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Max Linder
Born · December 16, 1883
Died · November 1, 1925 (41 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Bio
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.
Au Secours!
Max
6.6
1924
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Dart-In-Again
6.3
1922
Be My Wife
Max, the Fiancé
6.8
1921
Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
6.7
1921
Max the Heartbreaker
4.6
1917
Max in a Taxi
Himself
4.8
1917
Max Wants a Divorce
Max
4.9
1917
Max and the Purse
4.9
1917
Max in Monaco
5.2
1915
The False Max Linder
Max
5.0
1914
Max and the Lady Doctor
Max
5.8
1914
Max Plays the Part
4.5
1914
Max as a Chiropodist
Max
4.9
1914
Max Wishes He Hadn't
0.0
1914
Max Speaks English
Max
5.2
1914
Max Sets the Style
Max
5.4
1914
Max's Vacation
Max
5.8
1914
Max's Hat
Max
5.9
1913
Max Linder Does All the Sports
Max
5.5
1913
Max: Jockey for Love
Max
7.0
1913
Max Takes a Picture
5.8
1913
Max and the Statue
Max
5.4
1912
Max Wants to Grow
Max
5.2
1912
The Water-Funker
Max
4.9
1912
Jalousie
0.0
1912
Max: Boxer By Love
5.5
1912
The Romance of Max
Max
5.3
1912
Long-Lasting Love
Max
4.6
1912
Cordial Agreement
5.6
1912
A Farmhouse Romance
Max
4.2
1912
The Wedding Trunk
Max
4.2
1912
Max and the Donkey
Max
4.7
1912
An Agitated Night
4.8
1912
Max Fears the Dogs
Max
4.5
1912
Max Juggles for Love
5.2
1912
Max and His Dog Dick
Max
5.3
1912
Max Sets the Fashion
Max
5.2
1912
Max Takes Tonics
Max
6.5
1911
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Max
5.4
1911
Max Is Convalescent
Max
6.2
1911
Max and His Mother-in-Law
Max
5.3
1911
Max Takes a Bath
Max
6.1
1911
Une ruse de mari
0.0
1911
Champion de boxe
Max
5.0
1911
Max Gets Stuck Up
Max
4.8
1910
Max Embarrassed
Max
5.0
1910
Max's First Job
Max
5.1
1910
Le serment d'un prince
Jacques de Lacerda
0.0
1910
The Dentures
5.0
1909
The Barometer of Fidelity
5.1
1909
La Petite Rosse
3.2
1909
Love's Surprises
5.0
1909
Romeo Turns Bandit
5.0
1909
In a Difficult Position
Dieutegarde
5.0
1908
His First Cigar
5.0
1908
Harlequin's Story
Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
5.0
1907
Max Learns to Skate
Max
4.9
1907
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
Lover in the street
4.5
1907
Joined Lips
4.5
1907
Au music-hall (At the Music Hall)
5.0
1907
Dogs used as smugglers
4.0
1906
First Night Out
0.0
1905
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
0.0
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2024
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2013
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
7.1
2013
The Man in the Silk Hat
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1983
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
0.0
1978
Laugh with Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
7.2
1963
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
(archive footage)
5.3
1931
King of the Circus
Max Graf von Pompadour
5.0
1924
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Self
0.0
1924
Le Petit Café
0.0
1919
Max, médecin malgré lui
Max
0.0
1917
Max Comes Across
Max
0.0
1917
Max devrait porter des bretelles
Max
0.0
1917
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Self
7.0
1917
Chance and Love
Max
5.2
1915
Hairdresser of Love
5.5
1915
Max asthmatique
Max
0.0
1914
Max in the Convent
5.0
1914
The Forced Marriage
3.3
1914
Max Plays at Drama
0.0
1914
Max and the Jealous Husband
Max
5.0
1914
Max's Latest Hobby
0.0
1914
Max as a Musician
Max
0.0
1913
An Unexpected Marriage
4.0
1913
Le billet doux
Max
0.0
1913
Max Hates Cats
5.0
1913
Max Toreador
5.5
1913
Le duel de Max
Max
0.0
1913
Max Linder's Appointment
6.0
1913
Max émule de Tartarin
Max
0.0
1912
Max, Tango Teacher
4.9
1912
Un pari original
Max
0.0
1912
Max amoureux de la teinturière
Max
0.0
1912
Max Takes Back His Freedom
Max (uncredited)
5.8
1912
Max a un duel
Max
0.0
1911
Max se marie
Max
0.0
1911
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
0.0
1911
Max manque un riche mariage
Max
4.0
1910
Trop aimée
Max
4.0
1910
Max Skiing
Max
5.0
1910
The Effects of Pills
Max
0.0
1910
Max est distrait
Max
0.0
1910
A Short-Sighted Duellist
Max
4.5
1910
Max Makes a Touch
5.5
1910
I Want a Baby
5.3
1910
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
Tartarin
0.0
1910
A Conquest
0.0
1909
In Love with the Bearded Woman
4.3
1909
The Gentleman Thief
Arsène Lupin
0.0
1909
Noisy Neighbors
0.0
1908
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
The ballet master
4.8
1908
Troubles of a Grass Widower
5.2
1908
Phial of Poison
0.0
1907
For a Necklace
0.0
1907
The Husband's Trick
0.0
1907
Chaussure trop étroite
Max
0.0
1907
Attempted Suicide
6.0
1906
Les étudiants de Paris
0.0
1906
Julot va dans le monde
Julot
0.0
1906
La puce gênante
0.0
1906
La rencontre imprévue
0.0
1905
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
0.0