Max Linder

Acting
1890-05-19
Sweden

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Casablanca

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
DramaRomance

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

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#2Gilda

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
RomanceDramaThriller

A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.

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#3Nightmare Alley

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Man in Spode Room (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
DramaThrillerCrime

A roustabout joins a traveling carny and schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband.

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#4Kitty Foyle

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Chauffeur (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
DramaRomance

A hard-working, white-collar girl falls in love with a young socialite, but meets with his family's disapproval.

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#5Mr. Lucky

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Gambler (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
ComedyRomanceCrime

A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.

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#6My Favorite Wife

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyRomance

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

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#7The Naughty Nineties

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m as Riverboat Gambler (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

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#8The Locket

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Party Guest (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaCrimeThriller

A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.

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#9Watch on the Rhine

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Embassy Party Guest (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaThriller

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

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#10Here Comes Mr. Jordan

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m as Board Member (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyFantasyRomance

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

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#11Backfire

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Canteen Customer (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
MysteryCrimeThriller

When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson, who has fallen for Corey.

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#12My Dear Secretary

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaRomanceComedy

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.

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#13Possessed

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaThrillerRomance

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

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#14The Conspirators

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Casino Patron (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
DramaRomanceThriller

A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.

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#15Deception

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m as Concertgoer (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
DramaRomance

After marrying her long lost love, a pianist finds the relationship threatened by a wealthy composer who is besotted with her.

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#16Humoresque

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Party guest (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

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#17Born to Be Bad

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Charity Ball Guest (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
Drama

Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get what she wants, including her own family. A master of manipulation, she covertly breaks off the engagement of her trusting cousin, Donna, to her fabulously wealthy beau, Curtis Carey. Once married to Curtis herself, Christabel continues her affair with novelist Nick Bradley, who knows she's evil, but loves her anyway.

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#18Second Fiddle

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m as Man in Audience (uncredited)

5.1 / 10
Comedy

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

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#19It Had to Be You

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
RomanceComedyFantasy

A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality.

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#20The Ghost Comes Home

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m as Club Patron (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

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#21Fun on a Weekend

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Party Guest (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
ComedyRomance

Shy, destitute Peter Porter meets equally impoverished Nancy Crane at a Florida beach. Inspired by Peter's belief that a person can acquire wealth simply by creating an aura of success, the outgoing Nancy convinces Peter to join her in impersonating a confident and eccentric wealthy couple. The experiment works, and the couple secure a stunning wardrobe and a lavish room at a resort. Peter panics, however, when he gets a fantastic job offer.

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#22Blondes at Work

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Juror (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Crime

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

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