Tod Slaughter
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
19 titles
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Curse of the Wraydons
Crimes at the Dark House
The Greed of William Hart
The Face at the Window
The Ticket of Leave Man
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Murder at the Grange
A Ghost for Sale
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Darby and Joan
Bothered by a Beard
Tod Slaughter at Home
Pots of Plots
London After Dark
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
