Caption: Max Linder
Actor, Director, Writer
Born: December 16, 1883
Star sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Known for: Seven Years Bad Luck (1921), Be My Wife (1921), Max Has the Boxing Fever (1910), The Three Must-Get-Theres (1922)
Source: IMDB
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 ...