Max Linder
Known for: Acting
Born: December 16, 1883
Died: November 1, 1925
Place of birth: Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
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
128 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
10.0
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
2024
8.0
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
NR
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
2014NR
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
2013
7.1
Birth of the Tramp
2013
9.0
The Man in the Silk Hat
19839.0
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
7.4
Laugh with Max Linder
1963
4.0
All in Good Fun
1955
7.0
Easter Parade
1948
NR
The Way of the World
1947NR
Those Were The Days
1946
5.3
Charlie the Innkeeper
1939
6.3
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931
9.0
Maxim's Porter
1927
6.7
Au secours !
1924
5.8
King of the Circus
1924NR
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
1924
7.0
Par habitude
1923
6.4
The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922
6.8
Be My Wife
1921
6.7
Seven Years Bad Luck
1921
10.0
Le Petit Café
19198.0
Max, médecin malgré lui
1917
4.6
Max the Heartbreaker
1917
5.8
Max in a Taxi
1917
5.9
Max Wants a Divorce
1917
NR
Max Comes Across
1917
4.9
Max and the Purse
1917
8.0
Max devrait porter des bretelles
1917
7.0
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
1917
6.0
Chance and Love
1915
6.3
Hairdresser of Love
1915
6.5
Max in Monaco
1915
5.7
The False Max Linder
19149.0
Max asthmatique
1914
6.5
Max in the Convent
1914
3.3
The Forced Marriage
1914
NR
Max Plays at Drama
1914
6.2
Max and the Lady Doctor
1914
6.0
Max Plays the Part
1914
5.0
Max as a Chiropodist
1914
8.0
Max Wishes He Hadn't
1914
5.0
Max and the Jealous Husband
1914
5.5
Max Speaks English
19145.8
Max Sets the Style
19147.0
Max's Latest Hobby
1914
6.1
Max's Vacation
1914
NR
Max as a Musician
19136.0
An Unexpected Marriage
1913
6.0
Max's Hat
1913
8.0
Le billet doux
19136.5
Max Hates Cats
1913
5.8
Max Toreador
191310.0
Le duel de Max
1913
7.0
Max Linder Does All the Sports
1913
7.0
Max: Jockey for Love
1913
6.5
Max Linder's Appointment
1913
6.3
Max Takes a Picture
1913
5.8
Max and the Statue
1912
5.5
Max Wants to Grow
1912
5.1
The Water-Funker
1912
NR
Jalousie
19126.8
Max: Boxer By Love
19126.5
The Romance of Max
1912
5.1
Long-Lasting Love
1912
5.6
Cordial Agreement
19129.0
Max émule de Tartarin
19124.9
Max, Tango Teacher
1912
5.0
A Farmhouse Romance
1912
4.2
The Wedding Trunk
1912
5.3
Max and the Donkey
19128.0
Un pari original
1912
5.6
An Agitated Night
19125.3
Max Fears the Dogs
1912
6.5
Max Juggles for Love
19127.0
Max amoureux de la teinturière
1912
5.8
Max and His Dog Dick
1912
5.9
Max Takes Back His Freedom
1912
5.8
Max Sets the Fashion
1912
6.4
Max Takes Tonics
1911
5.4
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
191110.0
Max a un duel
1911
6.4
Max Is Convalescent
1911
5.5
Max and His Mother-in-Law
19119.0
Max se marie
1911
6.2
Max Takes a Bath
19119.0
Une ruse de mari
1911
6.0
Champion de boxe
191110.0
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
1911
6.5
Max Gets Stuck Up
19106.5
Max manque un riche mariage
1910
6.3
Max Embarrassed
19106.0
Trop aimée
1910
5.2
Max's First Job
191010.0
The Puzzle
1910
5.4
Max Skiing
19107.0
The Effects of Pills
191010.0
Max est distrait
19105.3
A Short-Sighted Duellist
19106.2
Max Makes a Touch
1910
5.4
I Want a Baby
1910
8.0
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
1910NR
Le serment d'un prince
1910
5.8
The Barometer of Fidelity
1909
5.2
The Little Vixen
1909
7.0
A Conquest
1909
5.0
Love's Surprises
1909
5.8
In Love with the Bearded Woman
19096.5
Romeo Turns Bandit
19098.0
The Gentleman Thief
1909
4.6
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
19087.0
Noisy Neighbors
1908
5.4
His First Cigar
19085.2
In a Difficult Position
1908
5.5
Troubles of a Grass Widower
190810.0
A Drama in Seaville
1907NR
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
1907
5.4
Harlequin's Story
1907
5.1
Max Learns to Skate
1907NR
For a Necklace
1907
6.5
At the Show
1907
10.0
Phial of Poison
1907
7.5
Attempted Suicide
19065.4
Joined Lips
1906
6.0
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
19067.0
Unforeseen Meeting
19057.0
First Night Out
1905NR
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
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