Tod Slaughter
Acting
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
1954Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd
1952A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
1952Murder at the Grange
1948The Greed of William Hart
William Hart
1946The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon
1945Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd
1940Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
1939The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1938Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
1938Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter
1937It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
1937The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger
1937Darby and Joan
Mr. Templeton
1936Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
1936The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
1936Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter
1935Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
1926London After Dark