Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 16, 1883
Died
Nov 01, 1925
Place of Birth
Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Credits
130 titles
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
Filmography
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
The Man in the Silk Hat
Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Laugh with Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
Easter Parade
Audience Member (uncredited)
The Way of the World
(Archive Footage)
Those Were The Days
(self)
Charlie the Innkeeper
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
(archive footage)
Maxim's Porter
Writer
Au secours !
Max
King of the Circus
Max Graf von Pompadour
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Self
Par habitude
Story
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Dart-In-Again
Be My Wife
Max, the Fiancé
Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
Le Petit Café
Max, médecin malgré lui
Max
Max the Heartbreaker
Max in a Taxi
Himself
Max Wants a Divorce
Max
Max Comes Across
Max
Max and the Purse
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Self
Max devrait porter des bretelles
Max
Chance and Love
Max
Hairdresser of Love
Max in Monaco
The False Max Linder
Max
Max asthmatique
Max
Max in the Convent
The Forced Marriage
Max Plays at Drama
Max and the Lady Doctor
Max
Max Plays the Part
Max as a Chiropodist
Max
Max Wishes He Hadn't
Max and the Jealous Husband
Max
Max Speaks English
Max
Max Sets the Style
Max
Max's Latest Hobby
Max's Vacation
Max
Max as a Musician
Max
An Unexpected Marriage