Tod Browning

Filmmakers

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter and vaudeville performer. Browning’s career spanned the silent film and sound film eras. Best known as the director of Dracula (1931), with Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan; Freaks (1932), with Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova and Roscoe Ates; and silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres, between 1915 and 1939.

Other notable films include The Unholy Three (1925), with Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, and Harry Earles; The Unknown (1927), with Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, and Nick De Ruiz; Outside the Law (1930), with Edward G. Robinson and Mary Nolan; Iron Man (1931), with Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, and Jean Harlow; Mark of the Vampire (1935), with Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, and Jean Hersholt; The Devil-Doll (1936), with Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan; and Miracles for Sale (1939), with Robert Young and Florence Rice.

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  • The Lucky Transfer (1915)
  • The Slave Girl (1915)
  • An Image of the Past (1915)
  • The Highbinders (1915)
  • The Story of a Story (1915)
  • The Spell of the Poppy (1915)
  • The Electric Alarm (1915)
  • The Living Death (1915)
  • The Burned Hand (1915)
  • The Woman from Warren’s (1915)
  • Little Marie (1915)
  • Intolerance (1916) – directed by D.W. Griffith – uncredited actor
  • The Fatal Glass of Beer (1916)
  • Everybody’s Doing It (1916)
  • Puppets (1916)
  • Jim Bludso (1917)
  • A Love Sublime (1917)
  • Hands Up! (1917)
  • Peggy, the Will O’ the Wisp (1917)
  • The Jury of Fate (1917)
  • The Legion of Death (1918)
  • The Eyes of Mystery (1918)
  • Revenge (1918)
  • Which Woman? (1918)
  • The Deciding Kiss (1918)
  • The Brazen Beauty (1918)
  • Set Free (1918)
  • The Wicked Darling (1919)
  • The Exquisite Thief (1919)
  • The Unpainted Woman (1919)
  • The Petal on the Current (1919)
  • Bonnie Bonnie Lassie (1919)
  • The Virgin of Stamboul (1920)
  • Outside the Law (1920)
  • No Woman Knows (1921)
  • The Wise Kid (1922)
  • Man Under Cover (1922)
  • Under Two Flags (1922)
  • Drifting (1923)
  • The Day of Faith (1923)
  • White Tiger (1923)
  • The Dangerous Flirt (1924)
  • Silk Stocking Sal (1924)
  • The Unholy Three (1925)
  • The Mystic (1925)
  • Dollar Down (1925)
  • The Blackbird (1926)
  • The Road to Mandalay (1926)
  • The Show (1927)
  • The Unknown (1927)
  • London After Midnight (1927)
  • The Big City (1928)
  • West of Zanzibar (1928)
  • Where East Is East (1929)
  • The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
  • Outside the Law (1930)
  • Dracula (1931)**
  • Iron Man (1931)
  • Freaks (1932)
  • Fast Workers (1933)
  • Mark of the Vampire (1935)
  • The Devil-Doll (1936)
  • Miracles for Sale (1939)