Maud-Lydié Marcelle Leuvielle,[1] better known as Maud Linder (27 June 1924 – 25 October 2017), was a French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.
Maud Linder was born in 1924 as the only daughter of silent film star Max Linder (legal name Gabriel Leuvielle) and his wife Hélène Peters.
[2][3] Raised first by her paternal grandparents, and later by her maternal grandmother, at age 20 she saw one of her father's movies for the first time and decided to make his works accessible to the public again.
In 1983 Maud Linder made a documentary film titled The Man in the Silk Hat, about the life and career of her father.
Linder also worked as a journalist and, in the 1950s and 1960s, as an assistant director, mostly for the filmmaker Jean-Paul Le Chanois.