- Browning's third and final collaboration with Bela Lugosi, Mark of the Vampire, was a remake of a 1927 film with Lon Chaney entitled London After Midnight.
- Browning himself provided the off-screen voice of the harbor master in Dracula.
- Browning is buried at Angelus Rosedale Cemetary in Los Angeles.
- Browning has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard.
- After his wife's death in 1944, Browning spent his latter years as a recluse at his home in Malibu.
- Browning's 1932 film Freaks was so controversial that it was banned in Great Britain for over 30 years.
- Browning made three films with Bela Lugosi: The Thirteenth Chair, Dracula, and Mark of the Vampire.
- Browning's final film was Miracles for Sale released in 1939.
- Browning's first talkie was The Thirteenth Chair released in 1929. It starred Bela Lugosi.
- Browning's directoral debut was the 1917 silent film Jim Bludso.
- Browning was involved in a serious auto accident in 1915 in which he drove an automobile into a train. A passenger in his car was killed and Browning himself suffered a shattered right leg and the loss of his front teeth.
- Browning broke into movies as an assistant to pioneer film director D. W. Griffith.
- Browning performed as both a clown and a contortionist during his circus years.
- Browning ran away from home at the age of 16 and joined a traveling carnival.
- Browning made nine movies with Lon Chaney including Chaney's first and only talkie, The Unholy Three.
- Browning's trademarks in his movies were circuses/carnivals and people with deformities.
- After his second wife's death in 1944, Variety magazine erroneously published an obituary for Browning.
- Browning was married to his second wife, Alice, from 1911 until her death in 1944.
- Browning was married to Amy Louise Stevens from 1906 until they divorced in 1910.
- David J. Skal and Elias Savada published a biography of Tod Browning in 1995 entitled Dark Carnival.
