Max Linder

Personal Info

  • Known ForActing
  • GenderMale
  • Birthday1883-12-16
  • Day of Death1925-11-01 (41 years)
  • Place of BirthCavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France
  • Also Known AsGabriel-Maximilien LeuvielleGentleman Max

Max Linder

Biography

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...Read More

Acting Career