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

KNOWN FOR

Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
The Face at the Window
1939
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
Song of the Road
1937
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
A Ghost for Sale
1952
King of the Underworld
1952
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
22
Producing
1
1954
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
as Sweeney Todd
1952
A Ghost for Sale
as Caretaker
1952
Murder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
as Terence Reilly
1950
Spring-Heeled Jack
as Philip Wraydon
1948
The Greed of William Hart
as William Hart
1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
as Philip Wraydon
1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
as The Chief
1945
Bothered by a Beard
as Sweeney Todd
1940
Crimes at the Dark House
as The False Sir Percival Glyde
1939
The Face at the Window
as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1938
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
as Michael Larron
1938
Pots of Plots
as Tod Slaughter
1937
It's Never Too Late to Mend
as Squire John Meadows
1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
as The Tiger
1937
Darby and Joan
as Mr. Templeton
1937
Song of the Road
as Dan Lorenzo
1936
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
as Sweeney Todd
1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
as Stephen Hawke
1936
Tod Slaughter at Home
as Tod Slaughter
1935
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
as Squire William Corder
1926
London After Dark