Editing Max Linder (section)

==Legacy==
Upon receiving the news of Linder's death, Chaplin is reported to have closed his studio for one day out of respect.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511729/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#trivia Max Linder profile], imdb.com; accessed 21 January 2015.</ref>

In the ensuing years, his jealous and alcoholic elder brother won custody of sixteen-month-old heiress [[Maud Linder]] to get the girl's fortune, before her grandmother (Hélène's mother) legally fought back and took over. Meanwhile, many of his films were lost because most reels had been buried unprotected in a garden. Max Linder had been relegated to little more than a footnote in film history until a compilation film titled ''Laugh with Max Linder'' premiered at the [[Venice Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/4513|title=Films, TV and people|work=British Film Institute|access-date=2012-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804130230/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/event/4513|archive-date=2011-08-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was theatrically released. The film was a compilation of Linder's last three films made in Hollywood and its release was supervised by [[Maud Linder]].

In 1983, Maud Linder made a documentary film, ''[[The Man in the Silk Hat]]'', about Linder's life and career.<ref name=Wakeman2/> It was screened out of competition at the [[1983 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/1434/year/1983.html|title=VISSZAESOK|work=Festival de Cannes|date=27 May 2023 }}</ref> 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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prixhenrilanglois.org/?page_id=241|title=借家って何？貸家との違いを紹介します！(What is rented house? We will introduce the difference between the rental!)|language=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714185631/http://www.prixhenrilanglois.org/?page_id=241|archive-date=2014-07-14}}</ref> for her work to promote her father's legacy. In his honor, ''Lycée Max Linder'', a public school in the city of [[Libourne]] in the [[Gironde]] département near his birthplace was given his name in 1981.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amaelmaxlinder.fr/la-m%C3%A9moire-du-lyc%C3%A9e/historique/ |title = Historique - Site d'AMAEL Libourne}}</ref>

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on [[slapstick]] films is that the genre shifted from the "knockabout" comedies made by such people as [[Mack Sennett]] and [[André Deed]] to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, [[Buster Keaton]], [[Harold Lloyd]], and others. Linder's influence on Chaplin is apparent both from Chaplin's sometimes borrowing gags or entire plot-lines from Linder's films, as well as from a famous signed photo that Chaplin sent Linder which read: "To Max, the Professor, from his disciple, Charlie Chaplin."<ref name=Wakeman2/> Mack Sennett and [[King Vidor]] also singled out Linder as a great influence on their directing careers. His high society characterizations as "Max" also influenced such actors as [[Adolphe Menjou]] and [[Raymond Griffith]].<ref name=Wakeman2/>

In his heyday, Linder had two major rivals in France: [[Léonce Perret]] and [[Charles Prince (actor)|Charles Prince]]. Perret later became a successful director, but his early career included a series of "Léonce" slapstick shorts that were popular but nowhere near the stature of Linder's films. Charles Prince, on the other hand, was gaining popularity during his career and was nearly equal to Linder by the beginning of [[World War I]]. Prince's screen persona was "Rigadin", who like "Max" was a bumbling [[bourgeois]] socialite who always got into trouble. Both Linder and Prince were employed by [[Pathé]] in the early 1910s and they often used the same story lines, sets and directors. Years after both comedians' careers were long over, Linder has received several revivals in interest while Charles Prince remains mostly forgotten.<ref name=Wakeman2/>