Acting
Tod Slaughter
Acting · Born 1885-03-19 · Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
Tod Slaughter took to the stage in 1905 and made a name for himself as the star villain of numerous Victorian melodramas which he toured around England. Many of these were filmed cheaply in the 30s and 40s by quota-quickie tzar George King. His ham performances are perfectly suited to the material and the best of his films give the impression that if the Victorians could have made features they would have looked like this
Credits · 19
FilmPuzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954 · Sweeney Todd
FilmA Ghost for Sale
1952 · Caretaker
FilmMurder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
FilmKing of the Underworld
1952 · Terence Reilly
FilmThe Greed of William Hart
1948 · William Hart
FilmThe Curse of the Wraydons
1946 · Philip Wraydon
FilmBothered by a Beard
1945 · Sweeney Todd
FilmCrimes at the Dark House
1940 · The False Sir Percival Glyde
FilmThe Face at the Window
1939 · Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
FilmSexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 · Michael Larron
FilmPots of Plots
1938 · Tod Slaughter
FilmThe Ticket of Leave Man
1937 · The Tiger
Song of the Road
FilmSong of the Road
1937 · Dan Lorenzo
FilmIt's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 · Squire John Meadows
FilmDarby and Joan
1937 · Mr. Templeton
FilmTod Slaughter at Home
1936 · Tod Slaughter
FilmThe Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Stephen Hawke
FilmSweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Sweeney Todd
FilmMaria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Squire William Corder