Flora Finch

Flora Finch (June 17 1867, London – January 4 1940, Los Angeles) was an English-born film actress who starred in over 300 silent films, including over 200 for the Vitagraph Studios film company.

Early life and career
She was born into a music-hall and traveling theatrical family in London and was brought over to the states as a young child. She kept up the family tradition and worked in theater and 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, Mabel Normand, Mack Sennett (with whom she was romantically involved for a short time), and Charlie Chaplin among others.

Starting in 1911 at Vitagraph, she was paired with John Bunny in wildly popular short comedies (called by the public Bunnyfinches). Her first film there was Mrs. Jones Entertains (1909). After making nine more films she began appearing with rotund comic John Bunny, and together they made 260 shorts between 1910 and 1915, which were known as Bunnygraphs, Bunnyfinches, and Bunnyfinchgraphs. They became the cinema's first popular comedy team. Among their more popular titles were The New Stenographer (1911), The Subduing of Mrs. Nag (1911) and A Cure for Pokeritis (1912).

She made other films on her own in addition to those she made with Bunny, and after he died in 1915 she began her own series of comedy shorts, although not meeting with the kind of success she had with Bunny. By the time the sound era began she was relegated to minor supporting roles and bit parts, although she did have a fairly decent role in The Scarlet Letter (1934) with Colleen Moore, as one of the self-righteous women in Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of life in colonial America. Unfortunately most of her films (especially the silents) have been lost over the years.

She started her own production company, Flora Finch Productions, after Bunny died in 1915, but was never able to regain her popularity.

Finch retired from acting after appearing in The Women (1939), ending a long and illustrious career. She died of rheumatic fever, brought on by a streptococcus infection, aged 72.

Husband
She was married to Harold March (dates unknown); apparently they had no children.