Tod Browning
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Charles Albert Browning
- Born:
- 1880-07-12, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Died:
- 1962-10-06, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
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). Working later on as a director, he had his first success with The Unholy Three (1925) (after about 25 unimportant pictures) which had his typical style of a mixture of fantasy, mystery and horror. His biggest hit was the classic Dracula (1931), in which he also appears as the voice of the harbor master.
