Max Linder

Astigmatic, Max apologizes to lampposts, kisses the wrong lady, and is challenged to a duel. (imdb)

As Dart-in-Again, Linder plays an hilarious spoof of the Fairbanks character. He is a peasant's son who rides his donkey, Jazbo, to Paris to make his fortune. Upon his arrival, he meets the three Must-Get-Theres... (All Movie Guide)

Mother in law gets a new set of dentures. Despite being initially happy, the family soon discovers the teeth have a life of their own and jump from their owner's mouth and bite everyone who comes near--from ladies to gentlemen to policemen.

An elegant dandy - he of suit, vest, tie, and top hat - ignores his wife at dinner in favor of his newspaper, so she tearfully leaves him and returns home to mother. He is ecstatic, dancing a jig at the prospect of new-found freedom, but after a series of disasters as he washes up the dishes, shops and cooks, makes his bed and tries to get a night's sleep, then looks unsuccessfully for his tie in the morning, he's at his wit's end and the place is in shambles. Will his better half return? (imdb)

Max has purchased a new bathtub, but bathing in it proves to be more difficult than he anticipated. (imdb)

Ponchinella the servant [called "Harlequin" in the English language version] rescues his girlfriend from a gang of decadent aristocrats, who have transformed her into a mechanical doll. (imdb)

Max has been invited to meet with his in-laws and must dress formally, but each hat he attempts to wear for the occasion gets destroyed. (imdb)

Max causes havoc when he joins other skaters on a frozen lake. (imdb)

It is Max's wedding night, married to the beautiful Stacia Napierkowska. He and his bride are sleeping..... and a flea keeps disturbing him. (archive.org)

Scene, a first-class railway carriage. Max and delightful girl alone. "May I smoke?" breaks the ice, and then Max brings all the arts of fascination to bear on the lady, who is by no means shy. Max calls next day. Her father is in the enamel bath and geyser line. Max is making love; a customer enters. Girlie hides Max in portable shower bath. Enter father, who is a good salesman. He turns on the shower - and Max. What a delightful comedian Linder is. (archive.org)

Max, awakening on his wedding morning, discovers that it is close on the hour when he should be at the church. He dresses hastily, and in struggling with a refractory collar, allows his boots to be burnt by the fire. There is no time to change them, and he hastens off to the bride's house. On the way his soles part company with their uppers, and poor Max enters into negotiations with a passing labourer for the purchase of his footgear. (archive.org)

Max gets his hands and feet covered with glue.

The story is simple: Max and a pretty young lady, whom he has never met before, arrive at the same time at a luxury hotel on the Riviera, each for a little vacation by themselves. They are placed in adjoining hotel suites. Both Max and the pretty lady place their shoes outside their hotel room doors to be cleaned by staff, and the shoes fall in love. (imdb)

Max reads in a newspaper, that Gladys Maxence, a rich American woman, seeks a young sportsman for marriage... (imdb)

When Max, a newly married man, suspects that his wife may be cheating on him, he gives his faithful dog Dick orders to keep on eye on her when he's not at home. (imdb)

The extremely ludicrous adventures of an intoxicated man aboard a yacht. (archive.org)

Blind courtship over a hedge. (imdb)

This Max Linder short starts with a woman stumbling across our main character taking a nap by the water.

In this one, [Max] is on vacation and wooing a young lady, but she and her cousin decide to play a trick on him, by getting him inside a barrel, and then tossing it into the ocean. (imdb)

He attempts to take a photo of a woman in a bathing suit (and she's no beauty), waiting while she swims around like she thinks she's an early embodiment of Esther Williams. He's waiting for her to emerge so he can snap the photo, but she fools him by diving beneath the sea (like an overweight mermaid) and running ashore some distance away so he doesn't see her. (imdb)

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later.

Max pulls a con.

