Cine AI
Max Linder

Max Linder

Actor · Born 1883-12-16 · Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France

Get the app Browse on web

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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Easter Parade (1948) — Audience Member (uncredited)
  2. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) — Max
  3. The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) — Dart-In-Again
  4. Max Takes a Bath (1911) — Max
  5. Au secours ! (1924) — Max
  6. The Dentures (1909)
  7. Birth of the Tramp (2013) — Self (archive footage)
  8. Be My Wife (1921) — Max, the Fiancé
  9. Max's Vacation (1914) — Max
  10. Max's Hat (1913) — Max
  11. Max's First Job (1910) — Max
  12. Max Takes Back His Freedom (1912) — Max (uncredited)
  13. Max and His Mother-in-Law (1911) — Max
  14. Max Learns to Skate (1907) — Max
  15. Max as a Chiropodist (1914) — Max
  16. Troubles of a Grass Widower (1908)
  17. Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty (2020) — archive footage
  18. Max Takes Tonics (1911) — Max
  19. Long-Lasting Love (1912) — Max
  20. His First Cigar (1908)
  21. Max Speaks English (1914) — Max
  22. Max and His Dog Dick (1912) — Max
  23. Max Takes a Picture (1913)
  24. Max Sets the Style (1914) — Max
  25. Max and Jane Want to Do Theater (1911) — Max
  26. Max Is Convalescent (1911) — Max
  27. Max and the Statue (1912) — Max
  28. Cordial Agreement (1912)
  29. The Water-Funker (1912) — Max
  30. The Romance of Max (1912) — Max
  31. Joined Lips (1906)
  32. The Barometer of Fidelity (1909)
  33. Charlie the Innkeeper (1939)
  34. Max Wants a Divorce (1917) — Max
  35. A Farmhouse Romance (1912) — Max
  36. Max Wants to Grow (1912) — Max
  37. Max Fears the Dogs (1912) — Max
  38. Max and the Lady Doctor (1914) — Max
  39. Love's Surprises (1909)
  40. Max Sets the Fashion (1912) — Max

Directed

  1. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) — Director
  2. The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922) — Director
  3. Be My Wife (1921) — Director
  4. Max's Vacation (1914) — Director
  5. Max's Hat (1913) — Director
  6. Max's First Job (1910) — Director
  7. Max Takes Back His Freedom (1912) — Director
  8. Max and His Mother-in-Law (1911) — Director
  9. Max as a Chiropodist (1914) — Director
  10. Max Takes Tonics (1911) — Director
  11. Long-Lasting Love (1912) — Director
  12. Max Speaks English (1914) — Director
  13. Max and His Dog Dick (1912) — Director
  14. Max Sets the Style (1914) — Director
  15. Max and Jane Want to Do Theater (1911) — Director
  16. Max Is Convalescent (1911) — Director
  17. Max and the Statue (1912) — Director
  18. Cordial Agreement (1912) — Director
  19. The Water-Funker (1912) — Director
  20. The Romance of Max (1912) — Director
  21. Max Wants a Divorce (1917) — Director
  22. A Farmhouse Romance (1912) — Director
  23. Max Wants to Grow (1912) — Director
  24. Max Sets the Fashion (1912) — Director
  25. Max and the Lady Doctor (1914) — Director
  26. Chance and Love (1915) — Director
  27. I Want a Baby (1910) — Director
  28. Max Fears the Dogs (1912) — Director
  29. Love's Surprises (1909) — Director
  30. Max in a Taxi (1917) — Director
  31. An Agitated Night (1912) — Director
  32. Max Toreador (1913) — Director
  33. Max the Heartbreaker (1917) — Director
  34. Max and the Donkey (1912) — Director
  35. Max and the Purse (1917) — Director
  36. Max, Tango Teacher (1912) — Director
  37. Max Juggles for Love (1912) — Director
  38. Max: Boxer By Love (1912) — Director
  39. Max Gets Stuck Up (1910) — Director
  40. Max in Monaco (1915) — Director