Tod Slaughter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1885
- Died
- February 19, 1956 (aged 70)
- Birthplace
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
Known For
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Face at the Window
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Crimes at the Dark House
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
It's Never Too Late to Mend
The Greed of William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
Murder at the Grange
She's My Darling
Filmography
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Movie · as Sweeney Todd
A Ghost for Sale
Movie · as Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
Movie · as Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
King of the Underworld
Movie · as Terence Reilly
Dark Passage
Movie · as Terence Reilly
The Case of the Green Eye
Movie · as Terence Reilly
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
Movie · as Terence Reilly
Reilly at Bay
Movie · as Terrence Reilly
The Showdown
Movie · as Terence Reilly
Spring-Heeled Jack
Movie · as Philip Wraydon
The Greed of William Hart
Movie · as William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
Movie · as Philip Wraydon, The Chief
Bothered by a Beard
Movie · as Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
Movie · as The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window
Movie · as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Movie · as Michael Larron
Pots of Plots
Movie · as Tod Slaughter
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Movie · as Squire John Meadows
The Ticket of Leave Man
Movie · as The Tiger
She's My Darling
Movie · as Mr. Templeton
Song of the Road
Movie · as Dan Lorenzo
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie · as Sweeney Todd
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Movie · as Stephen Hawke
Tod Slaughter at Home
Movie · as Tod Slaughter
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Movie · as Squire William Corder
London After Dark
Movie