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Tod Browning
Director 1880 - 1962

Tod Browning

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

12 titles
Miracles for Sale

Miracles for Sale

Tod Browning 1939 1h 11m

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

The Devil-Doll

The Devil-Doll

Tod Browning 1936 1h 18m 8.6

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course).

Mark of the Vampire

Mark of the Vampire

Tod Browning 1935 1h 7.0

Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire believed to haunt the local village. Now his daughter Irena is the count's next target. Enter Professor Zelen, an expert on vampires who's sent in to prevent her death. At the same time, secrets are revealed surrounding the circumstances of Sir Karell's death.

Freaks

Freaks

Tod Browning 1932 1h 4m 8.5

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Dracula

Dracula

Tod Browning 1931 1h 14m 7.2

The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film from Bela Lugosi.

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar

Tod Browning 1928 1h 10m

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

The Unknown

The Unknown

Tod Browning 1927 1h 8m 8.2

Lon Chaney is carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford is the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.

The Show

The Show

Tod Browning 1927 1h 16m

A Hungarian carnival troupe follows a young girl who reforms a tearaway after her old suitor tried to kill him with a poisonous lizard.

The Blackbird

The Blackbird

Tod Browning 1926 1h 26m

Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

The Unholy Three

The Unholy Three

Tod Browning 1925 1h 26m

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

The Mystic

The Mystic

Tod Browning 1925 1h 13m

Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.

Outside the Law

Outside the Law

Tod Browning 1920 1h 16m 6.0

Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…

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