Browning joined a traveling circus while still a teenager, performing as a clown and contortionist. In 1915 he began acting at the Biograph studio and appeared in the modern sequence of D.W. Griffith's classic Intolerance; he also served as one of Griffith's assistants on that monumental project. Browning began directing in 1917, frequently co-writing his films. His first film with actor Lon Chaney, The Unholy Three, was a hit and led to several memorable silent melodramas with the great character actor, including The Unknown, London After Midnight (which Browning remade in 1935 as Mark Of The Vampire), and West Of Zanzibar. By the 1930s Browning was specializing in horror, and directed two classics of the era: Dracula with Bela Lugosi, and the astounding Freaks. The latter, a shocker set among the freaks of a traveling sideshow, was far too disturbing for its time and was quickly yanked from theaters; only in the 1960s did the film come to be hailed as a masterpiece.
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Inside Job
Screen Story |
1946 | |||
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Miracles for Sale
Director |
1939 | |||
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The Devil Doll
Director, Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Mark of the Vampire
Director |
1935 | |||
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Fast Workers
Director |
1933 | |||
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Freaks
Director, Producer |
1932 | |||
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Dracula
Director |
1931 | |||
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Iron Man
Director |
1931 | |||
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Outside the Law
Director, Screenwriter |
1930 | |||
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Paid
Director |
1930 | |||
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The Thirteenth Chair
Director, Producer |
1929 | |||
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Where East Is East
Director, Screenwriter |
1929 | |||
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The Big City
Director |
1928 | |||
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West of Zanzibar
Director |
1928 | |||
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London After Midnight
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1927 | |||
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The Show
Director |
1927 | |||
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The Unknown
Director |
1927 | |||
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The Black Bird
Director, Screenwriter |
1926 | |||
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The Road to Mandalay
Director |
1926 | |||
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Dollar Down
Director |
1925 | |||
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Mystic
Director |
1925 | |||
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The Unholy Three
Director |
1925 | |||
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Dangerous Flirt
Director |
1924 | |||
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Silk Stocking Sal
Director |
1924 | |||
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Day of Faith
Director |
1923 | |||
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Drifting
Director |
1923 | |||
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White Tiger
Director, Screen Story |
1923 | |||
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Man under Cover
Director |
1922 | |||
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Under Two Flags
Director, Screenwriter |
1922 | |||
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Wise Kid
Director |
1922 | |||
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No Woman Knows
Director, Screenwriter |
1921 | |||
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Outside the Law
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1921 | |||
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Virgin of Stamboul
Director |
1920 | |||
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Bonnie, Bonnie Lassie
Director |
1919 | |||
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Set Free
Director |
1919 | |||
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The Exquisite Thief
Director |
1919 | |||
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The Petal on the Current
Director |
1919 | |||
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Unpainted Woman
Director |
1919 | |||
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Wicked Darling
Director |
1919 | |||
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Brazen Beauty
Director |
1918 | |||
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Eyes of Mystery
Director |
1918 | |||
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Legion of Death
Director |
1918 | |||
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Revenge
Director |
1918 | |||
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The Deciding Kiss
Director |
1918 | |||
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Which Woman?
Director |
1918 | |||
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Hands Up!
Director |
1917 | |||
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Jim Bludso
Director |
1917 | |||
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Jury of Fate
Director |
1917 | |||
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Love Sublime
Director, Screenwriter |
1917 | |||
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Peggy, the Will O' the Wisp
Director |
1917 | |||
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Atta Boy's Last Race
Screenwriter |
1916 | |||
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Everybody's Doing It
Director |
1916 | |||
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Intolerance
Actor, First Assistant Director, Screenwriter |
1916 | |||
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Puppets
Director |
1916 | |||
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Sunshine Dad
Screenwriter |
1916 | |||
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The Deadly Glass of Beer
Director |
1916 | |||
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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
Screenwriter |
1916 | |||
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An Image of the Past
Director |
1915 | |||
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Little Marie
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Burned Hand
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Electric Alarm
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Highbinders
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Living Death
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Lucky Transfer
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Slave Girl
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Spell of the Poppy
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Story of a Story
Director |
1915 | |||
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The Woman From Warrens
Director |
1915 |
