Tod Slaughter
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
Acted in
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954
as Sweeney Todd
A Ghost for Sale
1952
as Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
1952
as Terence Reilly
Spring-Heeled Jack
1950
as Philip Wraydon
The Greed of William Hart
1948
as William Hart
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
as Philip Wraydon
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
as The Chief
Bothered by a Beard
1945
as Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
The Face at the Window
1939
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
as Michael Larron
Pots of Plots
1938
as Tod Slaughter
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
as The Tiger
Song of the Road
1937
as Dan Lorenzo
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
as Squire John Meadows
Darby and Joan
1937
as Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936
as Tod Slaughter
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
as Stephen Hawke
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
as Sweeney Todd
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
as Squire William Corder
London After Dark
1926