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Max Linder

Max Linder

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.

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

236

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-12-16

Place of Birth

Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France

Also Known As

Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle, Gentleman Max

Known For

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