Tod Slaughter
March 19, 1885 (139 years old) in 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
Known For
Credits
- 1954 · Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen as Sweeney Todd
- 1952 · A Ghost for Sale as Caretaker
- 1952 · Murder at the Grange as
- 1952 · King of the Underworld as Terence Reilly
- 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 · Song of the Road as Dan Lorenzo
- 1937 · It's Never Too Late to Mend as Squire John Meadows
- 1937 · Darby and Joan as Mr. Templeton
- 1936 · Tod Slaughter at Home as Tod Slaughter
- 1936 · The Crimes of Stephen Hawke as Stephen Hawke
- 1936 · Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as Sweeney Todd
- 1935 · Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn as Squire William Corder
- 1926 · London After Dark as