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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Filmography (Movies)
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
Character:
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
Character:
Release Date:13/08/1914
The Forced Marriage
Character:
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
Character:
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
Character:
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
Character:
Release Date:26/09/1913
Max Toreador
Character:
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
Character:
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
Character:
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
Character:
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
Television Appearances
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