Tod Browning
American film actor and director (1880-1962) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 82
Tod Browning was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films.
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1962Died6 October 19621946
Inside JobFilm, Writer1939
Miracles for SaleFilm, Director1935
Mark of the VampireFilm, Director, Writer1933
Fast WorkersFilm, Director, Producer1931
DraculaFilm, Director, Writer1929
The Thirteenth ChairFilm, Director, Producer1927
London After MidnightFilm, Director, Writer1926
The BlackbirdFilm, Director, Writer1923
DriftingFilm, Director, Writer1922
Under Two FlagsFilm, Director, Writer1920
The Virgin of StamboulFilm, Director1919
A Petal on the CurrentFilm, Director1914Bill Joins the W.W.W.'sFilm, James Hadley, the boss1880Born12 July 1880
Inside JobFilm, Writer1939Miracles for SaleFilm, Director1935Mark of the VampireFilm, Director, Writer1933Fast WorkersFilm, Director, Producer1931DraculaFilm, Director, Writer1929The Thirteenth ChairFilm, Director, Producer1927London After MidnightFilm, Director, Writer1926The BlackbirdFilm, Director, Writer1923DriftingFilm, Director, Writer1922Under Two FlagsFilm, Director, Writer1920The Virgin of StamboulFilm, Director1919A Petal on the CurrentFilm, Director1914Bill Joins the W.W.W.'sFilm, James Hadley, the boss1880Born12 July 1880Known for
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Freaks 1932
The Unknown 1927
Dracula 1931
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916
The Devil-Doll 1936
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Lionel Barrymore Tod directed Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Lon Chaney Tod directed London After Midnight (1927)
Henry B. Walthall Tod directed London After Midnight (1927)
David Butler Tod directed Bonnie Bonnie Lassie (1919)
Priscilla Dean Tod directed The Wicked Darling (1919)
Edward Dillon Directed Nell's Eugenic Wedding (1914)
Charles West Tod directed Little Marie and The Burned Hand
Rose Dione Tod produced Freaks and West of Zanzibar
E. Alyn Warren Tod directed The Unholy Three and The Devil-Doll
John George Tod directed The Unknown and Mark of the Vampire
Frederick A. Turner Tod directed The Living Death (1915)
Irving Thalberg Produced London After Midnight and The Unknown
Owen Moore Tod directed The Road to Mandalay (1926)
Eugene Pallette Tod directed The Spell of the Poppy (1915)
Miriam Cooper Tod directed The Burned Hand and The Slave Girl
Max Davidson Tod directed No Woman Knows and Puppets
Seena Owen Tod directed Little Marie and The Highbinders
Wilfred Lucas Tod directed A Love Sublime and Hands Up!
Bela Lugosi Tod produced Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Wallace Beery Tod directed The Virgin of Stamboul and Drifting
Ralph Lewis Tod produced Outside the Law (1922)
Walter Long Tod directed Little Marie and The Highbinders
Edith Storey Tod directed Revenge and The Eyes of Mystery
Bert Woodruff Tod directed A Love Sublime and Hands Up!
Filmography 40
109 credits on file
Media & music
Photos 12
Priscilla Dean, publicity still, Outside the Law (1920)
Outside the Law, lobby poster
The Unholy Three, publicity still. L to R: Ventriloquist dummy, Lon Chaney, Tod Browning.
The Blackbird (1926) publicity still. L to R, Lon Chaney as Dan Tate, Doris Lloyd as his wife Limehouse Polly.
The Road to Mandalay (1926), publicity still. L to R, director Tod Browning, actor Lon Chaney.
Director Tod Browning and actors Polly Moran and Lon Chaney (dressed as Inspector Burke), on the set of London After Midnight (1927)
Awards
About this person
Some film writers have referred to Browning as "the Edgar Allan Poe of cinema."
Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1880 to 1962 · aged 82
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