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