Tod Slaughter
Acting Born: 1885-03-19 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
Movies
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Darby and Joan
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Murder at the Grange
Song of the Road
The Greed of William Hart
Crimes at the Dark House
King of the Underworld
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Curse of the Wraydons
A Ghost for Sale
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Face at the Window
London After Dark
Pots of Plots
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen