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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).
Filmography
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Movies 109
Director 1
The Women (1939)
Stablemates (1938)
A Night at the Movies (1937)
Way Out West (1937)
Mama Steps Out (1937)
Women Are Trouble (1936)
Show Boat (1936)
The Scarlet Letter (1934)
Sweet Kitty Bellairs (1930)
The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Say It with Songs (1929)
Come Across (1929)
The Faker (1929)
The Haunted House (1928)
Quality Street (1927)
Rose of the Golden West (1927)
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Captain Salvation (1927)
'Morning, Judge (1926)
The Brown Derby (1926)
Fifth Avenue (1926)
A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
The Live Wire (1925)
The Wrongdoers (1925)
The Adventurous Sex (1925)
Men and Women (1925)
The Midnight Girl (1925)
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
Roulette (1924)
Luck (1923)
Man Wanted (1922)
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Lessons in Love (1921)
Salome (1921)
Birthright (1920)
Oh Boy! (1919)
The Great Adventure (1918)
Prudence the Pirate (1916)
A Night Out (1916)
The Lady of Shalott (1915)
The Smoking Out of Bella Butts (1915)
Fixing Their Dads (1914)
Bunny Backslides (1914)
Hearts and Diamonds (1914)
Polishing Up (1914)
A Train of Incidents (1914)
Mr. Bunny in Disguise (1914)
Tangled Tangoists (1914)
Love's Old Dream (1914)
Father's Hatband (1913)
The Feudists (1913)
Those Troublesome Tresses (1913)
The Pickpocket (1913)
Bunny's Dilemma (1913)
A Lady and Her Maid (1913)
Bunny's Birthday Surprise (1913)
Vampire of the Desert (1913)
Cutey and the Chorus Girls (1913)
The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty (1913)
Stenographer Troubles (1913)
The Classmate's Frolic (1913)
When Mary Grew Up (1913)
Three Black Bags (1913)
The Little Minister (1913)
A Cure for Pokeritis (1912)
Freckles (1912)
The Unusual Honeymoon (1912)
Doctor Bridget (1912)
The Hand Bag (1912)
Bunny All at Sea (1912)
Mrs Lirriper’s Lodgers (1912)
An Elephant on Their Hands (1912)
She Cried (1912)
A Vitagraph Romance (1912)
Bunny's Suicide (1912)
Captain Barnacle's Legacy (1912)
Saving an Audience (1912)
Suing Susan (1912)
The Foster Child (1912)
The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912)
Pandora’s Box (1912)
Diamond Cut Diamond (1912)
Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes (1912)
The Old Silver Watch (1912)
Irene's Infatuation (1912)
Stenographer Wanted (1912)
The First Violin (1912)
Her Crowning Glory (1911)
The Strategy of Ann (1911)
Treasure Trove (1911)
The Subduing of Mrs. Nag (1911)
Two Overcoats (1911)
The Sleep Walker (1911)
The Wooing of Winifred (1911)
In Northern Forests (1911)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1910)
Muggsy's First Sweetheart (1910)
All on Account of the Milk (1910)
The Way of Man (1909)
Her First Biscuits (1909)
What Drink Did (1909)
Jones and the Lady Book Agent (1909)
His Wife's Mother (1909)
A Wreath in Time (1909)
Those Awful Hats (1909)
Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909)
Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909)
The Helping Hand (1908)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1867-06-17
Deathday1940-01-04 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsFlora Brooks
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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