Acting · London · Born June 16, 1867
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).
MovieThe Women
1939
as Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
MovieStablemates
1938
as Singer at Beulah's
MovieA Night at the Movies
1937
as Movie Patron (uncredited)
MovieWay Out West
1937
as Maw (uncredited)
MovieMama Steps Out
1937
as Old Maid in Hall
MoviePostal Inspector
1936
as The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
MovieWomen Are Trouble
1936
as Society Woman
MovieShow Boat
1936
MovieThe Scarlet Letter
1934
as Faith Bartle, the Gossip
MovieSweet Kitty Bellairs
1930
as Gossip
MovieThe Matrimonial Bed
1930
as Vosin
MovieSay It with Songs
1929
as Radio station beauty expert
MovieCome Across
1929
as Cassie
MovieThe Faker
1929
as Emma
MovieThe Haunted House
1928
as Mrs.Rackham
MovieFive and Ten Cent Annie
1928
as Wedding Guest
MovieThe Wife's Relations
1928
as Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
MovieQuality Street
1927
as Mary Willoughby
MovieRose of the Golden West
1927
as Señora Comba
MovieThe Cat and the Canary
1927
as Susan
MovieCaptain Salvation
1927
as Mrs. Snifty
MovieAre Brunettes Safe?
1927
as School Teacher (uncredited)
Her Indiscretion
1927
Movie'Morning, Judge
1926
as The Judge's Wife
MovieThe Brown Derby
1926
as Aunt Anna
MovieFifth Avenue
1926
as Mrs. Pettygrew
Lover's Island
1925
as Amanda Dawson
MovieA Kiss for Cinderella
1925
as Second Customer
MovieHis Buddy's Wife
1925
as Mirandy
MovieThe Live Wire
1925
as Pansy Darwin
MovieThe Wrongdoers
1925
as Society Woman
MovieThe Adventurous Sex
1925
as The Grandmother
MovieMen and Women
1925
as Kate
MovieThe Midnight Girl
1925
as Landlady
MovieMonsieur Beaucaire
1924
as Duchesse de Montmorency
MovieRoulette
1924
as Mrs. Smith-Jones
MovieLuck
1923
as The Plumber's Best Girl
MovieMan Wanted
1922
MovieWhen Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
as French Countess (uncredited)
MovieOrphans of the Storm
1921
as A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
MovieLessons in Love
1921
as Agatha Calthorpe
MovieBirthright
1920
MovieDawn
1919
as Mrs. Natalie Colebrook
MovieOh Boy!
1919
as Miss Penelope Budd
MovieThe Great Adventure
1918
as Rags's Aunt
MoviePrudence the Pirate
1916
as The Aunt
MovieA Night Out
1916
as Mrs. Marie Haslem
Heavy Villains
1915
as Serena Slim - The Slender Sleuth
The Lady of Shalott
1915
as Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
War
1915
as Frau Schultz
MovieThe Smoking Out of Bella Butts
1915
as Bella Butts
MovieSweeney's Christmas Bird
1914
as Mrs. Sweeney
Fixing Their Dads
1914
as The Widow Hathaway
MovieBunny Backslides
1914
as Flora Winslow - a Widow
MovieHearts and Diamonds
1914
as Miss Rachel Whipple
MoviePolishing Up
1914
as Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
The Locked House
1914
as Mrs. Bunny
The Vases of Hymen
1914
as Annette Kershaw
A Train of Incidents
1914
as Miss Prim
The Old Maid's Baby
1914
as Flora the Old Maid
MovieFather's Flirtation
1914
as Mrs. Bunny
MovieMr. Bunny in Disguise
1914
as Euphemia Jones
MovieTangled Tangoists
1914
A Change in Baggage Checks
1914
as Stella Triplight
Love's Old Dream
1914
as Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
The Golf Game and the Bonnet
1913
as Flora - The Wife
MovieFather's Hatband
1913
as Mrs. Henpecko
The Autocrat of Flapjack Junction
1913
as Edith - The Widow
MovieThe Feudists
1913
as Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
MovieThose Troublesome Tresses
1913
as Mrs. Jones
MovieThe Pickpocket
1913
as Patrick's Suffragette Wife
MovieBunny's Dilemma
1913
as Aunt Eliza
MovieA Lady and Her Maid
1913
MovieVampire of the Desert
1913
as Hagar
Disciplining Daisy
1913
Cutey and the Chorus Girls
1913
as Flora Scrawny
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty
1913
as Mrs. Evelyn Jones
Stenographer Troubles
1913
as A Typist
The Classmate's Frolic
1913
as The Director of the School
When Mary Grew Up
1913
MovieThe Little Minister
1913
as Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
Three Black Bags
1913
as Mrs. Brown
When the Press Speaks
1913
as Bealla Wilfax
MovieA Cure for Pokeritis
1912
as Mrs. Sharpe
MovieFreckles
1912
as Madame Legrand
MovieThe Unusual Honeymoon
1912
as Mary McGregor, His Wife
The Hand Bag
1912
as Miss Amanda De Rosville
An Elephant on Their Hands
1912
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers
1912
as Mrs Wozenham
She Cried
1912
as Factory Worker
MovieA Vitagraph Romance
1912
as Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
Bunny's Suicide
1912
as Mrs. Spink
Captain Barnacle's Legacy
1912
as Markham's African Sister
Saving an Audience
1912
as A Suffragette
Suing Susan
1912
as Miss Susan - a Spinster
The Foster Child
1912
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
1912
as The Governess
MovieDiamond Cut Diamond
1912
as Mrs. Bunce
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes
1912
The Old Silver Watch
1912
Irene's Infatuation
1912
as Mme. Frangiapani
Stenographer Wanted
1912
as The Chosen Stenographer
MovieThe First Violin
1912
as Helen's Step-Mother
MovieIn the Clutches of a Vapor Bath
1911
as Mrs. Bunny
MovieHer Crowning Glory
1911
as The Governess
The Strategy of Ann
1911
as Headmistress of the School
Treasure Trove
1911
as Patience
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag
1911
as Mrs. Nag
Two Overcoats
1911
as Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
The Sleep Walker
1911
The Wooing of Winifred
1911
MovieThe New Stenographer
1911
as Lucille Montgomery
MovieIn Northern Forests
1911
The Troublesome Baby
1910
as Mrs. Samuels
MovieMuggsy's First Sweetheart
1910
as Uplifter
MovieThe Way of Man
1909
as The Mother
MovieHer First Biscuits
1909
MovieWhat Drink Did
1909
Jones and the Lady Book Agent
1909
as The Lady Book Agent
A Wreath in Time
1909
as Actress on Stage
MovieThose Awful Hats
1909
as Woman with largest hat
MovieMr. Jones Has a Card Party
1909
as Guest
Mrs. Jones Entertains
1909
as Leader of the Temperance League
The Helping Hand
1908
as Mrs. Harcourt
