Max Linder
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: December 16, 1883
Day of Death: November 1, 1925 (42 years old)
Place of Birth: Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
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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Max Wants a Divorce
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Max in a Taxi
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Max the Heartbreaker
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Max and the Purse
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Max, médecin malgré lui
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Max devrait porter des bretelles
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Max Comes Across
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Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
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Max the Heartbreaker
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Max in a Taxi
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Max Wants a Divorce
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Max and the Purse
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Max, médecin malgré lui
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Max, médecin malgré lui
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Max devrait porter des bretelles
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Max Comes Across
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Max Comes Across
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Max Wants a Divorce
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Max Wishes He Hadn't
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Max Speaks English
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The False Max Linder
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Max and the Lady Doctor
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Max Plays the Part
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Max Sets the Style
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Max as a Chiropodist
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Max's Vacation
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The Forced Marriage
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Max in the Convent
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Max and the Jealous Husband
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Max Plays at Drama
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Max asthmatique
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Max's Latest Hobby
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Max Speaks English
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Max and the Lady Doctor
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Max Sets the Style
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Max as a Chiropodist
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Max's Vacation
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Max Wishes He Hadn't
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The Forced Marriage
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Max and the Jealous Husband
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Max's Vacation
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Max and the Lady Doctor
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Max Wishes He Hadn't
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Max asthmatique
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Max's Latest Hobby
1913
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Max's Hat
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Max Takes a Picture
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Max: Jockey for Love
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Max Linder Does All the Sports
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Max Toreador
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Max Hates Cats
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An Unexpected Marriage
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Le duel de Max
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Max as a Musician
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Le billet doux
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Max Linder's Appointment
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Max's Hat
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Max Linder's Appointment
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Max Linder's Appointment
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Max Linder Does All the Sports
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Max as a Musician
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Max Hates Cats
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Max Toreador
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An Unexpected Marriage
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Max's Hat
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Max: Jockey for Love
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Max as a Musician
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Le duel de Max
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Le billet doux
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Le billet doux
1912
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Jalousie
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Max and His Dog Dick
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A Farmhouse Romance
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Max Fears the Dogs
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Max Wants to Grow
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Max Juggles for Love
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Max: Boxer By Love
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Max and the Donkey
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An Agitated Night
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The Romance of Max
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Max and the Statue
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Max Sets the Fashion
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The Water-Funker
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Long-Lasting Love
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Cordial Agreement
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The Wedding Trunk
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Max, Tango Teacher
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Max Takes Back His Freedom
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Max émule de Tartarin
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Un pari original
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Max amoureux de la teinturière
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Max Juggles for Love
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Max and His Dog Dick
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Max and His Dog Dick
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A Farmhouse Romance
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Max Wants to Grow
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Max: Boxer By Love
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Max and the Statue
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Max and the Donkey
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The Romance of Max
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An Agitated Night
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Max Sets the Fashion
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The Water-Funker
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Long-Lasting Love
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Cordial Agreement
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The Wedding Trunk
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Jalousie
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Jalousie
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Max, Tango Teacher
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Max Takes Back His Freedom
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Max Fears the Dogs
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Max Takes Back His Freedom
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Max and the Statue
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Cordial Agreement
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Max émule de Tartarin
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Un pari original
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Max amoureux de la teinturière
1911
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Une ruse de mari
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Champion de boxe
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Max and His Mother-in-Law
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Max Takes Tonics
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Max Takes a Bath
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Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
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Max Is Convalescent
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Max se marie
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Max a un duel
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Comment Max fait le tour du monde
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Champion de boxe
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Champion de boxe
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Max Takes Tonics
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Max and His Mother-in-Law
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Max and His Mother-in-Law
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Max Takes a Bath
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Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
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Max Is Convalescent
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Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
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Max Is Convalescent
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Une ruse de mari
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Max se marie
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Max a un duel
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Comment Max fait le tour du monde
1910
Actor Jacques de Lacerda
Le serment d'un prince
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Max's First Job
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Max Gets Stuck Up
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Max Embarrassed
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The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
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Max Makes a Touch
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A Short-Sighted Duellist
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Max Skiing
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I Want a Baby
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The Effects of Pills
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Trop aimée
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Max est distrait
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Max manque un riche mariage
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Max's First Job
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Max Gets Stuck Up
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Max Embarrassed
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The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
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The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
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I Want a Baby
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Max Gets Stuck Up
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I Want a Baby
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The Effects of Pills
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Le serment d'un prince
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Le serment d'un prince
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Max est distrait
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Max manque un riche mariage
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Au music-hall (At the Music Hall)
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Harlequin's Story
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Joined Lips
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Max Learns to Skate
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C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
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For a Necklace
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The Husband's Trick
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Phial of Poison
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Chaussure trop étroite
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Au music-hall (At the Music Hall)
