Actor
Tod Slaughter
141 years · Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK · 24 films
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 for
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Sweeney Todd
On Plex
The Face at the Window
1939 · Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
On Philo
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Squire William Corder
On Mometu
Crimes at the Dark House
1940 · The False Sir Percival Glyde
On Plex
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937 · The Tiger
On Fawesome
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Stephen Hawke
On Tubi TV
Filmography 24
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954 · Sweeney Todd
The Showdown
1952 · Terence Reilly
Dark Passage
1952 · Terence Reilly
Reilly at Bay
1952 · Terrence Reilly
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
1952 · Terence Reilly
A Ghost for Sale
1952 · Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
1952 · Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
The Case of the Green Eye
1952 · Terence Reilly
King of the Underworld
1952 · Terence Reilly
The Greed of William Hart
1948 · William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946 · Philip Wraydon, The Chief
On Tubi TV
Bothered by a Beard
1945 · Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
1940 · The False Sir Percival Glyde
On Plex
The Face at the Window
1939 · Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
On Philo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938 · Michael Larron
On Fawesome
Pots of Plots
1938 · Tod Slaughter
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937 · The Tiger
On Fawesome
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937 · Squire John Meadows
On Tubi TV
She's My Darling
1937 · Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936 · Tod Slaughter
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936 · Stephen Hawke
On Tubi TV
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · Sweeney Todd
On Plex
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935 · Squire William Corder
On Mometu
London After Dark
1926 · Actor