Реферат: Max Linder

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

The Silent Clowns (see books page) rates him as a true pioneer of

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

theater and the pseudonym Max Linder on the screen. By 1908 he had

given up the stage to concentrate on his increasingly successful

screen career. By 1910 he was an internationally popular comedian,

possibly the best-known screen comic on either side of the Atlantic

in the years before WW I. Typically playing a dapper dandy of the

idle class, he developed a style of slapstick silent screen comedy

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

breakdown. The injury was to have a lasting effect on his physical and mental well-being. He returned briefly to French films, but

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