Tod Browning
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Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr., 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film actor, film producer, screenwriter, and vaudeville performer.
Browning's career spanned the silent film and sound film eras.
Browning, best known as the director of Dracula (1931), Freaks (1932), and silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney and Priscilla Dean, produced many films in a variety of genres between 1915 and 1939.
Early life
Charles Albert Browning, Jr., was born in Louisville, Kentucky, son of Charles Albert Browning and Lydia Browning's second son. Charles Albert Sr., "a bricklayer, carpenter, and machinist," provided his family with a middle-class and Baptist household. Pete "Louisville Slugger" Browning, Browning's uncle, received an honour for his classic baseball bat.
1914-1916: film directing and screenwriting: 1914-1916.
According to film historian Vivian Sobchack, "a number of one- or two-reelers can be traced to Browning from 1914 to 1916," and biographer Michael Barson traces Browning's directorial debut to the one-reeler drama The Lucky Transfer, which was first published in March 1915.
Browning's career was about to end when he stumbled his car into a railroad crossing and collided with a locomotive. Browning sustained serious injuries, as did passenger George Siegmann. Elmer Booth, a second passenger, was killed immediately. "alcoholism was to contribute to a significant depression in Browning's personal life that would influence his thematic obsessions," a film historian Jon Towlson says. The tragic event changed Browning's creative outlook, according to biographers David J. Skal and Elias Savada:
Browning's thirty-one films from 1920 to 1939 were, in fact, melodramas were rare, with few exceptions.
Browning's injuries may have barred him from ever furthering as an actor. Browning began writing screenplays for Reliance-Majestic during his long time in exile. Browning was an assistant director on the set of Intolerance (1916) as an assistant director, as well as appearing in a small part of the film's "modern story" sequence on his recovery.
1916–1919 1921 – early silent film directors.
Browning produced and directed Jim Bludso, his first full-length feature film for Fine Arts/ Triangle film companies, starring Wilfred Lucas in the title role. The story is based on a poem by John Hay, a former personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
In 1917, Browning married Alice Watson, his second wife, and the pair would remain together until her death in 1944.
Browning, who immigrated to New York in 1917, took pictures for Metro Pictures. Peggy was made by him. The Will O' the Wisp and The Jury of Fate is also included in this story. Both starred Mabel Taliaferro, the former in a dual role based on double exposure techniques that were unprecedented for the time. Vivian Sobchack, a film historian, argues that many of these films "involved the masking and impersonations that were present in later Browning films." (See Filmography below) Browning returned to Hollywood in 1918 and made three more films for Metro, the first of which featured Edith Storey: The Eyes of Suspicion and Revenge, which were all shot and released in 1918. Browning's early and profitable five-, six-, and seven-reel films established him as "a good producer and script writer."
Browning left Metro and joined Bluebird Photoplays studios (a Carl Laemmle's Universal Pictures affiliate), then moved to Universal in 1919, where he would direct a series of "wildly successful" films starring Priscilla Dean.