Max Linder
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.
Peran Terkenal
Tentang
Stage Name: Max Linder
Peran: Acting
Reputasi: 0.4133
Jenis Kelamin: Laki-laki
Tanggal Lahir: 1883-12-16
Lokasi Lahir: Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
Riwayat Perfilman
1919
Le Petit Café
1917
Max the Heartbreaker
1917
Max and the Purse
1915
Hairdresser of Love
1915
Max in Monaco
1914
Max in the Convent
1914
The Forced Marriage
1914
Max Plays at Drama
1914
Max Plays the Part
1914
Max Wishes He Hadn't
1914
Max's Latest Hobby
1913
Max Hates Cats
1913
Max Toreador
1913
Max Takes a Picture
1912
Jalousie
1912
Max: Boxer By Love
1912
Cordial Agreement
1912
Max, Tango Teacher
1912
An Agitated Night
1912
Max Juggles for Love
1911
Une ruse de mari
1910
Max Makes a Touch
1910
I Want a Baby
1909
The Dentures
1909
The Little Vixen
1909
A Conquest
1909
Love's Surprises
1909
Romeo Turns Bandit
1908
Noisy Neighbors
1908
His First Cigar
1907
The Husband's Trick
1907
For a Necklace
1907
At the Show
1907
Phial of Poison
1906
Joined Lips
1906
Attempted Suicide
1905
Unforeseen Meeting
1905