Flora Finch

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).

Dettaglio della persona

Pagina iniziale

Dettaglio della persona

Flora Finch

Filmografia

The Scarlet Letter

La canzone di Magnolia

The Feudists

Treasure Trove

The Sleep Walker

The Wooing of Winifred

The Old Silver Watch

Vampire of the Desert

The Haunted House

Love's Old Dream

A Night Out

Luck

A Cure for Pokeritis

Those Awful Hats

The Wrongdoers

What Drink Did

Her Crowning Glory

The Troublesome Step-Daughters

Captain Barnacle's Legacy

Roulette

The Strategy of Ann

Hearts and Diamonds

The First Violin

Her Forgotten Dancing Shoes

Saving an Audience

A Lady and Her Maid

The Pickpocket

The Foster Child

Irene's Infatuation

The Little Minister

Captain Salvation

The Matrimonial Bed

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

Muggsy's First Sweetheart

Men and Women

The Faker

Le due orfanelle

The Brown Derby

The Live Wire

Il castello degli spettri

Polishing Up

A Kiss for Cinderella

When Knighthood Was in Flower

A Night at the Movies

I fanciulli del West (Allegri vagabondi)

Mama Steps Out

Women Are Trouble

Donne

An Elephant on Their Hands

Bunny Backslides

Tangled Tangoists

Say It with Songs

Quality Street

The Midnight Girl

In the Clutches of a Vapor Bath

Postal Inspector

Sweeney's Christmas Bird

The New Stenographer

Father's Hatband

Five and Ten Cent Annie

The Way of Man

A Vitagraph Romance

The Classmate's Frolic

Diamond Cut Diamond

Those Troublesome Tresses

Stenographer Troubles

Cutey and the Chorus Girls

When the Press Speaks

The Locket; or, When She Was Twenty

The Helping Hand

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party

Bunny's Suicide

Freckles

The Hand Bag

She Cried