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Tod Browning

1880 - 1962

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Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) 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's career spanned the silent and sound film eras. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tod Browning has received more than 661,432 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Tod Browning is the 1,304th most popular actor (down from 1,097th in 2019), the 2,297th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,028th in 2019) and the 629th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 660k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tod Browning ranks 1,304 out of 9,996. Before him are Alain Cuny, Victor McLaglen, Elizabeth Hurley, Jason Bateman, Bea Arthur, and Don Cheadle. After him are Billy Zane, Tom Holland, Jim Caviezel, William Sadler, Rupert Everett, and Van Heflin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Tod Browning ranks 62. Before him are Adrian Carton de Wiart, Otto Meissner, John Boyd Orr, Mitsumasa Yonai, Grock, and Prince Georg of Bavaria. After him are Robert Stolz, Abram Ioffe, Jacques Thibaud, Hajime Sugiyama, Yōsuke Matsuoka, and Fethi Okyar. Among people deceased in 1962, Tod Browning ranks 60. Before him are Hu Shih, Poul Nielsen, E. E. Cummings, Henri Wallon, Prince René of Bourbon-Parma, and Emil Artin. After him are Ricardo Rodríguez, Trygve Gulbranssen, Kirsten Flagstad, Vita Sackville-West, Antoine Pevsner, and Wilhelm Ackermann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tod Browning ranks 2,297 out of 18,182. Before him are Fredric Jameson (1934), Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Jason Bateman (1969), James Levine (1943), Bea Arthur (1922), and Don Cheadle (1964). After him are Billy Zane (1966), Bernard Malamud (1914), Jim Caviezel (1968), Selena Gomez (1992), William Sadler (1950), and Van Heflin (1908).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Tod Browning ranks 629. Before him are Geraldine Page (1924), Estelle Getty (1923), Kate Jackson (1948), Jason Bateman (1969), Bea Arthur (1922), and Don Cheadle (1964). After him are Billy Zane (1966), Jim Caviezel (1968), William Sadler (1950), Van Heflin (1908), Brad Dexter (1917), and Woody Strode (1914).

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