Max Linder
Acting
Born 1883-12-16
Died 1925-11-01
Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
129 credits
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Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years, and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic style of silent slapstick comedy.
He started out as an actor in the French theatre, but after making his screen debut in 1905 he quickly became an enormously famous and successful film comedian on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to his character "Max", a top-hatted dandy. By 1912, he was the highest-paid film star in the world, with an unprecedented salary of one million francs. He began to direct films in 1911 and showed equal facility behind the camera, but his career suffered an almost terminal blow when he was called up to fight in World War I. He was gassed, and the illness that resulted would blight his career.
Although offered a contract in America, recurring ill-health meant that his US films had little of the sparkle of his early French work, and a brief attempt to revive his career by making films for the recently-formed United Artists (one of whose founders, of course, was Chaplin) in the early 1920s came to little, although these later films are now regarded as classics.
He returned to France and killed himself in a suicide pact with his wife in 1925.
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Filmography
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Acting
38 credits
Easter Parade
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Max Embarrassed
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Birth of the Tramp
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Max Juggles for Love
Max and His Mother-in-Law
The Way of the World
Max se marie
Max's First Job
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Max and His Dog Dick
All in Good Fun
Be My Wife
Seven Years Bad Luck
King of the Circus
Au secours !
Max Skiing
Max as a Musician
A Drama in Seaville
In a Difficult Position
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Chance and Love
Laugh with Max Linder
Max Takes Tonics
Max asthmatique
Max: Jockey for Love
Max and the Donkey
Max Takes a Bath
Max Learns to Skate
Max and the Lady Doctor
Max in a Taxi
Max émule de Tartarin
Long-Lasting Love
Max Comes Across
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Directing
30 credits
Max Embarrassed
An Agitated Night
Max Juggles for Love
Max and His Mother-in-Law
Max se marie
Max's First Job
The Forced Marriage
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Max and His Dog Dick
Be My Wife
Seven Years Bad Luck
Cordial Agreement
Max as a Musician
Love's Surprises
Chance and Love
Max Takes Tonics
Max Hates Cats
Max asthmatique
Max: Jockey for Love
Max and the Donkey
Max: Boxer By Love
Max and the Lady Doctor
Max the Heartbreaker
Max in a Taxi
Max in Monaco
I Want a Baby
Max émule de Tartarin
Long-Lasting Love
Max Toreador
Max Comes Across
Writing
18 credits
Le Petit Café
Maxim's Porter
Max and His Mother-in-Law
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Max and His Dog Dick
Par habitude
Be My Wife
Seven Years Bad Luck
King of the Circus
Au secours !
Cordial Agreement
Max as a Musician
Chance and Love
Laugh with Max Linder
Max and the Lady Doctor
I Want a Baby
Max Toreador
Max Comes Across
Other credits
9 credits
Charlie the Innkeeper
Max Makes a Touch
The Barometer of Fidelity
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Attempted Suicide
Troubles of a Grass Widower
First Night Out
Romeo Turns Bandit
Max Plays at Drama
Producing
2 credits
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