Personal Info
Tod Slaughter
Acting
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
Movies
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
Spring-Heeled Jack
as Philip Wraydon
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo