Name Maud Linder Role Journalist | Movies The Man in the Silk Hat Uncles Maurice Leuvielle | |
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Parents Helene "Jean" Peters, Max Linder | ||
Colloque max linder en presence de maud linder 04 10 2012
Maud Lydie Linder (born 27 June 1924) is a French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.
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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.
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. 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 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
