He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

In his native France and throughout the world, Max Linder was a major comic feature and might qualify as the first true film star.

Famed Western writer Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the film also owes its origins to Brand's serial " Twelve Peers ", published in a pulp-magazine.

* 1883 – Max Linder, French pioneer of silent film ( d. 1925 )

Other notable influences based in film music include Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, David Tamkin and Franz Waxman.

He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ).

The first public motion-picture film presentation in the world, though, belongs to Max and Emil Skladanowsky of Berlin, who projected with their apparatus " Bioscop ", a flickerfree duplex construction, November 1 through 31, 1895.

A scene in les Debuts de Max Linder au cinematographe ( 1910 ) showing a Pathé film crew at work.

The song's title derives from the line " when two great warrior tribes go to war ", from the film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( the line is also spoken by Holly Johnson at the beginning of the session version ).

In 2009, Lewis traveled to the Cannes Film Festival to announce his return to cinema, after a 13 year absence, for the film Max Rose, his first leading role since Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy.

Klaus Maria Brandauer ( born 22 June 1943 ) is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.

Plans for a cinema version titled Max Headroom for President were mentioned in the media but the film was never produced.

* Spin, a short film by Max Hattler ( 2010 )

Regarding Gilliam's theme of modernity's struggle between spirituality and rationality whereas the individual may become dominated by a tyrannical, soulless machinery of disenchanted society, film critic Keith James Hamel observed a specific affinity of Gilliam's movies with the writings of economic historian Arnold Toynbee and sociologist Max Weber, specifically the latter's concept of the Iron cage of modern rationality.

The result was Batman Returns which featured Michael Keaton returning as the Dark Knight, and a new triad of villains: Danny DeVito ( as the Penguin ), Michelle Pfeiffer ( as Catwoman ) and Christopher Walken as Max Shreck, an evil corporate tycoon and original character created for the film ( similar to Superman IIIs Ross Webster ).

In the 2011 film Island, the character Max is a re-imagining of Piggy and is played by actor Robbie Curran.

Notable European film stars of the period include Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Max von Sydow, and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

* March 25 – Max Ophüls, German film director and writer ( b. 1902 )

** Max Wagner, Mexican-born American film actor ( died 1975 )

* July 19 – Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer ( Betty Boop ) ( d. 1972 )

* December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer ( b. 1888 )

** Max Linder, French silent film actor ( b. 1883 ) ( suicide )

* The film 20 Minutes into the Future ( 1985 ), and the spin-off TV show Max Headroom, revolved around television mainly based on live, often candid, broadcasts.

* Drift, 2007 experimental short film by Max Hattler

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.