- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1885
- Place of Birth
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
- Died
- February 19, 1956
Tod Slaughter
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
Filmography
moviePuzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954 · Sweeney Todd
movieA Ghost for Sale
1952 · Caretaker
movieMurder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
movieKing of the Underworld
1952 · Terence Reilly
Spring-Heeled Jack
movieSpring-Heeled Jack
1950 · Philip Wraydon, Producer
movieThe Greed of William Hart
1948 · William Hart
movieThe Curse of the Wraydons
1946 · Philip Wraydon, The Chief
movieBothered by a Beard
1945 · Sweeney Todd
movieCrimes at the Dark House
1940 · The False Sir Percival Glyde
movieThe Face at the Window
1939 · Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
movieSexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 · Michael Larron
moviePots of Plots
1938 · Tod Slaughter
movieThe Ticket of Leave Man
1937 · The Tiger
Song of the Road
movieSong of the Road
1937 · Dan Lorenzo
movieIt's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 · Squire John Meadows
movieDarby and Joan
1937 · Mr. Templeton
movieTod Slaughter at Home
1936 · Tod Slaughter
movieThe Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Stephen Hawke
movieSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Sweeney Todd
movieMaria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Squire William Corder
movieLondon After Dark
1926