Death
English actress Stephanie Insall and Finlayson regularly took breakfast together and had for the past 20 years. However, on the morning of 9 October 1953, Finlayson did not turn up at the usual time. Knowing that he had been ill from flu recently, Miss Insall went to his home on North Beachwood Drive, Los Angeles, California, where she discovered his body. Finlayson had died of a heart attack. He was 66 years old.
His funeral rites were held at the same Masonic Chapel as Oliver Hardy's. Mack Sennett, Billy Bevan, Hank Mann and Snub Pollard attended the service.
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