Max Linder

Acting · 0.2 popularity

Age

142

Movies

127

Born: December 16, 1883 – November 1, 1925
From: 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.

Works

127 films

Easter Parade

19487.0

Max Embarrassed

19106.3

Le Petit Café

191910.0

Charlie the Innkeeper

19395.3

An Agitated Night

19125.6

The Barometer of Fidelity

19095.8

Max Juggles for Love

19126.5

Birth of the Tramp

20137.1

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

20208.0

The Way of the World

1947

Max and His Mother-in-Law

19115.5

Life and Deaths of Max Linder

202610.0

Max Makes a Touch

19106.2

The Three Must-Get-Theres

19226.4

Max's First Job

19105.2

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

19316.3

Max and His Dog Dick

19125.8

Max se marie

19119.0

In a Difficult Position

19085.2

A Drama in Seaville

190710.0

I Want a Baby

19105.4

Chance and Love

19156.0

A Farmhouse Romance

19125.0

Max Skiing

19105.4

Max: Boxer By Love

19126.8

Seven Years Bad Luck

19216.7

Romeo Turns Bandit

19096.5

Max in Monaco

19156.5

Max émule de Tartarin

19129.0

Max the Heartbreaker

19174.6

Max Linder Collection 1917-1922

2014

Max Plays the Part

19146.0

Troubles of a Grass Widower

19085.5

The Forced Marriage

19143.3

Max Linder Does All the Sports

19137.0

Love's Surprises

19095.0

All in Good Fun

19554.0

Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin

19177.0

The Romance of Max

19126.5

Max's Vacation

19146.1

Laugh with Max Linder

19637.4

Max and the Statue

19125.8

Be My Wife

19216.8

Au secours !

19246.7

Max Wants to Grow

19125.5

Max and the Lady Doctor

19146.2

Beginning of the Serpentine Dance

19084.6

Noisy Neighbors

19087.0

Max: Jockey for Love

19137.0

Max Toreador

19135.8

The Man in the Silk Hat

19839.0

Max Plays at Drama

1914

Joined Lips

19065.4

Max Sets the Fashion

19125.8

Long-Lasting Love

19125.1

Max Takes a Bath

19116.2

A Short-Sighted Duellist

19105.3

C'est Papa qui a pris la purge

19066.0

Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

19115.4

Max's Latest Hobby

19147.0

Max Wishes He Hadn't

19148.0

Those Were The Days

1946

Max and the Jealous Husband

19145.0

Max Wants a Divorce

19175.9

The Water-Funker

19125.1

Max as a Musician

1913

Max Fears the Dogs

19125.3

The Dentures

19095.3

Max Gets Stuck Up

19106.5

Cordial Agreement

19125.6

The Gentleman Thief

19098.0

Hairdresser of Love

19156.3

Max Learns to Skate

19075.1

Max devrait porter des bretelles

19178.0

Max manque un riche mariage

19106.5

King of the Circus

19245.8

Max Comes Across

1917

Max's Hat

19136.0

Attempted Suicide

19067.5

A Conquest

19097.0

Le duel de Max

191310.0

Tout sur mon père Max Linder

2013

The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger

19108.0

Max Linder's Appointment

19136.5

The False Max Linder

19145.7

Harlequin's Story

19075.4

Max Speaks English

19145.5

Max in the Convent

19146.5

Max, Tango Teacher

19124.9

Max amoureux de la teinturière

19127.0

Max Hates Cats

19136.5

Max as a Chiropodist

19145.0

His First Cigar

19085.4

Max Is Convalescent

19116.4

In Love with the Bearded Woman

19095.8

First Night Out

19057.0

Max est distrait

191010.0

Jalousie

1912

Max Takes a Picture

19136.3

The Wedding Trunk

19124.2

Max Takes Back His Freedom

19125.9

Max asthmatique

19149.0

Trop aimée

19106.0

The Effects of Pills

19107.0

At the Show

19076.5

Max a un duel

191110.0

Pitou, bonne d'enfants

1907

Max Takes Tonics

19116.4

Le billet doux

19138.0

Max and the Donkey

19125.3

For a Necklace

1907

Max Sets the Style

19145.8

Max in a Taxi

19175.8

The Little Vixen

19095.2

An Unexpected Marriage

19136.0

Champion de boxe

19116.0

Max, médecin malgré lui

19178.0

A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)

2026

Phial of Poison

190710.0

Un pari original

19128.0

Unforeseen Meeting

19057.0

The Puzzle

191010.0

Une ruse de mari

19119.0

The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder

1924

Max and the Purse

19174.9

Le serment d'un prince

1910

Comment Max fait le tour du monde

191110.0