Tod Slaughter
Born
March 19, 1885
Died
February 19, 1956 (70 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
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
Known For
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd
1954
A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
1952
Murder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
Terence Reilly
1952
Spring-Heeled Jack
Philip Wraydon
1950
The Greed of William Hart
William Hart
1948
The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon
1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Chief
1946
Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd
1945
Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940
The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1939
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
1938
Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter
1938
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger
1937
Song of the Road
Dan Lorenzo
1937
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
1937
Darby and Joan
Mr. Templeton
1937
Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter
1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
1936
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
1936
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
1935
London After Dark
1926