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Tod Browning

American film actor and director (1880–1962)

1.20body-of-work score · ranked #761 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
July 12, 1880 · Louisville
Died
October 6, 1962 · Santa Monica
Nationality
United States
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, film actor
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Tod Browning
Freulich (?) · Public domain

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Dracula

    1931 · United States · horror, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 2000) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Roger Ebert's Great Movies

    0.644 citations
  2. 2
    FreaksLa Monstrueuse Parade

    1932 · United States · horror, thriller, drama

    National Film Registry (inducted 1994) · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.453 citations
  3. 3
    The Devil-Doll

    1936 · United States · horror, sci-fi

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 63 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1914By the Sun's Rays
  • 1915An Image of the Past
  • 1915Little Marie
  • 1915The Burned Hand
  • 1915The Electric Alarm
  • 1915The Highbinders
  • 1915The Living Death
  • 1915The Lucky Transfer
  • 1915The Slave Girl
  • 1915The Spell of the Poppy
  • 1915The Story of a Story
  • 1915The Woman from Warren's
  • 1916Everybody's Doing It
  • 1916Puppets
  • 1916The Fatal Glass of Beer
  • 1917A Love Sublime
  • 1917Hands Up!
  • 1917Jim Bludso
  • 1917Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp
  • 1917The Jury of Fate
  • 1918Revenge
  • 1918Set Free
  • 1918The Brazen Beauty
  • 1918The Deciding Kiss
  • 1918The Eyes of Mystery
  • 1918The Legion of Death
  • 1918Which Woman?
  • 1919Bonnie Bonnie Lassie
  • 1919The Exquisite Thief
  • 1919The Petal on the Current
  • 1919The Unpainted Woman
  • 1919The Wicked Darling
  • 1920Outside the Law
  • 1920The Virgin of Stamboul
  • 1921No Woman Knows
  • 1922Man Under Cover
  • 1922The Wise Kid
  • 1922Under Two Flags
  • 1923Drifting
  • 1923The Day of Faith
  • 1923White Tiger
  • 1924Silk Stocking Sal
  • 1924The Dangerous Flirt
  • 1925Dollar Down
  • 1925The Mystic
  • 1925The Unholy Three
  • 1926The Blackbird
  • 1926The Road to Mandalay
  • 1927London After Midnight
  • 1927The Show
  • 1927The Unknown
  • 1928The Big City
  • 1928West of Zanzibar
  • 1929The Thirteenth Chair
  • 1929Where East Is East
  • 1930Outside the Law
  • 1931Dracula
  • 1931Iron Man
  • 1932Freaks
  • 1933Fast Workers
  • 1935Mark of the Vampire
  • 1936The Devil-Doll
  • 1939Miracles for Sale