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Max Linder

Max Linder

Acting
16 Dec 1883
01 Nov 1925
Cavernes, Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France

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 making his screen debut in 1905 he quickly became an enormously famous and successful film comedian on bot...

Also Known As

Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle, Gentleman Max

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