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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 16, 1883
Died
November 1, 1925
Place of Birth
Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Also Known As
- Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle
- Gentleman Max
Max Linder
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
2024
🎬
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
2013
7.1
Self (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
2013
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Man in the Silk Hat
1983
🎬
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Laugh with Max Linder
1963
4.0
Archive Footage
All in Good Fun
1955
7.0
Audience Member (uncredited)
Easter Parade
1948
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0.0
(self)
Those Were The Days
1946
5.3
(archive footage)
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
1931
Credits
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
2024
0.0
🎬
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
2013
0.0
Birth of the Tramp
as Self (archive footage)
2013
7.1
The Man in the Silk Hat
as Self (archive footage)
1983
0.0
🎬
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)
1978
0.0
Laugh with Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
1963
7.2
All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
1955
4.0
Easter Parade
as Audience Member (uncredited)
1948
7.0
🎬
Those Were The Days
as (self)
1946
0.0
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as (archive footage)
1931
5.3
Au secours !
as Max
1924
6.7
King of the Circus
as Max Graf von Pompadour
1924
5.0
🎬
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
as Self
1924
0.0
The Three Must-Get-Theres
as Dart-In-Again
1922
6.3
Be My Wife
as Max, the Fiancé
1921
6.8
Seven Years Bad Luck
as Max
1921
6.7
Le Petit Café
1919
0.0
🎬
Max, médecin malgré lui
as Max
1917
0.0
Max the Heartbreaker
1917
4.6
Max in a Taxi
as Himself
1917
4.8
Max Wants a Divorce
as Max
1917
4.9
Max Comes Across
as Max
1917
0.0
Max and the Purse
1917
4.9
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
as Self
1917
7.0
Max devrait porter des bretelles
as Max
1917
0.0
Chance and Love
as Max
1915
5.2
Hairdresser of Love
1915
5.5
Max in Monaco
1915
5.2
The False Max Linder
as Max
1914
5.0
🎬
Max asthmatique
as Max
1914
0.0
Max in the Convent
1914
5.0
The Forced Marriage
1914
3.3
Max Plays at Drama
1914
0.0
Max and the Lady Doctor
as Max
1914
5.8
Max Plays the Part
1914
4.5
Max as a Chiropodist
as Max
1914
4.9
Max Wishes He Hadn't
1914
0.0
Max and the Jealous Husband
as Max
1914
5.0
Max Speaks English
as Max
1914
5.2
Max Sets the Style
as Max
1914
5.4
🎬
Max's Latest Hobby
1914
0.0
Max's Vacation
as Max
1914
5.8
Max as a Musician
as Max
1913
0.0
🎬
An Unexpected Marriage
1913
4.0
Le billet doux
as Max
1913
0.0
Max's Hat
as Max
1913
5.9
🎬
Max Hates Cats
1913
5.0
Max Toreador
1913
5.5
🎬
Le duel de Max
as Max
1913
0.0
Max Linder Does All the Sports
as Max
1913
5.5
Max: Jockey for Love
as Max
1913
7.0
Max Linder's Appointment
1913
6.0
Max Takes a Picture
1913
5.8
Max and the Statue
as Max
1912
5.4
Max Wants to Grow
as Max
1912
5.2
The Water-Funker
as Max
1912
4.9
Jalousie
1912
0.0
🎬
Max: Boxer By Love
1912
5.8
🎬
The Romance of Max
as Max
1912
5.3
Long-Lasting Love
as Max
1912
4.6
Cordial Agreement
1912
5.6
🎬
Max émule de Tartarin
as Max
1912
0.0
🎬
Max, Tango Teacher
1912
4.9
A Farmhouse Romance
as Max
1912
4.2
The Wedding Trunk
as Max
1912
4.2
Max and the Donkey
as Max
1912
4.7
🎬
Un pari original
as Max
1912
0.0
An Agitated Night
1912
4.8
🎬
Max Fears the Dogs
as Max
1912
4.5
Max Juggles for Love
1912
5.2
🎬
Max amoureux de la teinturière
as Max
1912
0.0
Max and His Dog Dick
as Max
1912
5.3
Max Takes Back His Freedom
as Max (uncredited)
1912
5.8
Max Sets the Fashion
as Max
1912
5.2
Max Takes Tonics
as Max
1911
6.5
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
as Max
1911
5.4
🎬
Max a un duel
as Max
1911
0.0
Max Is Convalescent
as Max
1911
6.2
Max and His Mother-in-Law
as Max
1911
5.3
🎬
Max se marie
as Max
1911
0.0
Max Takes a Bath
as Max
1911
6.1
🎬
Une ruse de mari
1911
0.0
Champion de boxe
as Max
1911
5.0
🎬
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
1911
0.0
Max Gets Stuck Up
as Max
1910
4.8
🎬
Max manque un riche mariage
as Max
1910
4.0
Max Embarrassed
as Max
1910
5.0
🎬
Trop aimée
as Max
1910
4.0
Max's First Job
as Max
1910
5.1
Max Skiing
as Max
1910
5.0
🎬
The Effects of Pills
as Max
1910
0.0
🎬
Max est distrait
as Max
1910
0.0
🎬
A Short-Sighted Duellist
as Max
1910
4.5
🎬
Max Makes a Touch
1910
5.5
I Want a Baby
1910
5.3
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
as Tartarin
1910
0.0
🎬
Le serment d'un prince
as Jacques de Lacerda
1910
0.0
The Dentures
1909
5.0
The Barometer of Fidelity
1909
5.1
A Conquest
1909
0.0
The Little Vixen
1909
3.2
Love's Surprises
1909
5.0
In Love with the Bearded Woman
1909
4.3
🎬
Romeo Turns Bandit
1909
5.0
🎬
The Gentleman Thief
as Arsène Lupin
1909
0.0
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
as The ballet master
1908
4.8
🎬
Noisy Neighbors
1908
0.0
Troubles of a Grass Widower
1908
5.2
His First Cigar
1908
5.0
🎬
In a Difficult Position
as Dieutegarde
1908
5.0
🎬
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
1907
0.0
Harlequin's Story
as Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
1907
5.0
🎬
Chaussure trop étroite
as Max
1907
0.0
Max Learns to Skate
as Max
1907
4.9
🎬
The Husband's Trick
1907
0.0
🎬
For a Necklace
1907
0.0
At the Show
1907
5.0
Phial of Poison
1907
0.0
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
as Man on park bench
1907
4.5
🎬
Joined Lips
1906
4.5
🎬
Julot va dans le monde
as Julot
1906
0.0
🎬
Les Étudiants de Paris
1906
0.0
Attempted Suicide
1906
6.0
🎬
Unforeseen Meeting
1905
0.0
🎬
First Night Out
1905
6.0
🎬
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
N/A
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