Tod Browning

Born

July 12, 1880

Died

1962

From

Louisville, Kentucky, USA·Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Also:
Actor
Writer

Credits on file

Decades active

In short · Directed for 10 decades — 58 credits.

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Biography

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916). Working later on as a director, he had his first success with The Unholy Three (1925) (after about 25 unimportant pictures) which had his typical style of a mixture of fantasy, mystery and horror. His biggest hit was the classic Dracula (1931), in which he also appears as the voice of the harbor master.