Tod Slaughter
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1885-03-19
Day of Death
1956-02-19 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
Acting
(1954)
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
(1952)
King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
(1952)
(1952)
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
(1950)
Spring-Heeled Jack
as Philip Wraydon
(1948)
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
(1946)
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon
(1946)
The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief
(1945)
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
(1940)
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
(1939)
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
(1938)
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
(1938)
Pots of Plots
as Tod Slaughter
(1937)
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
(1937)
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
(1937)
Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo
(1937)
Darby and Joan
as Mr. Templeton
(1936)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
(1936)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
as Stephen Hawke
(1936)
Tod Slaughter at Home
as Tod Slaughter
(1935)
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder
(1926)
Crew
(1950)
Spring-Heeled Jack
Producer