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