Max Linder Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Max Linder

Max Linder

Acting

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 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 Movies

Acting

At the Show movie poster
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At the Show

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At the Show
Une ruse de mariMOVIE
MOVIE

Une ruse de mari

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Une ruse de mari
Max Wishes He Hadn't movie poster
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Max Wishes He Hadn't

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Max Wishes He Hadn't
Jalousie movie poster
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Jalousie
Seven Years Bad Luck movie poster
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Seven Years Bad Luck

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Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
Le serment d'un princeMOVIE
MOVIE

Le serment d'un prince

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Le serment d'un prince
Jacques de Lacerda
Champion de boxe movie poster
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Champion de boxe

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Champion de boxe
Max
Max Speaks English movie poster
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Max Speaks English

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Max Speaks English
Max
Max in a Taxi movie poster
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Max in a Taxi

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Max in a Taxi
Himself
Max Takes Tonics movie poster
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Max Takes Tonics

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Max Takes Tonics
Max

Production

Champion de boxe movie poster
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Champion de boxe

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Champion de boxe
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Champion de boxe movie poster
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Champion de boxe

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Champion de boxe
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Seven Years Bad Luck movie poster
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Seven Years Bad Luck

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Seven Years Bad Luck
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The Three Must-Get-Theres movie poster
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The Three Must-Get-Theres

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The Three Must-Get-Theres
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The Three Must-Get-Theres movie poster
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The Three Must-Get-Theres

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The Three Must-Get-Theres
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The Gentleman ThiefMOVIE
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The Gentleman Thief

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The Gentleman Thief
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Max Juggles for Love movie poster
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Max Juggles for Love

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Max Juggles for Love
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Max Speaks English movie poster
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Max Speaks English

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Max Speaks English
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Max in a Taxi movie poster
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Max in a Taxi

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Max in a Taxi
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Max Takes Tonics movie poster
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Max Takes Tonics

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Max Takes Tonics
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Gallery

Max Linder portrait