A member of the Thanhouser stock company in 1911, Flora Foster played the part of David Copperfield in The Early Life of David Copperfield. She was with the Thanhouser studio through at least early 1913.
Flora Foster
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch Flora FosterOpens David Copperfield (1911)
Biography
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 104 words.
Flora Foster was born in Boston. Later, her father, C. Foster, was proprietor of the Lexington Theatre in Chicago. Under the name of “Billy Foster,” she was with Biograph for five years. She and her sister Edna (who was born in 1900) were known as The Biograph Kids. Flora Foster died of heart failure at the age of 16, on September 16, 1914, at her fathers home in Chicago.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “FOSTER, Flora.” thanhouser.org/research/people/flora-foster/