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About Linder As I have never seen a Max Linder film, I cannot write anything about him. I have thus reproduced here two separate articles. Suffice to say, Walter Kerr in film comedy (e.g. the joke of being unveiled on a statue used by Keaton in The Goat and Chaplin in City Lights was first used by Linder). b. Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle Dec 16 1883, Caverne, France. d. 1925. At 17 he left high school to study drama and soon after began an acting career on the Bordeaux stage. He moved to Paris in 1904 and started playing supporting parts in melodramas. In 1905 he embarked upon a parallel career in Pathe films. For three years he spent his days in the film studios and his evenings on the stage, using his real name in the in the years before WW I. Typically playing a dapper dandy of the that anticipated Mack Sennett and Chaplin and set the premises of the genre for years to come. Ferdinand Zecca, Louis Gasnier, and Alberto Capelani were among the directors of his earliest films. By 1910, Linder was writing and supervising, and from 1911 also directing, all his own films. His popularity was at its peak in 1914, when he was called to arms. Early in the war he was a victim of gas poisoning and suffered a serious finding his popularity vanishing, he accepted a bid from Essanay and left for the US late in 1916. Continuous ill health hampered the American phase of Linder's career from the start. In mid-1917, after only three films, he was felled by double pneumonia and spent nearly Artists. But after making only three more American films, including daughter of a Paris restaurateur in 1923. Linder made two more film Their bodies were discovered side by side in a Paris hotel. He remained forgotten for years, until the 60s, when many of his old films began turning up, affording film historians an opportunity to comedy. Biography from Quinlan’s Film Comedy Actors With his foxy brown eyes matched by a like moustache, cane, elegant cutaway coat, silk cravat, kid gloves and gleaming top hat, Max Linder could have been every Boulogne with an independent air”--had not, in films, everything gone wrong for him. Max Linder was France’s first great film comedian. But not for him any kind of dress that smacked of the circus clown. Max was always debonair, even in the face of disaster. His early films in France, of which he made scores, are cameos of situation, such as taking a bath, getting dressed, or (quite often, as the wolfish Max pursued his prey) chasing a damsel. He was enormously popular in the early 1900s. And, had not war intervened, he would perhaps have been happily entertaining continental audiences into his sixties, competing with such upstarts as Jacques Tati and his father had gone to plant vineyards. When the business failed the was a natural athlete (once pole-vault champion of South West France), an ability that was to stand him in good stead in the more 1901, he studied drama for two years before beginning a stage career under his real name. But by 1905 he was playing minor film roles as by 1910. His style of comedy somewhat foreshadowed that of Chaplin (one of his greatest fans) and his dapper, disaster-prone dandy would later prove a useful prototype for Charley Chase. These were the golden years for Linder, who directed all his own work from 1911 to 1917. But the war changed everything. Linder not only received severe shrapnel wounds but was the victim of serious gassing, which left him With his work output and his popularity in France diminishing, a partially recovered Linder accepted an offer to work in America in 1916. After three of a projected run of 12 two-reelers, however, his battle with double pneumonia, the ailing Max entered a convalescent home in Switzerland for a year. Refusing to retire despite continued company there and made three feature films which contain much of his sequence involving a mirror with no glass which predates several such scenes with other prominent American comedians, notably The Marx Brothers in Duck Soup. The last of the three, The Three Richard Lester version 50 years later pale by comparison. But the films were only moderately successful with American audiences and once-confident Linder was becoming an increasingly forlorn figure. into a suicide pact and, a few weeks short of his 42nd birthday, were found dead together in a Paris hotel. Fortunately, in later years his daughter Maud launched a battle to bring his genius to a fresh audience, resulting in two compilation films, Laugh With Max Linder in 1963, and The Man in the Silk Hat 20 years later. Filmography Year Title 1905 La premiere sortie d'un collegien 1906 Le premier cigare d'un collegien 1906 Le poison 1906 Le pendu 1907 Idee d'apache 1907 Une mauvaise vie 1907 La mort d'un toreador 1907 Sganarelle 1907 La vie de Polichinelle 1907 Les debuts d'un patineur 1908 Une conquete 1909 Un mariage a l'americaine 1909 Le petit jeune homme 1909 See the picture! 1920 Le feu sacre 1921 Seven Years Bad Luck 1922 The Three Must-Get-Theres 1923 Au secours! 1924 Clown aus Liebe/Le roi du cirques (GB and US: Max, King of the Circus) | |
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