Tod Slaughter
Actor
- Born
- March 19, 1885 · Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
- Died
- February 19, 1956 (age 70)
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
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
March 1, 1936
The Face at the Window
April 7, 1939
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
August 18, 1935
Crimes at the Dark House
March 1, 1940
The Ticket of Leave Man
October 1, 1937
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
April 30, 1936
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
February 1, 1938
It's Never Too Late to Mend
March 1, 1937
The Greed of William Hart
March 1, 1948
The Curse of the Wraydons
December 16, 1946
Murder at the Grange
December 1, 1952
She's My Darling
February 1, 1937
Acting26
- 1954Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen as Sweeney Todd
- 1952The Showdown as Terence Reilly
- 1952Dark Passage as Terence Reilly
- 1952Reilly at Bay as Terrence Reilly
- 1952The Case of the Scarlet Letters as Terence Reilly
- 1952A Ghost for Sale as Caretaker
- 1952Murder at the Grange as Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
- 1952The Case of the Green Eye as Terence Reilly
- 1952King of the Underworld as Terence Reilly
- 1950