Tod Slaughter
1885-03-19 (1885)Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UKActing
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
Known For
The Curse of the Wraydons
MOVIE • 1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
MOVIE • 1946
Crimes at the Dark House
MOVIE • 1940
The Face at the Window
MOVIE • 1939
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
MOVIE • 1936
The Ticket of Leave Man
MOVIE • 1937
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
MOVIE • 1935
It's Never Too Late to Mend
MOVIE • 1937
Murder at the Grange
MOVIE • 1952
Darby and Joan
MOVIE • 1937
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
MOVIE • 1936
A Ghost for Sale
MOVIE • 1952
The Greed of William Hart
MOVIE • 1948
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
MOVIE • 1938
Bothered by a Beard
MOVIE • 1945
Tod Slaughter at Home
MOVIE • 1936
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
MOVIE • 1954
London After Dark
MOVIE • 1926