Max visits a lady doctor for a chest cold and is alternately anxious and nervous and excited, in a romantic and sexual way, depicted by his clever pantomime. (imdb)

After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable (imdb)

Max is informed by his rich uncle that he's tired of supporting him. Instead, he has a farmer friend and he wants Max to marry one of the farmer's daughters. However, the farmer decides that his oldest is for Max and has the youngest dress up like a maid. However, Max finds himself drawn to this 'maid' and although he wants to follow his uncle's advice, his heart is leading him to who he thinks is a common working girl. It all culminates in a cute final scene. (imdb)

Auguste is cured! The doctor at the asylum said so. Delighted, his mother gives him a few coins so he can go out for a little entertainment. Auguste settles in a cinema to admire the great Max Linder. Enthused by the film, he goes off with the movie poster to make himself a suit like the star's. With a false visiting card, he goes to an agent, who sends him to the Comica film company. But the charming man is going to make a terrible mistake on his way... (europafilmtreasures.eu)

A man, his wife and their two sons are having a meal. One of the sons leaves the room pretending to be ill and collects a bunch of flowers form a cupboard and goes out. The other son takes a bunch of flowers from under his bed and he too leaves, followed by their father, also carrying flowers.

Max is late for his own wedding, and, worse yet, has no shoes.

The story is about Max who in holiday in Switzerland meets two young American girls. They're friends, the first one is blond, the other one is brunette. He falls in love with the two of them and decide to declare his flame first to the brunette then to the blond. When they realize the game Max is playing, they decide to play also. It is a delicate comedy between the three characters realized all in outsides (certainly around the Leman's lake)with a very good direction and very pretty images. (imdb)

Max Linder in his first Los Angeles made comedy "Max in a Taxi" (imdb)

Max is forced to choose between losing his newly wedded wife and a fortune. He hits upon a brilliant scheme: He will give his wife grounds for a divorce, secure the money and then make his ex-wife Mrs. Linder again. He goes through any amount of trouble in helping her to get the necessary evidence, only to find that it is all a mistake on the part of a stupid lawyer - the money and the wife are both to be his. (imdb)

Max is determined to woo Mary, despite her Aunt Agatha's disapproval. Although only an excerpt is available at this time, this was originally a feature-length film. (imdb)

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of winning the bet when a phone-call brings startling news. (imdb)

Max and his friend, who came to visit him in Paris both fall in love with his new maid. The girl is very friendly, and while one plays the piano, she dances with the other - and they are so happy that even the decor dances at the rhythm. (imdb)

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max equipped letter is received in the Pathe. Submitted to the Director he then tests before the director of the house. A week later he was summoned to Joinville studios. Must play a husband who comes home late. It is defenestrated by his wife and daughter, receiving on its head bed, mattress wardrobe ... A fight ensues, rolling on the tarmac is copiously watered by a municipal officer. (wikipedia)

To reassure his fans, Max Linder has been filming with his family at his place of convalescence ...

Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon, despite the presence of her mother. (imdb)

Max is invited to join his uncle for a holiday, but he hasn't invited his wife, so he sneaks her in in his suitcase, always hiding her from his uncle... (imdb)

Max is in love with Lili, capricious bride who won't do his will until he has recovered the ring she launched into the sea. But Max is afraid of water ...

As a struggling artist, Max is not allowed to pay attentions to a girl by her father. Max decides to win by persistency, and it is a case where persistency meets obstinacy to come off victorious. The artist is required to follow the father and daughter through the Alps. He finally gets the old man's promise to give his consent to the marriage in payment for his rescue. (The New York Dramatic Mirror, Jan. 15, 1913)

Came to visit a girl, Max presents itself as a pedicure ...

Max looks like a human being and acts like a human being and lives in an ordinary looking home and world surrounded by other ordinary human beings -- but, oh, does he gets into amusing messes! In this one, he gets attached to some flypaper in a middle-class home. His mortification is real and so is his comedy. (imdb)

Max, who fears dogs, is chased by them through the city, over walls, and even up a chimney and onto a roof. (imdb)

Max wants to marry a lady. Inexplicably she insists she won't marry him until he learns to juggle! Perhaps she was just trying to blow him off--but you are left wondering WHY! Max goes home and tries to learn but is pretty hopeless. So, he gets a brainstorm that he hopes might work... (imdb)

Max Linder strays further from his usual haunts of situational comedy, far into straight slapstick as he gets into a dispute over the woman he is courting with a pantomime donkey -- although whether the donkey wants the girl or Max i something I can not quite make out. (imdb)

Max starts out at a costume store to get a costume for a party. He sees a suit of armor and purchases it. He wears it to the party and gets kind of drunk and passes out. In the meantime, a museum has a suit of armor ready for a new display. It is to be dedicated and some such. It comes up missing, so Max, passed out and still in his armor is put on display. (imdb)

Max visits a doctor who prescribes a tonic (Bordeaux of Cinchona) for him to drink every morning. Upon returning home, Max sees a large glass which was left by his wife and labeled "Souvenir de Bordeaux". He consumes it its entirety after assuming that it was his medicine. Immediately Max feels much better. Hilarity ensues as Max goes about the day in a completely drunken state.

Max sees himself as a great dramatic actor but his friends all think he's talentless. So, he invites them to come see him in a play. Unfortunately, lots of things go wrong with Max's props during the production. And, following his big dramatic suicide scene, he finds that his friends have all decided to play a trick on him--though Max has the last laugh. (imdb)

Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures. (imdb)

The film is quite sophisticated for it's time with a relatively large number of scene changes as we follow Max's misadventures. It also features a close-up shot to show his reactions to the effects of the cigar he is smoking. (imdb)

A woman and a man are engaged in affixing a large number of gummed postage stamps to envelopes. They periodically interrupt this activity for some kissing. Unfortunately, their method of moistening the stamps is licking them ... so, by rapidly taking it in turns between licking the stamps and kissing each other ... well, you can guess. Primitive physical comedy, but more imaginative (and more romantic) than pratfalls or watering the gardener with his own hosepipe. (imdb)

n the case of this film he plays a young man about town who splits his trousers while getting ready to go out one night. After applying some rather risky repairs without taking the trousers off, Max gingerly heads off to a dinner party. Of course, disaster strikes almost as soon as he arrives, and he spends the rest of the film frantically attempting to hide the gaping tear in his trousers from the other guests. (imdb)

Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck, and entertains no wish of marrying him, though her mother is anxious to see her make the alliance. The parents finally manage to bring the young people together, and they, in turn, exert all their skill in an attempt to disgust each other.

Max wants to marry his girl but one man stands in the way. Her guardian. And Max got to find a way to get him to consent.

Max being a gentleman and helping a lady in distress. Max willingly helps the lady recover her forgotten purse before the boat they're traveling on is leaving.

A man has diarrhea.... a French comedy.

A housewife tires of her husband's annoying behavior and returns to her mother. At first, the husband is quite pleased to have the house all to himself. But he quickly discovers that even the most basic domestic chores can be fraught with difficulty. (imdb)

Max is doing the Tango with Miss Leonora in a Berlin night club. Being impressed by the performance a german Baron asks him to give his family a dancing lesson. In the course of the evening Max gets drunk and is still fighting his hangover when he arrives at the Baron's house the next morning. Before the lesson Max asks them to follow his every move. But because of his condition he is making the weirdest gestures and all ends up in a great turmoil. (imdb)

Max Linder finds himself obsessed with bull fighting. This seems to echo the nature of the actual man, who is reported to have mastered most of the skills that his character attempts within a rapid amount of time; when you see Max challenging a bull or several towards the end of the film, you can be quite confident that it is the real Linder triumphing out on the arena. (imdb)

In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat. She loves the lazy, immobile lump of fur in a way that only cat lovers can, and which is a mystery to us normal people. She pets it, she croons to it, she makes it play the piano --- 'presumably "Kitten on the Keys" and Max just hates it. Max is all reaction takes in this one and up to his usual standards, including one great gag to round off the picture. (imdb)

Max and his wife of three years are happy in most regards but one: they still don't have a child. When Max reads of a new method of "spontaneous generation" in the paper, it seems his fondest wish may have come true. However, the young couple may get more than they bargained for....

