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
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Movies 21
self 2
Sweeney Todd
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen (1954)
Movie
Caretaker
A Ghost for Sale (1952)
Movie
Terence Reilly
King of the Underworld (1952)
Movie
Philip Wraydon
Spring-Heeled Jack (1950)
Movie
Philip Wraydon / The Chief
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946)
Movie
Sweeney Todd
Bothered by a Beard (1945)
Movie
The False Sir Percival Glyde
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Movie
Chevalier del Gardo
The Face at the Window (1939)
Movie
Michael Larron
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Movie
The Tiger
The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
Movie
Dan Lorenzo
Song of the Road (1937)
Movie
Squire John Meadows
It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
Movie
Mr. Templeton
Darby and Joan (1937)
Movie
Stephen Hawke
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
Movie
Squire William Corder
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1885-03-19
Deathday1956-02-19 (70 years old)
Birth PlaceNewcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
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