Tod Slaughter
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

Top 10 collaborators

Roles

Match
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen (1954)
Sweeney Todd
Murder at the Grange (1952)
A Ghost for Sale (1952)
Caretaker
King of the Underworld (1952)
Terence Reilly
Spring-Heeled Jack (1950)
Philip Wraydon
The Greed of William Hart (1948)
William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946)
Philip Wraydon
The Curse of the Wraydons (1946)
The Chief
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window (1939)
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Michael Larron
Pots of Plots (1938)
Tod Slaughter
The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
The Tiger
Song of the Road (1937)
Dan Lorenzo
It's Never Too Late to Mend (1937)
Squire John Meadows
Darby and Joan (1937)
Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home (1936)
Tod Slaughter
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
Stephen Hawke
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
Sweeney Todd
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Squire William Corder

Crew

Spring-Heeled Jack (1950)
Producer