Tod Slaughter

Known for ActingBorn 1885-03-19Died 1956-02-19Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

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 thisRead more

Movies & web series

Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen

Bothered by a Beard

A Ghost for Sale

Pots of Plots

Song of the Road

Tod Slaughter at Home

Murder at the Grange

Darby and Joan

Crimes at the Dark House

It's Never Too Late to Mend

King of the Underworld

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

The Curse of the Wraydons

The Face at the Window

The Ticket of Leave Man

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

The Greed of William Hart

Spring-Heeled Jack

London After Dark