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Birth Name: Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle
Born: 16 December 1883 Died: 31 October 1925
Country of origin: 
France
Height: 5' 2"
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Movie Stars Who Killed Themselves 1915-1970
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Silent Film Actors
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My Favorite Movie Stars
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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.
Linder 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 both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to his character "Max," a top-hatted dandy. By 1912 he was the highest-paid film star in t
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1. Seven Years Bad Luck (1921)
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3. Help!
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4. Troubles of a Grasswidower (1912)
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5. Be My Wife (1921)
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5. Max Takes Tonics (1911)
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Movie Stars Who Killed Themselves 1915-1970 (21 person items)" French Actor December 16 1883 - October 31 1925 He commited suicide with is wife Hélène Jean Peters by drinking some Veronal, injected morphins and cut open the veins in their arms. Notable Films Max And His Mother-In-Law (1911) Max Wants A Divorce (1917) Seven Years Bad Luck (1921) "
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