Max Linder
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
129
Gender
Male
Birthday
1883-12-16
Day of death
1925-11-01 (41 years old)
Place of Birth
Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Max Linder
Biography
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.
Known For
The False Max Linder
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
Seven Years Bad Luck
Max Learns to Skate
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Easter Parade
Harlequin's Story
Max Hates Cats
Max and His Mother-in-Law
Max Plays at Drama
All in Good Fun
The Three Must-Get-Theres
King of the Circus
Birth of the Tramp
Max's First Job
Max se marie
Be My Wife
Love's Surprises
Max Skiing
Max manque un riche mariage
Max as a Chiropodist
Au secours !
Max Takes Tonics
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Max's Vacation
Max émule de Tartarin
Le Petit Café
Max and the Lady Doctor
An Unexpected Marriage
The Dentures
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Cordial Agreement
Max Linder's Appointment
Max and the Purse
Max Wants a Divorce
In a Difficult Position
Max Takes a Bath
The Man in the Silk Hat
Noisy Neighbors
Romeo Turns Bandit
Laugh with Max Linder
The Forced Marriage
Max in the Convent
Max in a Taxi
Champion de boxe
Max Takes a Picture
A Conquest
Max Sets the Style
A Short-Sighted Duellist
First Night Out
Max Comes Across
The Water-Funker
Max Is Convalescent
The Wedding Trunk
His First Cigar
Attempted Suicide
Max Plays the Part
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Max and the Donkey
Max's Latest Hobby
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
Max amoureux de la teinturière
At the Show
An Agitated Night
The Barometer of Fidelity
I Want a Baby
Max Juggles for Love
Max Sets the Fashion
Chance and Love
Max Makes a Touch
Troubles of a Grass Widower
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Max asthmatique
Max the Heartbreaker
Max Embarrassed
Max Linder Does All the Sports
Les Étudiants de Paris
Max Speaks English
Hairdresser of Love
Trop aimée
Max, Tango Teacher
Max Wants to Grow
King of Cinema
Une ruse de mari
Max and the Statue
Joined Lips
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Max as a Musician
Max: Jockey for Love
The Gentleman Thief
Max: Boxer By Love
Max Toreador
In Love with the Bearded Woman
The Way of the World
Max and His Dog Dick
The Little Vixen
Long-Lasting Love
The Husband's Trick
Max a un duel
Max est distrait
Max Wishes He Hadn't
A Farmhouse Romance
Max and the Jealous Husband
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Max's Hat
Max Fears the Dogs
Max Gets Stuck Up
The Romance of Max
For a Necklace
Max, médecin malgré lui
Max devrait porter des bretelles
Phial of Poison
Chaussure trop étroite
Un pari original
Le duel de Max
Those Were The Days
Le serment d'un prince
Max in Monaco
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
Max Takes Back His Freedom
The Effects of Pills
Le billet doux
Julot va dans le monde
Jalousie
Unforeseen Meeting
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
