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silent comedian of France
Max Linder
[1883-1925]

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"For the unique Max, the great master – his student Charles Chaplin"
— film dedication, circa 1926

Max Linder entry at Wikipedia
Max Linder credits [over 200! from 1905-1927] at Internet Movie Database
DVDs of Max Linder at Amazon

Movies of Max Linder
Max Linder credits [over 200! from 1905-1927] at Internet Movie Database
DVDs of Max Linder at Amazon

watch short films by Max Linder {54 entries} at Internet Archive

	"The Actors: Rare Films of Max Linder" [2009] Classic Video Streams DVD [8/2009] for $14.99 contains early max Linder films: "Le Premier Cigare d'un Collégien (His First Cigar)" [1906]; "Max Patineur (Max Learns To Skate)" [1907]; "La Vie de Polichinelle (The Legend of Polichinelle)" [1907]; "Max et La Doctoresse (Max and The Lady Doctor)" [1909]; "Max et sa Belle Mère (Max and His Mother-in-Law)" [1910]; "Max Prend un Bain (Max Takes A Bath)" [1910]; "Max, Victime du Quinquina (Max and The Quinquina)" [1911]; "Max et Jane Veulent Faire du Yhéâtre (Max Plays At Drama)" [1911]; "Max Veut Grandir (Max Gets Stuck Up)" [1912]; "Max et son Chien Dick (Max and His Dog)" [1912]; "Max a Peur des Chiens (Max Fears The Dogs)" [1912]; "Max et La Statue (Max and The Statue)" [1912]; "Max Jongleur par Amour (Max Juggles For Love)" [1912]; "Max Reprend sa Liberté (Troubles of A Grass Widower)" [1912]; "Le Chapeau de Max (Max's Hat)" [1913]; and the surviving 13-minute excerpt of "Be My Wife" [1921 silent feature]
	"Le Cinéma de Max Linder" Region 2 DVD Box Set [2012] - each set includes a French-language booklet Editions Montparnasse Region B/2 b&w Blu-ray set [11/2012] 2 disks - import/used Editions Montparnasse Region B/2 b&w DVD set [11/2012] 3 disks - import/used contains ten silent short films of Max Linder: "Max's Debut At The Cinema", "Max Takes A Bath", "Max In Convale-scence", "Cordial Agreement", "Max Is Afraid of Water", "Max and Jeanne Want To Do Theatre", "Tenacious Love", "Max's Holiday", "Max Pedicure", and "Max and Her Mother-in-Law"; with two documentaries by his daughter Maud Linder: "En Compagnie de Max Linder (In The Company of Max Linder)" [1963], a feature-length montage of the three major films of Max's American period - "Be My Wife", "Seven Years Bad Luck", and "L'Étroit Mousquetaire", and the feature-length "L'Homme au Chapeau de Soie (The Man In The Silk Hat)" [1983]; extras (seem to) include a short film about the restoration of the films and an interview with Maud Linder on the French TV show "Cinq Colon-nes à La Une"
	"Slapstick Symposium: The Max Linder Collection" [2014] includes four films made by Max in America: "Max Wants A Divorce" short [1917]; "Seven Years Bad Luck" silent feature [Feb 1921]; "Be My Wife" silent feature [Nov 1921] - the complete feature (although possibly shortened); and "The Three Must-Get-Theres" silent feature [1922] Kino Lorber/Lobster b&w DVD [5/2014] for $19.30 Kino Lorber/Lobster b&w DVD [5/2014] out of prodn/used

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"Le Premier Cigare d'un Collégien (His First Cigar)" [1906]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInHisFirstCigarlePremierCigareDunCollegien1908

"Max Patineur (Max Learns To Skate)" [1907]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInTheUnskillfulSkater1907debutDunPatineur

"La Vie de Polichinelle (The Story of The Harlequin)" [1907]

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInTheTornTrousersmonPantalonEstDecousu1908

"Max et La Doctoresse (Max and The Lady Doctor)" [1909]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxAndTheLadyDoctormaxEtLaDoctoresse1914

"Roméo se fait bandit (Romeo Turns Bandit)" [1909]
Directed by & starring Romeo Bosetti; also starring Max Linder /tt0292213/ B00005JA9C
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInRomeoTurnsBanditromeoSeFaitBandit1909

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInTheLittleVixenpetiteRosse1909

"Max et sa Belle Mère (Max and His Mother-in-Law)" [1910]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxAndHisMother-in-lawmaxEtSaBelle-mere1914

"Max Prend un Bain (Max Takes A Bath)" [1910]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxTakesABathmaxPrendUnBain1910

"Max, Victime du Quinquina (Max and The Quinquina)" [1911]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxTakesTonicsvictimeDuQuinquina1911

"Max et Jane Veulent Faire du Yhéâtre (Max Plays At Drama)" [1911]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxPlaysAtDramamaxJoueLeDrame1914

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInOneExcitingNightuneNuitAgitee1912
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxAndTheDonkeylaneJaloux1912
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInAFarm-houseRomanceidylleALaFerme1912

"Max Veut Grandir (Max Gets Stuck Up)" [1912]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxIsStuckUpmaxNeSeMarieraPas1910

"Troubles of A Grasswidower" [1912 short]

"Max et son Chien Dick (Max and His Dog)" [1912]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxAndDogDickmaxEtSonChienDick1912

