Tod Slaughter

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

Movies & TV Shows

1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936) — Sweeney Todd
2. The Face at the Window (1939) — Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
3. Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935) — Squire William Corder
4. Crimes at the Dark House (1940) — The False Sir Percival Glyde
5. The Ticket of Leave Man (1937) — The Tiger
6. The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936) — Stephen Hawke
7. Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938) — Michael Larron
8. It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937) — Squire John Meadows
9. The Greed of William Hart (1948) — William Hart
10. The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) — Philip Wraydon
11. Murder at the Grange (1952)
12. Darby and Joan (1937) — Mr. Templeton
13. King of the Underworld (1952) — Terence Reilly
14. Song of the Road (1937) — Dan Lorenzo
15. Bothered by a Beard (1945) — Sweeney Todd
16. Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen (1954) — Sweeney Todd
17. Tod Slaughter at Home (1936) — Tod Slaughter
18. Pots of Plots (1938) — Tod Slaughter
19. A Ghost for Sale (1952) — Caretaker
20. London After Dark (1926)
21. Spring-Heeled Jack (1950) — Philip Wraydon