Laugh With Max Linder

Starring: Max Linder, Thelma Percy Dvd Release: 23rd September, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Max Linder, born December 16, 1883 - died October 31, 1925, was an influential French pioneer of silent film. Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a wine growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theater & as a young man joined a theater troupe touring the country. While working in Paris on the theater stage & in music halls, Leuvielle became fascinated with motion pictures & in 1905 took a job with Pathe Frères that saw him become a comedic actor, director, screenwriter, as well as a producer under the stage name, Max Linder. Max Linder created what was probably the first identifiable motion-picture character who appeared in successive situation comedies. Linder made more than one hundred short films portraying Max, a wealthy & dapper man-about-town frequently in hot water because of his penchant for beautiful women & the good life. By 1911, he was directing his own films as well as writing the script & the universality of silent films brought Linder fame & fortune throughout Europe, making him the highest paid entertainer of the day. Posters Of Max Linder

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