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Eric Linden, Eric Linden (September 15, 1909 – July 14, 1994) was an American actor. He began his film career in 1931, appearing in over 30 movies, including a minor role in Gone with the Wind.[edit] BiographyEric Linden was born in New York City to Phillip Linden and Elvira Lundborg, both of Swedish descent. His father was a professional pianist and an actor on stage with the Theater Royal when he lived in Stockholm, Sweden.When Eric was six, Phillip Linden deserted his family in New York City. To help support his family, he sold newspapers on Tenth Avenue. Linden participated in school plays at DeWitt Clinton High School. After graduation, he worked his way through Columbia University.He starred in his debut in the 1931 RKO Radio Pictures crime film Are These Our Children?. Other films included Big City Blues (1932), costarring with Joan Blondell, Ah, Wilderness! (1935), The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936), Old Hutch (1936), opposite Wallace Beery, A Family Affair (1937), the first Andy Hardy movie, and The Good Old Soak (1937), again with Beery.However, his career petered out and he left Hollywood after his final film, Criminals Within (1943). Eric Linden died in South Laguna Beach, California, aged 84.[edit] External linksEric Linden at the Internet Movie DatabaseEric Linden at the Internet Broadway DatabaseEric Linden at Find a GraveEric Linden at AllmovieEric Linden: Too Much YouthPersondataNameLinden, EricAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birthSeptember 15, 1909Place of birthDate of deathJuly 14, 1994Place of deathThis article about a United States film actor or actress born in the 1900s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_LindenCategories: 1909 births | 1994 deaths | People from New York City | American film actors | American people of Swedish descent | Columbia University alumni | American film actor, 1900s birth stubsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable version This page was last modified on 12 February 2011 at 06:18.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();