
Acting
Born March 19, 1885 · Newcastle 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 this

Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954

A Ghost for Sale
1952

Murder at the Grange
1952
King of the Underworld
1952
Spring-Heeled Jack
1950

The Greed of William Hart
1948

The Curse of the Wraydons
1946

Bothered by a Beard
1945

Crimes at the Dark House
1940

The Face at the Window
1939

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938

Pots of Plots
1938

The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
Song of the Road
1937

It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937

Darby and Joan
1937

Tod Slaughter at Home
1936

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935

London After Dark
1926