Acting
Tod Slaughter
1885 · Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
21 films
Bio
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
Song of the Road
Dan Lorenzo
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
Spring-Heeled Jack
Philip Wraydon
Murder at the Grange
A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
Darby and Joan
Mr. Templeton
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke