Helen Lindroth | |
Birth Date: | 3 December 1874 |
Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts |
Occupation: | Actress |
Helen Lindroth (December 3, 1874 – October 5, 1956) was a Swedish-born American screen and stage actress.
Lindroth acted on stage with the Boston Museum Stock Company[1] and in New York City before entering motion pictures with the Kalem Company and Famous Players. Her Broadway credits include The Nest Egg (1910), The Call of the Cricket (1910), and Springtime (1909).[2]
In 1911, Lindroth made a one-reel film for Kalem.[3] She performed in the film adaptation of The Swan (1925) and in The Song and Dance Man (1926), produced by George M. Cohan.
Lindroth has 96 screen credits beginning with a role in the Battle of Pottsburg Bridge in 1912. Some other films in which she performed are A Battle of Wits (1912), The Menace of Fate (1914), The Black Crook (1916), Shadows of Suspicion (1919), The Way of a Maid (1921), Unguarded Women (1924), and The Song and Dance Man (1926).
Lindroth teamed with Emma Dunn in an act that headlined vaudeville shows on the Orpheum Circuit.
Lindroth gave up acting around 1936 and became associated with the Christian Science Benevolent Association in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. She retired from this philanthropic work in 1953.
On October 5, 1956, Lindroth died in Boston, Massachusetts at age 82.[4]