Tod Slaughter
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
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
Sweeney Todd
The Face at the Window
1939
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
The False Sir Percival Glyde
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
Squire William Corder
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
The Tiger
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
Stephen Hawke
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
Michael Larron
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
Squire John Meadows
The Greed of William Hart
1948
William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
Philip Wraydon
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
The Chief
Murder at the Grange
1952
Darby and Joan
1937
Mr. Templeton
London After Dark
1926
Bothered by a Beard
1945
Sweeney Todd
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954
Sweeney Todd
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936
Tod Slaughter
Pots of Plots
1938
Tod Slaughter
A Ghost for Sale
1952
Caretaker