In 1953 Browning was tasked with assisting a film crew scouting locations for an upcoming Universal horror film.
Particularly memorable is a sequence in which Brownings Gill-man swims just below the films heroine played by Julia Adams.
By the early 1960s Browning would branch out into other water-related aspects of the film and TV industries.
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In 1963, he ad writer Jack Cowden co-created a story about a highly intelligent bottlenose dolphin.
A TV series adapted from the film would run on NBC from 1964-67.
Child actor Tommy Norden portrayed the wardens son Bud, who befriended the title mammal.
Ricou Browning and cameraman Scotty Welbourne shooting ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’Everett Collection
Around the same time, Browning directed episodes of CBSGentle Ben, adding a bear to the TV menagerie.
