Eric Linden: Eric Linden. Actor: Gone with the Wind. Fair-haired, youthfully handsome Swedish-American actor Eric Linden, who enjoyed pre-Code, Depression-era Hollywood stardom in boyish leads, was discovered for films by director Wesley Ruggles when Ruggles cast the New York-based actor in a lead role in the film Are These Our Children (1931).
Born in New York City, his Swedish father, Philip Linden, was an actor with Stockholm's Royal Theatre who migrated to America,...
