Tod Slaughter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1885, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
- Died
- February 19, 1956
- Movies
- 27
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
Best-Known Movies
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
The Face at the Window
1939
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
The Greed of William Hart
1948
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1950 | Spring-Heeled Jack | Producer |
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