Tod Slaughter
Acting • Born 1885-03-19 – Died 1956-02-19
Biography
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
22 credits
The Face at the Window
Movie • 1939
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
London After Dark
Movie • 1926
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie • 1936
Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
Movie • 1940
The False Sir Percival Glyde
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Movie • 1937
Squire John Meadows
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Movie • 1935
Squire William Corder
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Movie • 1936
Stephen Hawke
The Greed of William Hart
Movie • 1948
William Hart
The Ticket of Leave Man
Movie • 1937
The Tiger
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Movie • 1938
Michael Larron
The Curse of the Wraydons
Movie • 1946
Philip Wraydon
Bothered by a Beard
Movie • 1945
Sweeney Todd
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Movie • 1954
Sweeney Todd
Darby and Joan
Movie • 1937
Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home
Movie • 1936
Tod Slaughter
Pots of Plots
Movie • 1938
Tod Slaughter
Song of the Road
Movie • 1937
Dan Lorenzo
A Ghost for Sale
Movie • 1952
Caretaker
Spring-Heeled Jack
Movie • 1950
Philip Wraydon
Murder at the Grange
Movie • 1952
King of the Underworld
Movie • 1952
Terence Reilly
The Curse of the Wraydons
Movie • 1946
The Chief