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Flora Finch
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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, i…
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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).
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1939
The Women
Movie Woman Window Tapper (uncredited)
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1938
Stablemates
Movie Singer at Beulah's
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1937
A Night at the Movies
Movie Movie Patron (uncredited)
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1937
Way Out West
Movie Maw (uncredited)
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1937
Mama Steps Out
Movie Old Maid in Hall
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1936
Postal Inspector
Movie The Ugly Fraud (uncredited)
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1936
Women Are Trouble
Movie Society Woman
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1936
Show Boat
Movie
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1934
The Scarlet Letter
Movie Faith Bartle, the Gossip
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1930
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
Movie Gossip
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1930
The Matrimonial Bed
Movie Vosin
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1929
Say It with Songs
Movie Radio station beauty expert
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1929
Come Across
Movie Cassie
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1929
The Faker
Movie Emma
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1928
The Haunted House
Movie Mrs.Rackham
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1928
Five and Ten Cent Annie
Movie Wedding Guest
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1928
The Wife's Relations
Movie Mrs. Cyrus Dodd
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1927
Quality Street
Movie Mary Willoughby
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1927
Rose of the Golden West
Movie Señora Comba
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1927
The Cat and the Canary
Movie Susan
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1927
Captain Salvation
Movie Mrs. Snifty
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1927
Are Brunettes Safe?
Movie School Teacher (uncredited)
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1927
Her Indiscretion
Movie
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1926
'Morning, Judge
Movie The Judge's Wife
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1926
The Brown Derby
Movie Aunt Anna
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1926
Fifth Avenue
Movie Mrs. Pettygrew
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1925
Lover's Island
Movie Amanda Dawson
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1925
A Kiss for Cinderella
Movie Second Customer
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1925
His Buddy's Wife
Movie Mirandy
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1925
The Live Wire
Movie Pansy Darwin
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1925
The Wrongdoers
Movie Society Woman
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1925
The Adventurous Sex
Movie The Grandmother
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1925
Men and Women
Movie Kate
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1925
The Midnight Girl
Movie Landlady
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1924
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie Duchesse de Montmorency
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1924
Roulette
Movie Mrs. Smith-Jones
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1923
Luck
Movie The Plumber's Best Girl
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1922
A Social Error
Movie
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1922
Man Wanted
Movie
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1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Movie French Countess (uncredited)
