Max Linder
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- December 16, 1883
- Died
- November 1, 1925 (aged 41)
- Birthplace
- Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
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
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
Movie
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie · as archive footage
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Movie
Birth of the Tramp
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Man in the Silk Hat
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
TV · as Self (archive footage, uncredited) · 1 ep
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Laugh with Max Linder
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Él mismo (material de archivo)
All in Good Fun
Movie · as Archive Footage
The Way of the World
Movie · as (Archive Footage)
Those Were The Days
Movie · as (self)
Charlie the Innkeeper
Movie
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Movie · as (archive footage)
Au secours !
Movie · as Max
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Movie · as Self
King of the Circus
Movie · as Max Graf von Pompadour
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Movie · as Dart-In-Again
Seven Years Bad Luck
Movie · as Max
Be My Wife
Movie · as Max, the Fiancé
Le Petit Café
Movie
Max in a Taxi
Movie · as Himself
Max Wants a Divorce
Movie · as Max
Max the Heartbreaker
Movie
Max and the Purse
Movie
Max, médecin malgré lui
Movie · as Max
Max devrait porter des bretelles
Movie · as Max
Max Comes Across
Movie · as Max
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Movie · as Self
Max in Monaco
Movie
The Barometer of Fidelity
Movie
Chance and Love
Movie · as Max
Hairdresser of Love
Movie
Max Wishes He Hadn't
Movie
Max Speaks English
Movie · as Max
The False Max Linder
Movie · as Max
Max Plays the Part
Movie
Max and the Lady Doctor
Movie · as Max
Max Sets the Style
Movie · as Max
Max's Vacation
Movie · as Max
Max as a Chiropodist
Movie · as Max
The Forced Marriage
Movie
Max in the Convent
Movie
Max and the Jealous Husband
Movie · as Max
Max Plays at Drama
Movie
Max asthmatique
Movie · as Max
Max's Latest Hobby
Movie
Max's Hat
Movie · as Max
Max Takes a Picture
Movie
Max: Jockey for Love
Movie · as Max
Max Linder Does All the Sports
Movie · as Max
Max Toreador
Movie
Max Hates Cats
Movie
An Unexpected Marriage
Movie
Le duel de Max
Movie · as Max
Max as a Musician
Movie · as Max
Le billet doux
Movie · as Max
Max Linder's Appointment
Movie
Jalousie
Movie
Max and His Dog Dick
Movie · as Max
A Farmhouse Romance
Movie · as Max
Max Wants to Grow
Movie · as Max
Max Fears the Dogs
Movie · as Max
Max Juggles for Love
Movie · as Max
Max: Boxer By Love
Movie
Max and the Donkey
Movie · as Max
Max and the Statue
Movie · as Max
An Agitated Night
Movie
The Romance of Max
Movie · as Max
Max Sets the Fashion
Movie · as Max
Long-Lasting Love
Movie · as Max
Cordial Agreement
Movie
The Water-Funker
Movie · as Max
The Wedding Trunk
Movie · as Max
Max, Tango Teacher
Movie
Max Takes Back His Freedom
Movie · as Max (uncredited)
Max émule de Tartarin
Movie · as Max
Max amoureux de la teinturière
Movie · as Max
Un pari original
Movie · as Max
Une ruse de mari
Movie
Champion de boxe
Movie · as Max
Max Takes Tonics
Movie · as Max
Max and His Mother-in-Law
Movie · as Max
Max Takes a Bath
Movie · as Max
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Movie · as Max
Max Is Convalescent
Movie · as Max
Max se marie
Movie · as Max
Max a un duel
Movie · as Max
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
Movie
Le serment d'un prince
Movie · as Jacques de Lacerda
Max's First Job
Movie · as Max
Max Gets Stuck Up
Movie · as Max
Max Embarrassed
Movie · as Max
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
Movie · as Tartarin
Max Makes a Touch
Movie
A Short-Sighted Duellist
Movie · as Max
Max Skiing
Movie · as Max
I Want a Baby
Movie
The Effects of Pills
Movie · as Max
Trop aimée
Movie · as Max
Max est distrait
Movie · as Max
Max manque un riche mariage
Movie · as Max
The Puzzle
Movie
The Little Vixen
Movie
Romeo Turns Bandit
Movie
Love's Surprises
Movie
In Love with the Bearded Woman
Movie
A Conquest
Movie
The Gentleman Thief
Movie · as Arsène Lupin
In a Difficult Position
Movie · as Dieutegarde
His First Cigar
Movie
Troubles of a Grass Widower
Movie
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Movie · as The ballet master
Noisy Neighbors
Movie
At the Show
Movie
Harlequin's Story
Movie · as Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Max Learns to Skate
Movie · as Max
For a Necklace
Movie
Phial of Poison
Movie
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
Movie
A Drama in Seaville
Movie · as The Rival
Joined Lips
Movie
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
Movie · as Man on park bench
Attempted Suicide
Movie
First Night Out
Movie
Unforeseen Meeting
Movie