Tod Slaughter
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1885
- Died
- February 19, 1956
- Birthplace
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
Filmography
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen 1954
as Sweeney Todd
The Showdown 1952
as Terence Reilly
Dark Passage 1952
as Terence Reilly
Reilly at Bay 1952
as Terrence Reilly
The Case of the Scarlet Letters 1952
as Terence Reilly
Murder at the Grange 1952
as Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
A Ghost for Sale 1952
as Caretaker
The Case of the Green Eye 1952
as Terence Reilly
King of the Underworld 1952
as Terence Reilly
- Spring-Heeled Jack
Spring-Heeled Jack 1950
as Philip Wraydon, Producer
The Greed of William Hart 1948
as William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons 1946
as Philip Wraydon, as The Chief
Bothered by a Beard 1945
as Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House 1940
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window 1939
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror 1938
as Michael Larron
Pots of Plots 1938
as Tod Slaughter
The Ticket of Leave Man 1937
as The Tiger
- Song of the Road
Song of the Road 1937
as Dan Lorenzo
It's Never Too Late to Mend 1937
as Squire John Meadows
She's My Darling 1937
as Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home 1936
as Tod Slaughter
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke 1936
as Stephen Hawke
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936
as Sweeney Todd
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn 1935
as Squire William Corder
London After Dark 1926
Actor
Credits from TMDB.