Tod Slaughter
Acting
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
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Known For
The Face at the Window
1939 · Movie
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Movie
Crimes at the Dark House
1940 · Movie
Song of the Road
1937 · Movie
The Greed of William Hart
1948 · Movie
A Ghost for Sale
1952 · Movie
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Movie
King of the Underworld
1952 · Movie
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937 · Movie
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 · Movie
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946 · Movie
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Movie