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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 19, 1885
Place of Birth:
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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Tod Slaughter
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
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen | Sweeney Todd |
| 1952 | A Ghost for Sale | Caretaker |
| 1952 | Murder at the Grange | |
| 1952 | King of the Underworld | Terence Reilly |
| 1950 | Spring-Heeled Jack | Philip Wraydon |
| 1948 | The Greed of William Hart | William Hart |
| 1946 | The Curse of the Wraydons | Philip Wraydon |
| 1946 | The Curse of the Wraydons | The Chief |
| 1945 | Bothered by a Beard | Sweeney Todd |
| 1940 | Crimes at the Dark House | The False Sir Percival Glyde |
| 1939 | The Face at the Window | Chevalier Lucio del Gardo |
| 1938 | Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror | Michael Larron |
| 1938 | Pots of Plots | Tod Slaughter |
| 1937 | It's Never Too Late to Mend | Squire John Meadows |
| 1937 | The Ticket of Leave Man | The Tiger |
| 1937 | Darby and Joan | Mr. Templeton |
| 1937 | Song of the Road | Dan Lorenzo |
| 1936 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sweeney Todd |
| 1936 | The Crimes of Stephen Hawke | Stephen Hawke |
| 1936 | Tod Slaughter at Home | Tod Slaughter |
| 1935 | Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn | Squire William Corder |
| 1926 | London After Dark |
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