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 and killed himself in a suicide pact with his wife in 1925.
Filmography
all 130
Movies 129
Director 8
self 7
Writer 3
TV Shows 1
Life and Deaths of Max Linder (2024)
Tout sur mon père Max Linder (2013)
Birth of the Tramp (2013)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978)
Laugh with Max Linder (1963)
All in Good Fun (1955)
It Had to Be You (1947)
The Theft of the Mona Lisa (1931)
Maxim's Porter (1927)
King of the Circus (1924)
Par habitude (1923)
The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922)
Be My Wife (1921)
Le Petit Café (1919)
Max's Vacation (1914)
Jalousie (1912)
Max Juggles for Love (1912)
Max amoureux de la teinturière (1912)
Champion de boxe (1911)
Max manque un riche mariage (1910)
Trop aimée (1910)
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger (1910)
Le serment d'un prince (1910)
A Conquest (1909)
Love's Surprises (1909)
The Gentleman Thief (1909)
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance (1908)
In a Difficult Position (1908)
Harlequin's Story (1907)
Jealousy and Madness (1907)
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge (1907)
ed Lips (1907)
For a Necklace (1907)
Attempted Suicide (1906)
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Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1883-12-06
Deathday
1925-10-31 (41 years old)
Birth Place
Saint-Loubès,
Children
Maud Linder
Siblings
Maurice Leuvielle
Citizenships
Also Known As
Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle, Gentleman Max
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