7.2
7.2
Laugh with Max Linder
1963
Writer
Max Linder
Acting
Born:December 16, 1883
Died:November 1, 1925(aged 41)
Birthplace:Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Nationality:France
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (126 movies)
7.1
7.1
Birth of the Tramp
2013
as Self (archive footage)
7.0
7.0
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
1917
as Self
7.0
7.0
Max: Jockey for Love
1913
Director
6.8
6.8
Be My Wife
1921
Producer
6.7
6.7
Seven Years Bad Luck
1921
Producer
6.7
6.7
Au secours !
1924
Writer
6.4
6.4
Max Takes Tonics
1911
Director
6.4
6.4
The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922
Director
6.2
6.2
Max Is Convalescent
1911
Director
6.1
6.1
Max Takes a Bath
1911
as Max
6.0
6.0
First Night Out
1905
6.0
6.0
Attempted Suicide
1906
Director
6.0
6.0
Max Linder's Appointment
1913
Director
5.9
5.9
Max's Hat
1913
Writer
5.8
5.8
Max Takes a Picture
1913
5.8
5.8
Max: Boxer By Love
1912
Director
5.8
5.8
Max's Vacation
1914
Writer
5.8
5.8
Max and the Lady Doctor
1914
Director
5.8
5.8
Max Takes Back His Freedom
1912
Director
5.6
5.6
Cordial Agreement
1912
Director
5.5
5.5
Max Makes a Touch
1910
5.5
5.5
Max Linder Does All the Sports
1913
Director
5.5
5.5
Max Toreador
1913
Writer
5.5
5.5
Hairdresser of Love
1915
Director
5.4
5.4
Max and the Statue
1912
Writer
5.4
5.4
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
1911
Writer
5.4
5.4
Max Sets the Style
1914
Director
5.3
5.3
I Want a Baby
1910
Director
5.3
5.3
Max and His Mother-in-Law
1911
Director
5.3
5.3
The Romance of Max
1912
Director
5.3
5.3
Max and His Dog Dick
1912
Director
5.2
5.2
Max Juggles for Love
1912
Director
5.2
5.2
Max Speaks English
1914
Director
5.2
5.2
Max Sets the Fashion
1912
Director
5.2
5.2
Max in Monaco
1915
Director
5.2
5.2
Troubles of a Grass Widower
1908
Director
5.2
5.2
Chance and Love
1915
Writer
5.2
5.2
Max Wants to Grow
1912
Director
5.1
5.1
Max's First Job
1910
Director
5.1
5.1
The Barometer of Fidelity
1909
5.0
5.0
Max Skiing
1910
as Max
5.0
5.0
Romeo Turns Bandit
1909
5.0
5.0
The Dentures
1909
5.0
5.0
Love's Surprises
1909
Director
5.0
5.0
Harlequin's Story
1907
as Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
5.0
5.0
His First Cigar
1908
5.0
5.0
Max in the Convent
1914
5.0
5.0
Max and the Jealous Husband
1914
Director
5.0
5.0
The False Max Linder
1914
as Max
5.0
5.0
Max Embarrassed
1910
Director
5.0
5.0
King of the Circus
1924
Writer
5.0
5.0
Max Hates Cats
1913
Director
5.0
5.0
At the Show
1907
5.0
5.0
Champion de boxe
1911
Director
4.9
4.9
The Water-Funker
1912
Director
4.9
4.9
Max Learns to Skate
1907
as Max
4.9
4.9
Max Wants a Divorce
1917
Writer
4.9
4.9
Max as a Chiropodist
1914
Director
4.9
4.9
Max and the Purse
1917
Director
4.9
4.9
Max, Tango Teacher
1912
Director
4.8
4.8
Max in a Taxi
1917
Director
4.8
4.8
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
1908
as The ballet master
4.8
4.8
Max Gets Stuck Up
1910
Director
4.8
4.8
An Agitated Night
1912
Director
4.8
4.8
Joined Lips
1906
4.7
4.7
Max and the Donkey
1912
Director
4.7
4.7
In a Difficult Position
1908
as Dieutegarde
4.6
4.6
Long-Lasting Love
1912
Director
4.6
4.6
Max the Heartbreaker
1917
Director
4.5
4.5
A Short-Sighted Duellist
1910
as Max
4.5
4.5
Max Fears the Dogs
1912
Director
4.5
4.5
Max Plays the Part
1914
4.5
4.5
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
1907
as Man on park bench
4.3
4.3
In Love with the Bearded Woman
1909
4.2
4.2
A Farmhouse Romance
1912
Director
4.2
4.2
The Wedding Trunk
1912
Director
4.0
4.0
An Unexpected Marriage
1913
Director
4.0
4.0
Max manque un riche mariage
1910
Writer
4.0
4.0
All in Good Fun
1955
as Archive Footage
4.0
4.0
Trop aimée
1910
as Max
3.3
3.3
The Forced Marriage
1914
Director
3.2
3.2
The Little Vixen
1909
Max's Latest Hobby
1914
Director
Jalousie
1912
Director
A Conquest
1909
Le serment d'un prince
1910
Writer
Max, médecin malgré lui
1917
Director
Max Plays at Drama
1914
Une ruse de mari
1911
Writer
A Nervous Twitch Is Catching (Un Tic Nerveux Contagieux)
TBA
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
1924
as Self
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
2026
as Self (archive footage)
Max devrait porter des bretelles
1917
Director
Unforeseen Meeting
1905
Les Étudiants de Paris
1906
Julot va dans le monde
1906
as Julot
The Way of the World
1947
as (Archive Footage)
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
1911
Director
The Gentleman Thief
1909
Director
Le Petit Café
1919
Writer
For a Necklace
1907
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
1907
The Husband's Trick
1907
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
1910
Director
Those Were The Days
1946
as (self)
The Man in the Silk Hat
1983
as Self (archive footage)
Phial of Poison
1907
The Effects of Pills
1910
Writer
Max se marie
1911
Director
Max Wishes He Hadn't
1914
Director
Max a un duel
1911
Director
Chaussure trop étroite
1907
as Max
Max est distrait
1910
Director
Max émule de Tartarin
1912
Director
Max amoureux de la teinturière
1912
Director
Un pari original
1912
Director
Le duel de Max
1913
Director
Max as a Musician
1913
Director
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
2014
Max Comes Across
1917
Director
Le billet doux
1913
Director
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Max asthmatique
1914
Director
Noisy Neighbors
1908
Maxim's Porter
1927
Writer
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