Max Linder
Acting
1883-12-16 · 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.
Filmography
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
2024 · Movie
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020 · Movie
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
2014 · Movie
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
2013 · Movie
Birth of the Tramp
2013 · Movie
The Man in the Silk Hat
1983 · Movie
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · Series
Laugh with Max Linder
1963 · Movie
All in Good Fun
1955 · Movie
Easter Parade
1948 · Movie
The Way of the World
1947 · Movie
Those Were The Days
1946 · Movie
Charlie the Innkeeper
1939 · Movie
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931 · Movie
Maxim's Porter
1927 · Movie
Au secours !
1924 · Movie
King of the Circus
1924 · Movie
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
1924 · Movie
Par habitude
1923 · Movie
The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922 · Movie
Be My Wife
1921 · Movie
Seven Years Bad Luck
1921 · Movie
Le Petit Café
1919 · Movie
Max, médecin malgré lui
1917 · Movie
Max the Heartbreaker
1917 · Movie
Max in a Taxi
1917 · Movie
Max Wants a Divorce
1917 · Movie
Max Comes Across
1917 · Movie
Max and the Purse
1917 · Movie
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
1917 · Movie
Max devrait porter des bretelles
1917 · Movie
Chance and Love
1915 · Movie
Hairdresser of Love
1915 · Movie
Max in Monaco
1915 · Movie
The False Max Linder
1914 · Movie
Max asthmatique
1914 · Movie
Max in the Convent
1914 · Movie
The Forced Marriage
1914 · Movie
Max Plays at Drama
1914 · Movie
Max and the Lady Doctor
1914 · Movie
Max Plays the Part
1914 · Movie
Max as a Chiropodist
1914 · Movie
Max Wishes He Hadn't
1914 · Movie
Max and the Jealous Husband
1914 · Movie
Max Speaks English
1914 · Movie
Max Sets the Style
1914 · Movie
Max's Latest Hobby
1914 · Movie
Max's Vacation
1914 · Movie
Max as a Musician
1913 · Movie
An Unexpected Marriage
1913 · Movie
Max's Hat
1913 · Movie
Le billet doux
1913 · Movie
Max Hates Cats
1913 · Movie
Max Toreador
1913 · Movie
Le duel de Max
1913 · Movie
Max Linder Does All the Sports
1913 · Movie
Max: Jockey for Love
1913 · Movie
Max Linder's Appointment
1913 · Movie
Max Takes a Picture
1913 · Movie
Max and the Statue
1912 · Movie
The Water-Funker
1912 · Movie
Max Wants to Grow
1912 · Movie
Jalousie
1912 · Movie
Max: Boxer By Love
1912 · Movie
The Romance of Max
1912 · Movie
Long-Lasting Love
1912 · Movie
Cordial Agreement
1912 · Movie
Max émule de Tartarin
1912 · Movie
Max, Tango Teacher
1912 · Movie
A Farmhouse Romance
1912 · Movie
The Wedding Trunk
1912 · Movie
Max and the Donkey
1912 · Movie
Un pari original
1912 · Movie
An Agitated Night
1912 · Movie
Max Juggles for Love
1912 · Movie
Max Fears the Dogs
1912 · Movie
Max amoureux de la teinturière
1912 · Movie
Max and His Dog Dick
1912 · Movie
Max Takes Back His Freedom
1912 · Movie
Max Sets the Fashion
1912 · Movie
Max Takes Tonics
1911 · Movie
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
1911 · Movie
Max a un duel
1911 · Movie
Max Is Convalescent
1911 · Movie
Max and His Mother-in-Law
1911 · Movie
Max se marie
1911 · Movie
Max Takes a Bath
1911 · Movie
Une ruse de mari
1911 · Movie
Champion de boxe
1911 · Movie
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
1911 · Movie
Max Gets Stuck Up
1910 · Movie
Max manque un riche mariage
1910 · Movie
Max Embarrassed
1910 · Movie
Trop aimée
1910 · Movie
Max's First Job
1910 · Movie
The Puzzle
1910 · Movie
Max Skiing
1910 · Movie
The Effects of Pills
1910 · Movie
Max est distrait
1910 · Movie
A Short-Sighted Duellist
1910 · Movie
Max Makes a Touch
1910 · Movie
I Want a Baby
1910 · Movie
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
1910 · Movie
Le serment d'un prince
1910 · Movie
The Barometer of Fidelity
1909 · Movie
A Conquest
1909 · Movie
The Little Vixen
1909 · Movie
Love's Surprises
1909 · Movie
In Love with the Bearded Woman
1909 · Movie
Romeo Turns Bandit
1909 · Movie
The Gentleman Thief
1909 · Movie
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
1908 · Movie
Noisy Neighbors
1908 · Movie
His First Cigar
1908 · Movie
In a Difficult Position
1908 · Movie
Troubles of a Grass Widower
1908 · Movie
A Drama in Seaville
1907 · Movie
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
1907 · Movie
Harlequin's Story
1907 · Movie
Max Learns to Skate
1907 · Movie
For a Necklace
1907 · Movie
At the Show
1907 · Movie
Phial of Poison
1907 · Movie
Attempted Suicide
1906 · Movie
Joined Lips
1906 · Movie
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
1906 · Movie
Unforeseen Meeting
1905 · Movie
First Night Out
1905 · Movie
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
Movie