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
Song of the Road
1937 · Movie
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Movie
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Movie
A Ghost for Sale
1952 · Movie
The Face at the Window
1939 · Movie
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946 · Movie
London After Dark
1926 · Movie
Spring-Heeled Jack
1950 · Movie
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954 · Movie
Pots of Plots
1938 · Movie
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 · Movie
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936 · Movie