Gladys Brockwell (née Lindeman; September 26, 1894[1] – July 2, 1929) was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era.

[3] Her mother, Lillian Lindeman (née Voltaire), a chorus girl turned actress, put her daughter on stage at an early age.

Developing her craft, she moved to Hollywood where she garnered a role in the acclaimed 1922 version of Oliver Twist and in The Hunchback of Notre Dame the following year.

Regarded as one of the finest character actresses of the day who not only adapted to sound films but excelled in them, her first appearance in a "talkie" came in 1928 in Lights of New York.

A Warner Bros. feature-length production, Lights of New York was filmed with microphones strategically hidden around the sets, creating the first motion picture released with fully synchronic dialogue.

[4]: 9 Brockwell died in Hollywood Hospital[7] in Los Angeles on July 2, 1929, of peritonitis that resulted from internal injuries from an automobile accident.

Brockwell's final film, The Drake Case, was directed by Edward Laemmle while she was on loan to Universal Pictures, and was released posthumously in September 1929.