Acting
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
Filmography
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Film · 1954
A Ghost for Sale
Film · 1952
Murder at the Grange
Film · 1952
King of the Underworld
Film · 1952
Dark Passage
Film · 1952
The Case of the Green Eye
Film · 1952
The Case of the Scarlet Letters
Film · 1952
Reilly at Bay
Film · 1952
The Showdown
Film · 1952
Spring-Heeled Jack
Film · 1950
The Greed of William Hart
Film · 1948
The Curse of the Wraydons
Film · 1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
Film · 1946
Bothered by a Beard
Film · 1945
Crimes at the Dark House
Film · 1940
The Face at the Window
Film · 1939
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Film · 1938
Pots of Plots
Film · 1938
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Film · 1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
Film · 1937
She's My Darling
Film · 1937
Song of the Road
Film · 1937
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Film · 1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Film · 1936
Tod Slaughter at Home
Film · 1936
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Film · 1935
London After Dark
Film · 1926