Bunny Timeline
1863 September 21 John Bunny is born.
1869 Bunny's co-star, Flora Finch is born in England.
1870 George, a brother is born.
1883 Started working in a minstrel show.
1890 Married Clara Scallen
1893 First son, George Bunny is born.
1897-1898 Manager of Grand Opera House, Salt Lake City
1898-1905 Stage Manager William Brady Productions
1905 - 1908 Appeared in various stage roles.
1909-1910 October (?) Appeared with Lew Fields in Old
Dutch
1910 Bunny approaches Vitagraph and starts to make films.
1912 May 12 Bunny and Larry Trimble go to England where fans mobbed him. He also makes six films and parts of Pickwick Papers
1912 September 21 Returned to New York. Curious to note that he returned on his 49th Birthday.
1913 Bunny gets a new contract with Vitagraph for $1,000/week.
1914 Bunny leaves Vitagraph and stars in his own stage show Bunny in Funnyland
1915 After a return to Vitagraph, Bunny starts the John Bunny Show at the Bronx Opera House.***
1915 Feb. Bunny's last film with Vitagraph, How Cissy Made Good is released.
1915 May 1 Motion Picture World announces that John Bunny was seriously ill at his home. (Published after his death.)
1915 April 26 Bunny dies at his home at 1416
Glenwood Avenue at the age of 52.
April 28 Funeral is held at the Elks Club House, West 43rd Street
1940 Jan. 4 Flora Finch dies of a streptococcus infection. (Los Angeles)
1952 April 16 John's Brother, George dies on a Heart Attack in Hollywood.
1958 Dec. 8 John's son, George dies in an apartment house fire in Hollywood.
1971 John Bunny Jr. Dies
*** One of the few descendants of Bunny that I have talked to mentioned that his grandfather always told the story about how he went to the Opera House and got to sit on Bunny's lap.
