Max Linder
Actor/Actriz
89
Movies
0
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Le Pendu
Desfile de Pascua
Audience Member (uncredited)
Max cherche une fiancée
Max
Le Petit Café
Kalle på Spången
Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté
archive footage
Le mariage forcé
La naissance de Charlot
Self (archive footage)
Le baromètre de la fidélité
Une nuit agitée
Be My Wife
Max, the Fiancé
En compagnie de Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Der Raub der Mona Lisa
(archive footage)
Le ratelier de la belle-mère
Le Premier cigare d'un collégien
Max, der Zirkuskönig
Max Graf von Pompadour
Entente Cordiale
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
Les débuts de Max au cinéma
Max
Au secours !
Max
Max et la doctoresse
Max
Życie i śmierci Maxa Lindera
Self (archive footage)
La Légende de Polichinelle
Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
Los tres mosquiteros
Dart-In-Again
Max jongleur par amour
Max
Les Débuts d'un patineur
Max
Max lance la mode
Max
Le hasard et l'amour
Max
Vive la vie de garçon
Behind the Camera
Max cherche une fiancée
Director
Le Petit Café
Escritor
Le mariage forcé
Director
Une nuit agitée
Director
Be My Wife
Director, Escritor, Productor
En compagnie de Max Linder
Escritor
Max, der Zirkuskönig
Escritor
Entente Cordiale
Director, Escritor
Par habitude
Historia
Les débuts de Max au cinéma
Director
Au secours !
Escritor
Max et la doctoresse
Director, Escritor
Seven Years Bad Luck
Director, Escritor, Productor
Los tres mosquiteros
Director, Escritor
Max jongleur par amour
Director
Max lance la mode
Director
Le hasard et l'amour
Director, Escritor
Champion de boxe
Director, Escritor
Max reprend sa liberté
Director, Escritor
Max ne se mariera pas
Director, Escritor
Les Surprises de L'amour
Director
Max à Monaco
Director
Max in a Taxi
Director
Le billet doux
Scenario Writer, Director
Coiffeur par amour
Director
Max victime du quinquina
Director
Le rendez-vous
Director, Escritor
Max et la statue
Director, Escritor
Jalousie
Escritor, Director
Max Toreador
Director, Escritor