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

Filmografi

Dark Passage1952 · Terence ReillyThe Showdown1952 · Terence ReillyThe Curse of the Wraydons1946 · Philip WraydonSong of the Road1937 · Dan LorenzoShe's My Darling1937 · Mr. TempletonThe Case of the Scarlet Letters1952 · Terence ReillyThe Case of the Green Eye1952 · Terence ReillyReilly at Bay1952 · Terrence ReillyThe Face at the Window1939 · Chevalier Lucio del GardoSpring-Heeled Jack1950 · Philip WraydonA Ghost for Sale1952 · CaretakerSweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street1936 · Sweeney ToddMurder at the Grange1952 · Patrick Reilly aka Clarence BeachamThe Crimes of Stephen Hawke1936 · Stephen HawkeKing of the Underworld1952 · Terence ReillyIt's Never Too Late to Mend1937 · Squire John MeadowsMaria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn1935 · Squire William CorderTod Slaughter at Home1936 · Tod SlaughterCrimes at the Dark House1940 · The False Sir Percival GlydeThe Greed of William Hart1948 · William HartSexton Blake and the Hooded Terror1938 · Michael LarronLondon After Dark1926 · Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen1954 · Sweeney ToddBothered by a Beard1945 · Sweeney Todd