Acting
Tod Slaughter
Birth Date
March 19, 1885
Death Date
February 19, 1956
(passed away at 70)
Place of Birth
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
Popularity
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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
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Movie
Song of the Road
Dan Lorenzo
1937
star9.0
Movie
A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
1952
star5.8
Movie
The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon
1946
star5.7
Movie
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
1936
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Movie
The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1939
star10.0
Movie
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd
1954
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Movie
Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter
1936
Movie
Spring-Heeled Jack
Philip Wraydon
1950
Movie
London After Dark
1926
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Movie
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
1935
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Movie
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
1937
star9.0
Movie
Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter
1938
star5.7
Movie
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
1936
star5.6
Movie
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger
1937
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Movie
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
1938
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Movie
Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940
star6.0
Movie
King of the Underworld
Terence Reilly
1952
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Movie
Murder at the Grange
1952
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The Greed of William Hart
William Hart
1948
star10.0
Movie
Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd
1945