---
name: "Tod Browning"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tod-browning"
fi1m_id: "tod-browning"
imdb_id: "nm0115218"
tmdb_id: 1496
wikidata_id: "Q51476"
roles: ["Director","Writer","Producer"]
born: "12 July 1880"
died: "6 October 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T01:01:28.155225+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Tod Browning

## Identity

Tod Browning

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tod-browning
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tod-browning
- **IMDb ID:** nm0115218
- **TMDB ID:** 1496
- **Wikidata ID:** Q51476
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Browning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51476, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115218/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1496

Director and writer. Born 12 July 1880 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Died 6 October 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 12 July 1880, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- **Died:** 6 October 1962
- **Active:** 1916–1932
- **Also known as:** Charles Albert Browning, Jr.
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Irving Thalberg](https://film.one/person/irving-thalberg.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1910s 83 (1), 1930s 77 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Browning, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51476, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0115218/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1496

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages*](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md) (83)
- **Peacock:** [*Dracula*](https://film.one/film/dracula.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, on 12 July 1880, he died in Malibu, California, on 6 October 1962. He began his career in circuses and vaudeville before entering films as an actor under D. W. Griffith.

Browning contributed to the screenplay and served as second assistant director on Griffith's *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916). He directed numerous silent films in the 1920s, many in collaboration with Lon Chaney, and later worked in sound cinema. His best-known films include *Dracula* (1931) and *Freaks* (1932).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Freaks* (1932), Fi1m 79, Director, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/freaks.md)
- *Dracula* (1931), Fi1m 75, as Harbormaster (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dracula.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), Fi1m 83, Second Assistant Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md)

## Complete filmography (67)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Tod Browning, le jeu des illusions* (2016), Actor
- *London After Midnight* (2002), Story
- *Inside Job* (1946), Story
- *Miracles for Sale* (1939), Director
- *The Devil-Doll* (1936), Screenstory, Director, Producer
- *Mark of the Vampire* (1935), Producer, Director, Story
- *Fast Workers* (1933), Director, Producer
- *Freaks* (1932), Director, Producer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/freaks.md)
- *Iron Man* (1931), Director, Producer
- *Dracula* (1931), as Harbormaster (voice) (uncredited) · Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/dracula.md)
- *Outside the Law* (1930), Director, Writer
- *The Thirteenth Chair* (1929), Director, Producer
- *Where East Is East* (1929), Story, Director
- *West of Zanzibar* (1928), Director, Producer
- *The Big City* (1928), Director, Story
- *London After Midnight* (1927), Director, Story, Producer
- *The Unknown* (1927), Director, Story
- *The Show* (1927), Director, Producer
- *The Road to Mandalay* (1926), Director, Story
- *The Blackbird* (1926), Director, Story
- *The Mystic* (1925), Director, Story, Writer
- *Dollar Down* (1925), Director
- *The Unholy Three* (1925), Director, Producer
- *Silk Stocking Sal* (1924), Director
- *The Dangerous Flirt* (1924), Director
- *White Tiger* (1923), Director, Screenplay
- *The Day of Faith* (1923), Director
- *Drifting* (1923), Writer, Director
- *Under Two Flags* (1922), Director, Writer
- *Man Under Cover* (1922), Director
- *The Wise Kid* (1922), Director
- *No Woman Knows* (1921), Writer, Director
- *Outside the Law* (1921), Director, Producer, Story
- *The Virgin of Stamboul* (1920), Director, Scenario Writer
- *The Wicked Darling* (1919), Director
- *Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie* (1919), Director, Scenario Writer
- *A Petal on the Current* (1919), Director
- *The Unpainted Woman* (1919), Director
- *The Exquisite Thief* (1919), Director
- *Set Free* (1918), Writer, Director
- *The Brazen Beauty* (1918), Director
- *The Deciding Kiss* (1918), Director
- *Which Woman?* (1918), Director
- *Revenge* (1918), Director
- *The Eyes of Mystery* (1918), Director
- *The Legion of Death* (1918), Director
- *The Jury of Fate* (1917), Director
- *Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp* (1917), Director
- *Hands Up!* (1917), Director
- *A Love Sublime* (1917), Writer, Director
- *Jim Bludso* (1917), Director, Writer
- *Atta Boy's Last Race* (1916), Screenplay
- *Puppets* (1916), Director, Writer
- *Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages* (1916), as Crook (uncredited) · Screenplay, Second Assistant Director — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/intolerance-loves-struggle-throughout-the-ages.md)
- *The Mystery of the Leaping Fish* (1916), Writer
- *Sunshine Dad* (1916), Story, Screenplay
- *The Burned Hand* (1915), Director
- *The Spell of the Poppy* (1915), Director
- *The Lucky Transfer* (1915), Director
- *Bill and Ethel at the Ball* (1914), as James Hadley - the Boss
- *Ethel Has a Steady* (1914), as James Hadley - the Boss
- *Ethel's Roof Party* (1914), as James Hadley - the Boss
- *Casey's Vendetta* (1914), as Antone
- *Bill Joins the W.W.W.'s* (1914), as James Hadley, the boss
- *Bill Takes a Lady Out to Lunch... Never Again* (1914), as James Hadley
- *How Bill Squared It with His Boss* (1914), as James Hadley
- *London After Midnight*, Original Concept

## Gallery

- ![Tod Browning](https://film.one/media/person/3848095/gallery-b44b5828d900.jpg) Tod Browning — Freulich (?), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Tod_Browning_1921.jpg/1280px-Tod_Browning_1921.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tod Browning](https://film.one/media/person/3848095/gallery-d30c0adc782c.jpg) Tod Browning — Image via TMDB

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