Tod Browning

12.07.1880, Louisville - 06.10.1962, Malibu

American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival and circus entertainer.

He directed numerous films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films, and is often cited in the trade press as the Edgar Allan Poe of cinema.

Browning's career spanned the silent and sound film eras. He is known as the director of the films Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932), and his collaboration on silent films with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean is also known.

Filmography

Films by this director

Dracula

(USA, 1931)

Directed by: Tod Browning

PHOTOGRAPHY: Karl Freund

Synopsis:

In the carriage that travels through the Carpathians towards Transylvania during Walpurgis Night before May 1, the only passenger is lawyer and real estate agent Renfield. His task is to arrange for Count Dracula, who lives in the castle of the same name, to rent Carfax Abbey near London, where the count intends to live. When he arrives in a nearby village before going to the castle, Renfield learns at the inn that the locals believe that vampires live in the castle, and he is warned not to go...

b/w, 75'

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