Actor
Tod Slaughter
March 19, 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
Often works with
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D.J. Williams
4 titles together
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
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Norman Pierce
4 titles together
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, The Ticket of Leave Man, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
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Marjorie Taylor
4 titles together
The Face at the Window, The Ticket of Leave Man, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Patrick Barr
3 titles together
Murder at the Grange, King of the Underworld, A Ghost for Sale
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Tucker McGuire
3 titles together
Murder at the Grange, King of the Underworld, A Ghost for Sale
John Singer
2 titles together
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, It's Never Too Late to Mend
Full filmography · 19
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
1954
Murder at the Grange
cast
1952
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
1952King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
1952
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon and as The Chief
1946
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
1945
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
19395.7
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
1938
Pots of Plots
as Tod Slaughter
1938
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
1937Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo
1937