Max Linder
47 Movies
Movies
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Plays Max
Max Embarrassed
1910
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Plays Max
Max Juggles for Love
1912
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Plays Max
Max and His Mother-in-Law
1911
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Plays Dart-In-Again
The Three Must-Get-Theres
1922
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Max's First Job
1910
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Plays Max
Max and His Dog Dick
1912
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Plays Max, the Fiancé
Be My Wife
1921
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Plays Max
Au secours !
1924
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Seven Years Bad Luck
1921
Plays Max
Max Skiing
1910
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Plays Max
Max Takes Tonics
1911
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Plays Max Graf von Pompadour
King of the Circus
1924
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Long-Lasting Love
1912
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Max and the Donkey
1912
Plays Max
Max Learns to Skate
1907
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Chance and Love
1915
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Max and the Statue
1912
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Plays Max
A Farmhouse Romance
1912
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Plays Max
Max as a Chiropodist
1914
Plays Max
Max Takes a Bath
1911
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Plays Max
Max Linder Does All the Sports
1913
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Plays Max
Max Sets the Fashion
1912
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Plays Max
Max's Vacation
1914
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Max devrait porter des bretelles
1917
Plays Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Harlequin's Story
1907
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Plays Max
Max Speaks English
1914
Plays The ballet master
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
1908
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Max and the Lady Doctor
1914
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The Water-Funker
1912
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Plays Max
Max Wants to Grow
1912
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Plays Max
Max Wants a Divorce
1917
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The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
1910
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Plays Max
Max Gets Stuck Up
1910
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Plays Max
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
1911
Plays Max
The False Max Linder
1914
Plays Man on park bench
C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
1906
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Plays Max
Max's Hat
1913
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Le billet doux
1913
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Plays Max
Max Is Convalescent
1911
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Au secours !
Max
1924
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King of the Circus
Max Graf von Pompadour
1924
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
Dart-In-Again
1922
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Be My Wife
Max, the Fiancé
1921
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Seven Years Bad Luck
Max
1921
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Max in a Taxi
Himself
1917
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Max Wants a Divorce
Max
1917
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Max Comes Across
Max
1917
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Max devrait porter des bretelles
Max
1917
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Max Linder still alive?
Max Linder passed away on November 1, 1925 at age 41.
What are the most famous roles of Max Linder?
Max Linder is best known for roles in Seven Years Bad Luck, The Three Must-Get-Theres, Max Takes a Bath.
How many movies has Max Linder been in?
Over a 20-year career (since 1905), Max Linder has appeared in 46 movies and 0 TV shows.
What was Max Linder's first movie?
The career of Max Linder began with First Night Out (1905).
What is Max Linder's most recent movie or series?
Max Linder's most recent release is Au secours !, which premiered on June 17, 1924.
Max Linder
1883-12-16 · 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.