Tod Slaughter
Actor
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
Filmography
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo 1939
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde 1940
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder 1935
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger 1937
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
as Stephen Hawke 1936
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron 1938
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows 1937
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart 1948
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon 1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief 1946
Murder at the Grange
1952
Darby and Joan
as Mr. Templeton 1937
King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly 1952
Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo 1937
London After Dark
1926
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd 1945