-25
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911-07-14
Two Overcoats
1911-06-24
The Sleep Walker
1911-06-23
The Wooing of Winifred
1911-04-11
The New Stenographer
1911-02-18
In Northern Forests
1911-01-01
Muggsy's First Sweetheart
1910-06-30
The Way of Man
1909-06-28
What Drink Did
1909-06-02
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909-05-10
A Wreath in Time
1909-02-08
Those Awful Hats
1909-01-25
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909-01-21
The Helping Hand
1908-12-29
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