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

Movies with Tod Slaughter

• Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street 1936 · ★ 5.7
• The Face at the Window 1939 · ★ 5.7
• Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn 1935 · ★ 5.6
• Crimes at the Dark House 1940 · ★ 6.2
• The Ticket of Leave Man 1937 · ★ 5.6
• The Crimes of Stephen Hawke 1936 · ★ 5.7
• Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror 1938 · ★ 6.0
• It's Never Too Late to Mend 1937 · ★ 6.1
• The Greed of William Hart 1948 · ★ 5.2
• The Curse of the Wraydons 1946 · ★ 5.8
• Murder at the Grange 1952 · ★ 6.5
• She's My Darling 1937 · ★ 6.3
• King of the Underworld 1952 · ★ 6.0
• Song of the Road 1937 · ★ 7.0
• Bothered by a Beard 1945 · ★ 10.0
• Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen 1954 · ★ 10.0
• Tod Slaughter at Home 1936 · ★ 7.0
• Pots of Plots 1938 · ★ 9.0
• A Ghost for Sale 1952 · ★ 9.0
• London After Dark 1926
• Spring-Heeled Jack 1950
• Dark Passage 1952
• The Case of the Green Eye 1952
• The Case of the Scarlet Letters 1952
• Reilly at Bay 1952
• The Showdown 1952