Max straps on some skis and heads out for the slopes in typically clumsy fashion.

Again Max is forced into marriage. If he doesn't marry soon he won't get any more money from his uncle. As all three candidates refuse his proposal he talks his servant into playing the bride. He manages to fool his uncle and both get actually married. As soon as he holds in his hands the treaty that grants him a huge amount of money the hurry home. When his uncle pays them a visit they are found out. (imdb)

In this three-reeler, the young lady with whom he is in love is sent to a convent to get her away from Max. Max goes after her. While we are not forced to watch the mustachioed Linder in drag, there are some nice gags here as Max manages to get his chauffeur blamed for everything, including an abduction of the girl.

This time it is he who succumbs to the fascinating hair, falling in love with a "bearded lady" at a fair. Her charms move him so greatly that he is induced to join the troupe with whom he is to play the part of performing bear, doing antic gambles clad in a bearskin. Whilst he is caressing the beard, however, it comes off in his hand, and he perceives that it is an imposture. Disillusioned and filled with grief he rushes from the scene, still wearing the skin, and causes panic wherever he goes.

Max Linder plays the nonchalant, noble nobleman, charmer and vivemann Count Pompadour. Comte Max has been keeping an eye on Ketty, the pretty daughter of a circus director, for some time. Since her father, however, accepts only one man from the circus industry as a father-in-law, Max must now make a powerful effort to acquire an artistic armor. As a result, the millennium is going through an acrobatic speed course in six lessons and makes another passant to the lion tamer.

A man is chased by ten women!

The versatile Max Linder heads a novel chase in this film, the pursuers being three dogs, the pets of the comedian's fiancée. Max was dreadfully afraid of dogs anyhow, and of these dogs in particular, because they were jealous when their mistress caressed Max. On the wedding day he had them locked up, but they escaped and ran to the parlor, where the ceremony was in progress.

This is a travesty on the "red tape" of the French police service; at least the characters seem French and the uniforms worn are of that nation. A young man disappointed in love wanders to the woods, where he hangs himself to the limb of a tree. A boy discovering him, runs in alarm to tell the gardener, who is conveniently at hand; the gardener views the death struggles, but, although having a scythe in his hand, dares not cut the rope without the presence of an officer and hurries after one.

Max is in love with a pretty girl, and one evening pays a stolen visit to his sweetheart's, whose father, a successful dyer, has to leave by a late train for the provinces. Arrayed in a pale gray frock-coat, Max meets his sweetheart's father on the threshold of his front door. The meeting is not to Max's liking, although he is unknown to the dyer. He makes a dash for it, but the dyer sees his gray form disappearing up the staircase, and returns to his flat.

A series of comic mishaps in house boxes at a music hall.

Max is about to make his first call upon a young lady, the daughter of distinguished parents, and he wants to make a good impression. As he dresses to go out he stoops over to fix his shoe and, horrors! He tears his trousers. Where? Well, in a most embarrassing place. He fixes them hurriedly, trusting to have his coat tails cover it, but alas, the coat is too short for this purpose.

Behind-the-scenes footage of visitors to Charles Chaplin's Hollywood sets in the late 1910's to early 1920's (The Chaplin Collection: The Chaplin Revue DVD back cover).

George, passing a pretty woman in the street, has recourse to that old-time trick of dropping his own handkerchief and hurrying after her, making believe that he thinks it is hers. (imdb)