Tod Slaughter
Acting · Born Mar 19, 1885 · Died Feb 19, 1956 (70) · 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
Films
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
195410.0
The Showdown
1952
Dark Passage
1952
Reilly at Bay
1952
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
1952
A Ghost for Sale
19529.0
Murder at the Grange
19526.5
The Case of the Green Eye
1952
King of the Underworld
19526.0
The Greed of William Hart
19485.2
The Curse of the Wraydons
19465.8
Bothered by a Beard
194510.0
Crimes at the Dark House
19406.2
The Face at the Window
19395.7
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
19386.0
Pots of Plots
19389.0
The Ticket of Leave Man
19375.6
It's Never Too Late to Mend
19376.1
She's My Darling
19376.3
Tod Slaughter at Home
19367.0
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
19365.7
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
19365.7
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
19355.6
London After Dark
1926