Birth Day: 1867-06-16
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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).
Credits
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As Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
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As Singer at Beulah's
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As Movie Patron (uncredited)
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As Maw (uncredited)
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As Old Maid in Hall
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As The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
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As Society Woman
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As Faith Bartle, the Gossip
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As Gossip
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As Vosin
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As Cassie
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As Emma
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As Radio station beauty expert
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As Mrs.Rackham
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As Wedding Guest
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As Mrs. Snifty
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As Señora Comba
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As Susan
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As Mary Willoughby
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As Mrs. Pettygrew
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As Aunt Anna
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As The Judge's Wife
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As Amanda Dawson
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As Landlady
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As Society Woman
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As Second Customer
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As Pansy Darwin
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As Kate
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As The Grandmother
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As Duchesse de Montmorency
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As Mrs. Smith-Jones
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As The Plumber's Best Girl
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As French Countess (uncredited)
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As Agatha Calthorpe
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As A Starving Peasant (uncredited)
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As Miss Penelope Budd
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As Rags's Aunt
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As The Aunt
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As Mrs. Marie Haslem
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As Bella Butts
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As Ivy Skinner - the Lady of Shalott
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As Flora Winslow - a Widow
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As Miranda, Simon's Sweetheart
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As Mrs. Sweeney
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As Miss Prim
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As Mrs. John Bunny, alias Vivian Astor
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As Miss Rachel Whipple
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As Euphemia Jones
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As The Widow Hathaway
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As Second Wife, Mrs. Craig
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As Mrs. Brown
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As Aunt Eliza
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As Mrs. Evelyn Jones
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As Bealla Wilfax
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As A Typist
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As Flora Scrawny
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As Mrs. Jones
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As The Director of the School
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As Patrick's Suffragette Wife
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As Mrs. Henpecko
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As Jeanne - the Dishart's Servant
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As Hagar
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As Principal of Miss Flint's Seminary
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As Mary McGregor, His Wife
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As Helen's Step-Mother
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As A Suffragette
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As Mme. Frangiapani
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As Markham's African Sister
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As Mrs Wozenham
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As The Governess
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As Mrs. Sharpe
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As The Chosen Stenographer
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As Miss Susan - a Spinster
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As Mrs. Bunce
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As Factory Worker
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As Miss Amanda De Rosville
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As Madame Legrand
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As Mrs. Spink
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As Patience
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As Mrs. Nag
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As Mrs. Maggie Gallagher
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As Lucille Montgomery
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As Headmistress of the School
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As Mrs. Bunny
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As The Governess
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As Uplifter
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As The Lady Book Agent
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As Guest
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As Actress on Stage
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As Woman with largest hat
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As The Mother
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As Mrs. Harcourt