"Max a Peur des Chiens (Max Fears The Dogs)" [1912]
"Max et La Statue (Max and The Statue)" [1912]
"Max Jongleur par Amour (Max Juggles For Love)" [1912]
"Max Reprend sa Liberté (Troubles of A Grass Widower)" [1912]

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxSpeaksEnglishlanglaisTelQueMaxLeParle1913

"Le Chapeau de Max (Max's Hat)" [1913]
"Love's Surprises" [1913 short]
"Max Takes A Picture" [1913 short]

"Max Sets The Style" [1914 short]
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxSetsTheFashionmaxLanceLaMode1912

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxOnTheBrinymaxAMonaco1914

"N'Embrassez pas Votre Bonne" silent short [Pathé Frères April 1914] Written & directed by and starring Max Linder; co-starring Paulette Lorsy credits at IMDb

"Max et Le Mari Jaloux" silent short [Pathé Frères 1914] aka "Jalousie" aka "Jealous Husband" 14-minute silent comedy written & directed by and starring Max Linder; co-starring Henri Collen VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb poster print (multiple sizes) from Amazon starting at $29.99

Max served during World War I as a dispatch driver and suffered several injuries (some accounts say mustard gas);
his health was poor thereafter, as well his mental health.

http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxInATaxi1917
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxWantsADivorce1917
http://www.archive.org/details/MaxLinderInMaxBetweenTwoFiresmaxEntreDeuxFeux1917

surviving 13-minute excerpt of "Be My Wife" [1921 silent feature]
film was restored in 2011?

"Seven Years Bad Luck" silent feature [1921]

"The Three Must-Get-Theres" silent feature [1922]
wonderful scene-by-scene parody of the Douglas Fairbanks 1921 "Three Musketeers"

"King of The Circus" silent feature [Vita-Film Wien May 1924] aka "Max, der Zirkuskönig", "Circus Mania", and "Le Roi du Cirque" 64-minute silent feature filmed in Vienna; co-directed by René Hervil & Edouard Emile Violet; co-directed & written by and starring Max Linder; also starring Eugen Burg, Vilma Bánky, Gyula Szöreghy, Ernst Günther, Viktor Franz, Kurt Labatt, Hans Lackner, Ilona Karolewna, Kurt Kasznar VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb

"Au secours!" aka "Help!" [1924] directed by Abel Gance [1889-1981]

"Chevalier Barkas" [1925]

"En Compagnie de Max Linder" aka "Laugh With Max Linder" [France Nov 1963]

88-minute compilation film produced, written & directed by (daughter) Maud Linder; narrated by René Clair, edited from "Seven Years Bad Luck" [Feb 1921], surviving 13-minute excerpt of "Be My Wife" [Nov 1921 silent feature], and four sketches from other short films 117-minute Image Ent. b&w DVD [9/2003] out of prodn/used incomplete credits at IMDb

Works About Max Linder

	"L'Homme au Chapeau de Soie (The Man In The Silk Hat)" documentary feature [indep France 1963, USA 1983] Produced, written, directed & narrated by (daughter) Maud Linder Region 1 Blu-ray/DVD not available • Kino Video b&w VHS [7/92] out of prodn/used Cam Records soundtrack CD [3/99] 16 tracks - out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb
	"The Ciné Goes To Town: French Cinema, 1896-1914" [1994] by Richard Abel Univ CA Press 10x6¾ pb [6/98] for $37.15 Univ CA Press 10½x7½ hardcover [3/94] out of print/used
	"Stars and Stardom In French Cinema" [2000] by Ginette Vincendeau chapters/subjects include: Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Juliette Binoche, Louis de Funes, Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Gabin, Max Linder {"the world's first film star"}, and Jeanne Moreau {and the New Wave) Continuum Intl. Publng 8¾x6 pb [11/2000] for $44.95 Continuum Intl. Publng hardcover [3/2001] for $74.95
	"The Mystery of The King of Kinema: A Film Essay In 17 Reels" [Zanzibar Spain Nov 2014] 93-minute documentary film by Elio Quiroga; featuring Anthony Balducci, Luciano Berriatúa, Jean-Claude Carrière, José Guimón, Maud Linder, Carlos Paz Molina, Georg Renken, and Julio Perillán {as Max Linder} VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • director's official weblog watch official trailer [9/2015 upload; 2:46] online at Vimeo

"Max Linder, Father of Film Comedy" [BearManor Media - DUE Fall 2017] by Snorre Smári Mathiesen

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Friends & Family
Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle was born in 1925 in Gironde, France; as Max Linder, he became the first international movie star, yet out of the more than 500 films
that he made, only about 82 have been found; he and his wife died in an apparent suicide pact in October 1925.

Jeanne Ninette Peters Linder [1906-25] - married 1923-25

daughter Maud Max 'Josette' Linder [b. 6/1924]
http://www.amazon.com/Max-Linder-etait-pere-French/dp/2080665766/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511727/

admirer & friend Charlie Chaplin [1889-1977]

L i n k s
Max Linder entry at Wikipedia
Max Linder credits [over 200! from 1905-1927] at Internet Movie Database
DVDs of Max Linder at Amazon

U.K. Max Linder fansite
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/film/max_linder.htm

Belguiral's Max Linder Panorama Theater [built 1912] in Paris 9ème, France

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