Tod Slaughter
Known for: Actor
Born: 19 March 1885, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
Died: 19 February 1956
Credits: 26 titles
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
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
The Showdown
Dark Passage
Reilly at Bay
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
Murder at the Grange
A Ghost for Sale
The Case of the Green Eye
King of the Underworld
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Greed of William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
Bothered by a Beard
Crimes at the Dark House
The Face at the Window
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Pots of Plots
The Ticket of Leave Man
Song of the Road
It's Never Too Late to Mend
She's My Darling
Tod Slaughter at Home
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
London After Dark