Acting
Tod Slaughter
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UKBorn 1885
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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TV Shows
Known For
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
1936
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1939
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
1938
Murder at the Grange
1952
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
1937
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
1952
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder
1935
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon
1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief
1946
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
1937
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
1948