Helen Burnell was born on 14 November 1908 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Elstree Calling (1930). She died on 15 December 2001 in Pelham, Westchester County, New York, USA.
She acted in Ronald Jeans and Douglas Furber's revue, "R.S.V.P," at the Adelphi Theatre in London, England with Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Irene Russell, Bobbie Comber, Robert Naylor, and Ivor McClaren. Ivor Novello, Vivian Ellis, and Arthur Schwartz were also writers.