Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 19, 1885
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 - Movies
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
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King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
Murder at the Grange
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Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo