Flora Finch was born in London, England, on June 17, 1867. After spending time on the legitimate stage, she began to make films, and was one of the early comedy stars of the silent-film era. Her first film was _Mrs. Jones Entertains , ending a long and illustrious career. On January 4, 1940, she died of rheumatic fever, brought on by a streptococcus infection, in Los Angeles, California. She was 70 years old.
Made 260 shorts with John Bunny between 1910 and 1915, which were known as Bunnygraphs, Bunnyfinches, and Bunnyfinchgraphs.
Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California - Section 2, #416
Although she and John Bunny made more than 250 comedy shorts together for Vitagraph, studio chief Albert E. Smith recalled that "they cordially hated each other".
She played the vaudeville stage in New York from at least 1901. Most of her pictures were made in New York and New Jersey; she first came to California in 1926.
In 1917, she became one of the first stars to form an eponymous production company -- The Flora Finch Film Corporation. She placed advertisements in film industry trade publications announcing her new company with this screaming banner: "FLORA FINCH!! IN ALL HER SCRAWNY, SKINNY MAJESTY!" The ad included a photograph of her head pasted onto an artists rendering of her body, which included pipe-cleaner-like arms and legs, and a neck that was twice as long as her real neck. (According to the ad copy, the offices for her company were located at 729 7th Avenue, New York.).
[in 1925] I have never in all my days had a pie thrown at me, and that,in itself is a distinction few actors in old comedies can claim. .
