MAX LINDER
ACTING
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.
Seven Years Bad Luck 1921
Max and His Mother-in-Law 1911
Max and His Dog Dick 1912
Max Takes Tonics 1911
The Three Must-Get-Theres 1922
Max's First Job 1910
Harlequin's Story 1907
Be My Wife 1921
Au Secours ! 1924
Max and Jane Want to Do Theater 1911
The Water-Funker 1912
Max as a Chiropodist 1914
Max's Vacation 1914
It Had to Be You 1947