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
Acted in 24
1950s
- 1954
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd
- 1952
The Showdown
Terence Reilly
Dark Passage
Terence Reilly
Reilly at Bay
Terrence Reilly
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
Terence Reilly
A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham
The Case of the Green Eye
Terence Reilly
King of the Underworld
Terence Reilly
1940s
- 1948
- 1946
- 1945
Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd
- 1940
Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
1930s
- 1939
- 1938
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter
- 1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
She's My Darling
Mr. Templeton
- 1936
Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
- 1935
1920s
- 1926
London After Dark
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