Tod Browning was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films, Browning was often cited in the trade press as "the Edgar Allan Poe of cinema."
Browning in 1921
Priscilla Dean, publicity still, Outside the Law (1920)
Outside the Law, lobby poster
The Unholy Three, publicity still. L to R: Ventriloquist dummy, Lon Chaney, Tod Browning.
Dracula (1931 English-language film)
Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi in the title role. It is based on the 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is adapted from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Lugosi portrays Count Dracula, a vampire who emigrates from Transylvania to England and preys upon the blood of living victims, including a young man's fiancée.
Theatrical release poster
Bela Lugosi as Dracula
Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula
Edward Van Sloan (Van Helsing) showing Lugosi a mirror.