Tod Browning

Tod Browning was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1880. He left his family at sixteen, by his own account, to follow the travelling fairs, where he was a contortionist, a clown and, in one act, a hypnotised corpse who was buried alive. He moved into cinema as an actor in 1909, then Griffith hired him at Biograph in 1913. A director from 1915, he made more than thirty feature films, ten of them with Lon Chaney. He stopped making films in 1939 and died in Malibu in 1962; Variety had already declared him dead by mistake years earlier.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaDraculaTod Browning · 1931Cinema
• CinemaFreaksTod Browning · 1932Cinema