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Max Linder
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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 dir…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Max Linder's Filmography
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Life and Deaths of Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
as archive footage
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
No Poster
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
as Self (archive footage)
The Man in the Silk Hat
as Self (archive footage)
Laugh with Max Linder
as Self (archive footage)
All in Good Fun
as Archive Footage
The Way of the World
as (Archive Footage)
No Poster
Those Were The Days
as (self)
Charlie the Innkeeper
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
as (archive footage)
Au secours !
as Max
King of the Circus
as Max Graf von Pompadour
No Poster
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
as Self
The Three Must-Get-Theres
as Dart-In-Again
Be My Wife
as Max, the Fiancé
Seven Years Bad Luck
as Max
Le Petit Café
No Poster
Max, médecin malgré lui
as Max
Max the Heartbreaker
Max in a Taxi
as Himself
Max Wants a Divorce
as Max
Max Comes Across
as Max
Max and the Purse
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
as Self
Max devrait porter des bretelles
as Max
Chance and Love
as Max
Hairdresser of Love
Max in Monaco
The False Max Linder
as Max
No Poster
Max asthmatique
as Max
Max in the Convent
The Forced Marriage
Max Plays at Drama
Max and the Lady Doctor
as Max
Max Plays the Part
Max as a Chiropodist
as Max
Max Wishes He Hadn't
Max and the Jealous Husband
as Max
Max Speaks English
as Max
Max Sets the Style
as Max
Max's Latest Hobby
Max's Vacation
as Max
Max as a Musician
as Max
An Unexpected Marriage
Le billet doux
as Max
Max's Hat
as Max
No Poster
Max Hates Cats
Max Toreador
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Le duel de Max
as Max
Max Linder Does All the Sports
as Max
Max: Jockey for Love
as Max
Max Linder's Appointment
Max Takes a Picture
Max and the Statue
as Max
The Water-Funker
as Max
Max Wants to Grow
as Max
Jalousie
No Poster
Max: Boxer By Love
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The Romance of Max
as Max
Long-Lasting Love
as Max
Cordial Agreement
No Poster
Max émule de Tartarin
as Max
No Poster
Max, Tango Teacher
A Farmhouse Romance
as Max
The Wedding Trunk
as Max
Max and the Donkey
as Max
No Poster
Un pari original
as Max
An Agitated Night
Max Juggles for Love
as Max
No Poster
Max Fears the Dogs
as Max
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Max amoureux de la teinturière
as Max
Max and His Dog Dick
as Max
Max Takes Back His Freedom
as Max (uncredited)
Max Sets the Fashion
as Max
Max Takes Tonics
as Max
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
as Max
No Poster
Max a un duel
as Max
Max Is Convalescent
as Max
Max and His Mother-in-Law
as Max
No Poster
Max se marie
as Max
Max Takes a Bath
as Max
No Poster
Une ruse de mari
Champion de boxe
as Max
No Poster
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
Max Gets Stuck Up
as Max
No Poster
Max manque un riche mariage
as Max
Max Embarrassed
as Max
No Poster
The Puzzle
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Trop aimée
as Max
Max's First Job
as Max
Max Skiing
as Max
No Poster
The Effects of Pills
as Max
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Max est distrait
as Max
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A Short-Sighted Duellist
as Max
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Max Makes a Touch
I Want a Baby
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
as Tartarin
No Poster
Le serment d'un prince
as Jacques de Lacerda
The Barometer of Fidelity
A Conquest
The Little Vixen
Love's Surprises
In Love with the Bearded Woman
No Poster
Romeo Turns Bandit
No Poster
The Gentleman Thief
as Arsène Lupin
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
as The ballet master
No Poster
Noisy Neighbors
His First Cigar
No Poster
In a Difficult Position
as Dieutegarde
Troubles of a Grass Widower
No Poster
A Drama in Seaville
as The Rival
No Poster
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
Harlequin's Story
as Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Max Learns to Skate
as Max
No Poster
For a Necklace
At the Show
Phial of Poison
Attempted Suicide
No Poster
Joined Lips
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
as Man on park bench
No Poster
Unforeseen Meeting
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First Night Out
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