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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.
Eric 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, 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.
Fight Scene - Eric Linden
LIFE BEGINS (1932 Precode) Loretta Young & Eric Linden act up a storm!
Periodontist Dr. Eric Linden, D.M.D., M.S.D. TV Interview
Dr. Eric Linden: An Innovator and Teacher of Laser Dentistry
CRIMINALS WITHIN (1943) Eric Linden - Ben Alexander - Ann Doran
Eric Linden - Diving out of a moving car stunt
Emmy Submission Video - Eric Linden Stunt Coordinator
Emmy Submission Video - Eric Linden Stunt Coordinator 2015
Eric Linden - Stuntman on Fire
Eric Linden - Stuntman
Actors: Hugo Björne (actor), Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Åke Claesson (actor), Åke Engfeldt (actor), Georg Funkquist (actor), Alf Kjellin (actor), Erik Rosén (actor), Georg Rydeberg (actor), Hans Strååt (actor), Hilda Borgström (actress), Viveca Lindfors (actress), Hjördis Petterson (actress), Jules Sylvain (composer), Lennart Wallén (editor), Alva Lundin (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: When this 1944 Swedish film was released in the USA in 1946, actress Viveca Lindfors was working in Hollywood under contract to Warner Brothers. Parts of Beethoven's "Appassionata" sonata, as well as passages from his fifth and seventh symphonies recur frequently in the film, both as part of the music performed within the story, and as background music: In a jealous rage, a famous concert pianist attacks one of his wife's admirers, and is sent to prison. After serving his sentence he tells one of his pupils, in flashback, the story of he and his wife's love and marriage. He then learns that the pupil is in love with his wife. He makes a concert comeback and, then, does a very strange thing.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, assault, classical-music, comeback, concert, concert-pianist, flashback, husband-wife-relationship, jealous-rage