
Actor
Tod Slaughter
Born 1885 · Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
Acting

Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd · 1945

Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd · 1954

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd · 1936

Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter · 1938

A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker · 1952

Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde · 1940

The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo · 1939

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder · 1935

The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger · 1937
Song of the Road
Dan Lorenzo · 1937

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke · 1936

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron · 1938

It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows · 1937

Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter · 1936

Darby and Joan
Mr. Templeton · 1937

The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon · 1946
King of the Underworld
Terence Reilly · 1952

The Greed of William Hart
William Hart · 1948
Spring-Heeled Jack
Philip Wraydon · 1950