Acting
Tod Slaughter
EN, XX cinema · 26 credits
Born
19 March 1885
Died
19 February 1956 (aged 70)
Birthplace
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
Known for
Filmography
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
as Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
Dark Passage
as Terence Reilly
The Case of the Green Eye
as Terence Reilly
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
as Terence Reilly
Reilly at Bay
as Terrence Reilly
The Showdown
as Terence Reilly
Spring-Heeled Jack
1950
Spring-Heeled Jack
as Philip Wraydon, Producer
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon, as The Chief
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
Pots of Plots
as Tod Slaughter
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
She's My Darling
as Mr. Templeton
Song of the Road
1937
Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
as Stephen Hawke
Tod Slaughter at Home
as Tod Slaughter
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder
