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Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer.
Tod Browning. Director: Dracula. 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).
Tod Browning, American director who specialized in films of the grotesque and macabre. He was known for his association with silent star Lon Chaney and for his proclivity for outre fantasy and horror pictures—notably Dracula (1931), starring Bela Lugosi, and the cult classic Freaks (1932).
Jul 18, 2024 · Tod Browning was considered one of the most successful silent movie directors. When the producers met with Thalberg, they showed him a script of the film that Browning wanted to make. A look of revulsion came over Thalberg’s face, and he reportedly put his head in his hands and replied with an air of resignation:
Tod Browning (12 July 1880 – 6 October 1962) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter. Browning's career spanned the silent and talkie eras. Best-known as the director of Dracula (1931), the cult classic Freaks (1932), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide range ...
Jul 12, 2011 · Director Tod Browning made some of early cinema’s spookiest movies, including the classic 1931 version of “Dracula.” On the day he was born, we take a look at the filmmaker’s life and work…
Tod Browning. Director: Dracula. 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).
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.
Jul 12, 2018 · The offbeat cinema of Tod Browning (1880-1962) offers an astonishing pulp-fiction assortment of carnies, crooks, deadbeats, impostors, lowlifes, miscreants, magicians, pickpockets, pimps, vamps, vampires and weirdos. He specialised in the outré, the macabre and the perverse, and successfully capitalised on the appetite for lurid stories.
A pioneering director who helped create the horror film genre, Tod Browning made his mark on cinema via his 10-film collaboration with actor Lon Chaney, the first sound version of "Dracula" (1931...
