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

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

as Sweeney Todd

The Face at the Window

as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo

Crimes at the Dark House

as The False Sir Percival Glyde

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

as Squire William Corder

The Ticket of Leave Man

as The Tiger

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

as Stephen Hawke

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

as Michael Larron

It's Never Too Late to Mend

as Squire John Meadows

The Greed of William Hart

as William Hart

The Curse of the Wraydons

as Philip Wraydon