Person

Tod Slaughter

Acting · 1885–1956 · 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

• Song of the Road

  Dan Lorenzo

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  The Curse of the Wraydons

  Philip Wraydon

• Spring-Heeled Jack

  Philip Wraydon

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  A Ghost for Sale

  Caretaker

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  Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen

  Sweeney Todd

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  The Face at the Window

  Chevalier Lucio del Gardo

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  Tod Slaughter at Home

  Tod Slaughter

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  It's Never Too Late to Mend

  Squire John Meadows

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  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

  Sweeney Todd

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  London After Dark

  1926

• 1954Puzzle Corner Number FourteenSweeney Todd
• 1952A Ghost for SaleCaretaker
• 1952Murder at the Grange
• 1952King of the UnderworldTerence Reilly
• 1950Spring-Heeled JackPhilip Wraydon
• 1948The Greed of William HartWilliam Hart
• 1946The Curse of the WraydonsPhilip Wraydon
• 1945Bothered by a BeardSweeney Todd
• 1940Crimes at the Dark HouseThe False Sir Percival Glyde
• 1939The Face at the WindowChevalier Lucio del Gardo
• 1938Sexton Blake and the Hooded TerrorMichael Larron
• 1938Pots of PlotsTod Slaughter
• 1937The Ticket of Leave ManThe Tiger
• 1937Song of the RoadDan Lorenzo
• 1937It's Never Too Late to MendSquire John Meadows
• 1937Darby and JoanMr. Templeton
• 1936Tod Slaughter at HomeTod Slaughter
• 1936The Crimes of Stephen HawkeStephen Hawke
• 1936Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetSweeney Todd
• 1935Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red BarnSquire William Corder
• 1926London After Dark