
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.
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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Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:16/01/2026

Max Linder Collection 1917-1922
Character:
Release Date:01/01/2014

Tout sur mon père Max Linder
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:31/12/2013

Birth of the Tramp
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/12/2013

The Man in the Silk Hat
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:05/11/1983

Laugh with Max Linder
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:22/11/1963

All in Good Fun
Character:Archive Footage
Release Date:01/01/1955

Easter Parade
Character:Audience Member (uncredited)
Release Date:08/07/1948

The Way of the World
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:01/01/1947

Those Were The Days
Character:(self)
Release Date:29/11/1946

The Theft of the Mona Lisa
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:24/08/1931

Au secours !
Character:Max
Release Date:17/06/1924

King of the Circus
Character:Max Graf von Pompadour
Release Date:23/05/1924

The World of Yesteryear – Max Linder
Character:Self
Release Date:09/03/1924

The Three Must-Get-Theres
Character:Dart-In-Again
Release Date:22/08/1922

Be My Wife
Character:Max, the Fiancé
Release Date:01/04/1921

Seven Years Bad Luck
Character:Max
Release Date:06/02/1921

Le Petit Café
Character:
Release Date:02/01/1919

Max, médecin malgré lui
Character:Max
Release Date:21/09/1917

Max the Heartbreaker
Character:
Release Date:04/05/1917

Max in a Taxi
Character:Himself
Release Date:23/04/1917

Max Wants a Divorce
Character:Max
Release Date:26/03/1917

Max Comes Across
Character:Max
Release Date:18/02/1917

Max and the Purse
Character:
Release Date:02/02/1917

Max devrait porter des bretelles
Character:Max
Release Date:01/01/1917

Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1917

Chance and Love
Character:Max
Release Date:31/12/1915

Hairdresser of Love
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Release Date:22/04/1915

Max in Monaco
Character:
Release Date:07/01/1915

The False Max Linder
Character:Max
Release Date:29/09/1914

Max asthmatique
Character:Max
Release Date:17/09/1914

Max in the Convent
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Release Date:13/08/1914

The Forced Marriage
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Release Date:10/08/1914

Max Plays at Drama
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Release Date:23/07/1914

Max and the Lady Doctor
Character:Max
Release Date:10/07/1914

Max Plays the Part
Character:
Release Date:01/07/1914

Max as a Chiropodist
Character:Max
Release Date:23/04/1914

Max Wishes He Hadn't
Character:
Release Date:14/04/1914

Max and the Jealous Husband
Character:Max
Release Date:10/04/1914

Max Speaks English
Character:Max
Release Date:06/03/1914

Max Sets the Style
Character:Max
Release Date:05/03/1914

Max's Latest Hobby
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Release Date:14/02/1914

Max's Vacation
Character:Max
Release Date:09/01/1914

Max as a Musician
Character:Max
Release Date:12/12/1913

An Unexpected Marriage
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Release Date:11/11/1913

Max's Hat
Character:Max
Release Date:24/10/1913

Le billet doux
Character:Max
Release Date:24/10/1913

Max Hates Cats
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Release Date:26/09/1913

Max Toreador
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Release Date:11/09/1913

Le duel de Max
Character:Max
Release Date:29/08/1913

Max Linder Does All the Sports
Character:Max
Release Date:03/07/1913

Max: Jockey for Love
Character:Max
Release Date:21/03/1913

Max Linder's Appointment
Character:
Release Date:07/03/1913

Max Takes a Picture
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Release Date:12/01/1913

Max and the Statue
Character:Max
Release Date:20/12/1912

Max Wants to Grow
Character:Max
Release Date:06/12/1912

The Water-Funker
Character:Max
Release Date:06/12/1912

Jalousie
Character:
Release Date:01/12/1912

Max: Boxer By Love
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Release Date:24/10/1912

The Romance of Max
Character:Max
Release Date:17/10/1912

Long-Lasting Love
Character:Max
Release Date:03/10/1912

Cordial Agreement
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Release Date:19/09/1912

Max émule de Tartarin
Character:Max
Release Date:30/08/1912

Max, Tango Teacher
Character:
Release Date:16/08/1912

A Farmhouse Romance
Character:Max
Release Date:15/08/1912

The Wedding Trunk
Character:Max
Release Date:18/07/1912

Max and the Donkey
Character:Max
Release Date:04/07/1912

Un pari original
Character:Max
Release Date:21/06/1912

An Agitated Night
Character:
Release Date:24/05/1912

Max Fears the Dogs
Character:Max
Release Date:08/05/1912

Max Juggles for Love
Character:Max
Release Date:08/05/1912

Max amoureux de la teinturière
Character:Max
Release Date:23/02/1912

Max and His Dog Dick
Character:Max
Release Date:09/02/1912

Max Takes Back His Freedom
Character:Max (uncredited)
Release Date:26/01/1912

Max Sets the Fashion
Character:Max
Release Date:05/01/1912

Max Takes Tonics
Character:Max
Release Date:15/12/1911

Max and Jane Want to Do Theater
Character:Max
Release Date:11/12/1911

Max a un duel
Character:Max
Release Date:11/09/1911

Max Is Convalescent
Character:Max
Release Date:25/08/1911

Max and His Mother-in-Law
Character:Max
Release Date:28/04/1911

Max se marie
Character:Max
Release Date:17/03/1911

Max Takes a Bath
Character:Max
Release Date:01/02/1911

Une ruse de mari
Character:
Release Date:16/01/1911

Champion de boxe
Character:Max
Release Date:10/01/1911

Comment Max fait le tour du monde
Character:
Release Date:04/01/1911

Max Gets Stuck Up
Character:Max
Release Date:31/12/1910

Max manque un riche mariage
Character:Max
Release Date:03/12/1910

Max Embarrassed
Character:Max
Release Date:12/11/1910

Trop aimée
Character:Max
Release Date:15/10/1910

Max's First Job
Character:Max
Release Date:01/10/1910

Max Skiing
Character:Max
Release Date:14/07/1910

The Effects of Pills
Character:Max
Release Date:09/07/1910

Max est distrait
Character:Max
Release Date:03/07/1910

A Short-Sighted Duellist
Character:Max
Release Date:01/07/1910

Max Makes a Touch
Character:
Release Date:20/05/1910

I Want a Baby
Character:
Release Date:08/04/1910

The Adventures of Tartarin the Younger
Character:Tartarin
Release Date:07/01/1910

Le serment d'un prince
Character:Jacques de Lacerda
Release Date:01/01/1910

The Dentures
Character:
Release Date:16/11/1909

The Barometer of Fidelity
Character:
Release Date:04/11/1909

The Little Vixen
Character:
Release Date:22/10/1909

A Conquest
Character:
Release Date:22/10/1909

Love's Surprises
Character:
Release Date:16/10/1909

In Love with the Bearded Woman
Character:
Release Date:30/08/1909

Romeo Turns Bandit
Character:
Release Date:16/05/1909

The Gentleman Thief
Character:Arsène Lupin
Release Date:01/01/1909

Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Character:The ballet master
Release Date:03/09/1908

Noisy Neighbors
Character:
Release Date:18/07/1908

Troubles of a Grass Widower
Character:
Release Date:05/04/1908

His First Cigar
Character:
Release Date:06/03/1908

In a Difficult Position
Character:Dieutegarde
Release Date:23/02/1908

Pitou, bonne d'enfants
Character:
Release Date:25/07/1907

Harlequin's Story
Character:Polichinelle / Ponchinella / Harlequin
Release Date:26/06/1907

Chaussure trop étroite
Character:Max
Release Date:20/04/1907

Max Learns to Skate
Character:Max
Release Date:15/04/1907

The Husband's Trick
Character:
Release Date:07/03/1907

For a Necklace
Character:
Release Date:10/02/1907

At the Show
Character:
Release Date:20/01/1907

Phial of Poison
Character:
Release Date:12/01/1907

C'est Papa qui a pris la purge
Character:Man on park bench
Release Date:01/01/1907

Joined Lips
Character:
Release Date:10/12/1906

Julot va dans le monde
Character:Julot
Release Date:17/06/1906

Les Étudiants de Paris
Character:
Release Date:13/06/1906

Attempted Suicide
Character:
Release Date:09/01/1906

Unforeseen Meeting
Character:
Release Date:25/08/1905

First Night Out
Character:
Release Date:20/07/1905