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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, 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).
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).
Oct 17, 2023 · Tod Browning, who claimed he’d left his Kentucky home as a teen to join a traveling carnival, knew what “dropping out” really meant. But even before that watershed screening in Venice, there were those who felt a deep connection with Browning’s vision, who saw him as “a master of atmospheric chillers that aimed at far more than the ...
Mar 17, 2023 · Tod Browning (1880–1962) ranks among the most original and enigmatic filmmakers of his time. Born Charles Albert Browning, Jr., son of a middle-class family, he ran away from his Kentucky home at age 16 to join the circus, where he took jobs as a barker, a contortionist, a clown, and a somnambulist buried alive in a box with its own ...
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.
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 ...
