Tod Slaughter
Birthday
1885/03/19
Day of death
1956/02/19 (70 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
Also know as
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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
Acting
(1939) The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
(1926) London After Dark
as ---
(1940) Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
(1936) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
(1937) It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
(1935) Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder
(1936) The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
as Stephen Hawke
(1948) The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
(1937) The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
(1938) Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
(1946) The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon
(1945) Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
(1954) Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
(1937) Darby and Joan
as Mr. Templeton
(1936) Tod Slaughter at Home
as Tod Slaughter
(1938) Pots of Plots
as Tod Slaughter
(1937) Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo
(1952) A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
(1950) Spring-Heeled Jack
as Philip Wraydon
(1952) Murder at the Grange
as ---
(1952) King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
(1946) The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief