Tod Browning

Tod Browning was born on Jul 12, 1880 in USA. Tod Browning's big-screen debut came with Atta Boy's Last Race directed by George Siegmann in 1916. Tod Browning is known for Freaks directed by Tod Browning, Wallace Ford stars as Phroso and Leila Hyams as Venus. Tod Browning has got 2 awards and 2 nominations so far. The most recent award Tod Browning achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Tod Browning plays is London After Midnight which will be released on Nov 01, 2002.

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 Intolérance (1916). Working later on as a director, he had his first success with Le club des 3 (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.