Helen Lynch
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Helen Lynch | |
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Born | |
Died | March 2, 1965 Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. | (aged 64)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Carroll Nye |
Helen Lynch (April 6, 1900 – March 2, 1965) was an American silent film actress, mainly known for her roles playing gun molls and other morally dubious characters.[1]
Biography[]
Lynch was born in 1900 in Billings, Montana, where she was also raised.[2] When she was one year old, her father died, and Lynch was raised along with her sister, Agnes, by their mother, Christian Fraser.[2]:77 When she was 9 years old, the family relocated to Hollywood, California, which at the time was a small suburb of Los Angeles situated amongst orchards.[2]:77-78
After working as a film extra, Lynch was chosen as one of thirteen WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1923.[1][2]:77 During her career, she was mostly cast in comedies, and often portrayed gun molls and other controversial female characters.[1]
She acted in a number of films throughout the 1920s and four small roles in the 1930s. It appears she returned one last time to the screen in the 1940 film Women Without Names.
She was married to actor Carroll Nye.
Lynch died in 1965 in Miami Beach, Florida.[2]:79
Partial filmography[]
- What's a Wife Worth? (1921)
- Live and Let Live (1921)
- Midnight (1922)
- Minnie (1922)
- Glass Houses (1922)
- The Eternal Three (1923)
- Cause for Divorce (1923)
- The Dangerous Age (1923)
- The Meanest Man in the World (1923)
- The Tomboy (1924)
- On Probation (1924)
- Oh Doctor! (1925)
- Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
- Fifth Avenue Models (1925)
- Return of Grey Wolf (1926)
- The Arizona Sweepstakes (1926)
- Tom and His Pals (1926)
- General Custer at the Little Big Horn (1927)
- Underworld (1927)
- Avenging Fangs (1927)
- Love and Learn (1928)
- The Showdown (1928)
- The Singing Fool (1928)
- Thundergod (1928)
- Stolen Love (1928)
- Speakeasy (1929)
- Women Without Names (1940)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Wollstein, Hans J. "Helen Lynch Biography". AllMovie. Archived from the original on June 11, 2020.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e D'Ambrosio, Brian (July 8, 2019). Montana Entertainers: Famous and Almost Forgotten. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 77–79. ISBN 978-1-4396-6733-0. Retrieved January 9, 2021.
External links[]
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- Helen Lynch at IMDb
- American film actresses
- American silent film actresses
- 1900 births
- 1965 deaths
- People from Billings, Montana
- Actresses from Montana
- 20th-century American actresses
- WAMPAS Baby Stars