Maud Linder

Maud Lydie Linder (born 27 June 1924) is a French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.

Life

Maud Linder was born in 1924 as only daughter of silent film star Max Linder and his wife Hélène Peters. Her parents both committed suicide in October 1925.^[1][2]

Aged 20 she saw one of her fathers movies and decided to make his works accessible to the public again. In 1963 Maud Linder compiled a film titled Laugh with Max Linder which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and also received the Étoile de Cristal. The film was a compilation of her fathers last three films made in Hollywood. In 1983 Maud Linder made a documentary film titled The Man in the Silk Hat, about the life and career of her father. It was screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.^[3] In 1992, Maud Linder published a book about Linder in France, Max Linder was my father and in 2008 she received the Prix Henri Langlois^[4] for her work to promote her father's legacy.

Besides she worked as journalist and in the 1950s and 1960s also as an assistant director, mostly for the filmmaker Jean-Paul Le Chanois.

Selected filmography

• 1954: Papa, maman, la bonne et moi (assistant director)
• 1954: Faites-moi confiance (assistant director)
• 1955: Papa, maman, ma femme et moi... (assistant director)
• 1961: Par-dessus le mur (assistant director)
• 1963: Laugh with Max Linder (En compagnie de Max Linder, director and producer)
• 1983: The Man in the Silk Hat (L'homme au chapeau de soie, director, screenwriter and producer)
• 2014: The Mystery of the King of Kinema (interview)

Books

• Max Linder. In: Les Dieux du cinéma muet. Paris, 1992, Éditions Atlas
• Max Linder etait mon pere. Paris, 1992, Flammarion, ISBN 978-2080665768

External links

• Maud Linder on IMDb
• Biography of Maud Linder (French)

See also

• List of people whose parent committed suicide

References

1. ↑ This Day in Cinema: This Day in 1925: Silent star Max Linder commits suicide, moviemail.com, access date 23 January 2015
2. ↑ Max Linder - Mein Vater, der Filmstar, arte.tv, access date 23 January 2015
3. ↑ Official Selection 1983: Out of Competition, festival-cannes.fr, access date 23 January 2015
4. ↑ Lauréats récompensés depuis 2006, prixhenrilanglois.wordpress.com, access date 23 January 2015