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person_profile-Max Linder

Max Linder Died at age: 41

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Max Linder

Date of Birth:

Dec 16, 1883

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Nov 01, 1925

Biography of

Max Linder

    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.

Photos of

Max Linder

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Filmography of

Max Linder

Found 14 Movies in total

... 2024

Birth of the Tramp

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2013

The Man in the Silk Hat

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1983

Laugh with Max Linder

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1963

All in Good Fun

Archive Footage ( Actor )

... 1955

Easter Parade

Audience Member (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1948

It Had to Be You

Wedding Guest (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1947

Deception

Concertgoer (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1946

The Theft of the Mona Lisa

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1931

King of the Circus

Max Graf von Pompadour ( Actor )

Writer

... 1924

The Three Must-Get-Theres

Dart-In-Again ( Actor )

Writer

... 1922

Be My Wife

Max, the Fiancé ( Actor )

Writer

... 1921

Seven Years Bad Luck

Max ( Actor )

Writer

... 1921

... 1919