Max Linder
Acting
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.
Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
archive footage
Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
Birth of the Tramp
Self (archive footage)
The Man in the Silk Hat
Self (archive footage)
Laugh with Max Linder
Self (archive footage)
All in Good Fun
Archive Footage
Easter Parade
Audience Member (uncredited)
The Way of the World
(Archive Footage)
Those Were The Days
(self)
The Theft of the Mona Lisa
(archive footage)
Au secours !
Max
King of the Circus
Max Graf von Pompadour
The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Self
The Three Must-Get-Theres
Dart-In-Again
Be My Wife
Max, the Fiancé
Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
Le Petit Café
Max, médecin malgré lui
Max
Max the Heartbreaker
Max in a Taxi
Himself
Max Wants a Divorce
Max
Max Comes Across
Max
Max and the Purse
Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Self
Max devrait porter des bretelles
Max
Chance and Love
Max
Hairdresser of Love
Max in Monaco
The False Max Linder
Max
Max asthmatique
Max
Max in the Convent
The Forced Marriage
Max Plays at Drama
Max and the Lady Doctor
Max
Max Plays the Part
Max as a Chiropodist
Max
Max Wishes He Hadn't
Max and the Jealous Husband
Max
Max Speaks English
Max
Max Sets the Style
Max
Max's Latest Hobby
Max's Vacation
Max
Max as a Musician
Max
An Unexpected Marriage
Le billet doux
Max
Max's Hat
Max
Max Hates Cats
Max Toreador
Le duel de Max
Max
Max Linder Does All the Sports
Max
Max: Jockey for Love
Max
Max Linder's Appointment
Max Takes a Picture
Max and the Statue
Max
The Water-Funker
Max
Max Wants to Grow
Max
Jalousie
Max: Boxer By Love
The Romance of Max
Max
Long-Lasting Love
Max
Cordial Agreement
Max émule de Tartarin
Max
Max, Tango Teacher
A Farmhouse Romance
Max
The Wedding Trunk
Max
Max and the Donkey
Max
Un pari original
Max
An Agitated Night
Max Juggles for Love
Max
Max Fears the Dogs
Max
Max amoureux de la teinturière
Max
Max and His Dog Dick
Max
Max Takes Back His Freedom
Max (uncredited)
Max Sets the Fashion
Max
Max Takes Tonics
Max
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Max
Max a un duel
Max
Max Is Convalescent
Max
Max and His Mother-in-Law
Max
Max se marie
Max
Max Takes a Bath
Max
Une ruse de mari
Champion de boxe
Max
Comment Max fait le tour du monde
Max Gets Stuck Up
Max
Max manque un riche mariage
Max
Max Embarrassed
Max
Trop aimée
Max
Max's First Job
Max
The Puzzle
Max Skiing
Max
The Effects of Pills
Max
Max est distrait
Max
A Short-Sighted Duellist
Max
Max Makes a Touch
I Want a Baby
The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
Tartarin
Le serment d'un prince
Jacques de Lacerda
The Dentures
The Barometer of Fidelity
A Conquest
The Little Vixen
Love's Surprises
In Love with the Bearded Woman
Romeo Turns Bandit
The Gentleman Thief
Arsène Lupin
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
The ballet master
Noisy Neighbors
Troubles of a Grass Widower
His First Cigar
In a Difficult Position
Dieutegarde
A Drama in Seaville
The Rival
Pitou, bonne d'enfants
Harlequin's Story
Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Max Learns to Skate
Max
The Husband's Trick
For a Necklace
At the Show
Phial of Poison
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
Man on park bench
Attempted Suicide
Joined Lips
Unforeseen Meeting
First Night Out