Tod Slaughter
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Tod Slaughter

Mar 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

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Cast

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Movie1939The Face at the WindowChevalier Lucio del Gardo
Movie1926London After Dark
Movie1936Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetSweeney Todd
Movie1940Crimes at the Dark HouseThe False Sir Percival Glyde
Movie1937It's Never Too Late to MendSquire John Meadows
Movie1935Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red BarnSquire William Corder
Movie1936The Crimes of Stephen HawkeStephen Hawke
Movie1948The Greed of William HartWilliam Hart
Movie1937The Ticket of Leave ManThe Tiger
Movie1938Sexton Blake and the Hooded TerrorMichael Larron
Movie1946The Curse of the WraydonsPhilip Wraydon
Movie1945Bothered by a BeardSweeney Todd
Movie1954Puzzle Corner Number FourteenSweeney Todd
Movie1937Darby and JoanMr. Templeton
Movie1936Tod Slaughter at HomeTod Slaughter
Movie1938Pots of PlotsTod Slaughter
Movie1937Song of the RoadDan Lorenzo
Movie1952A Ghost for SaleCaretaker
Movie1950Spring-Heeled JackPhilip Wraydon
Movie1952Murder at the Grange
Movie1952King of the UnderworldTerence Reilly
Movie1946The Curse of the WraydonsThe Chief

Crew

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Movie1950Spring-Heeled JackProducerProduction