Tod Slaughter

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1885-03-19

Deathday 1956-02-19 (70 years old)

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

Actor

1954
1952
A Ghost for Sale

as Caretaker

1952
King of the Underworld

as Terence Reilly

1950
Spring-Heeled Jack

as Philip Wraydon

1948
1946
The Curse of the Wraydons

as Philip Wraydon

1946
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
Pots of Plots

as Tod Slaughter

1937
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
1935

Producer

1950
Spring-Heeled Jack

as Producer