Tod Slaughter
Birthday: 1885-03-19
Place of Birth: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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
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The Face at the Window
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Bri...
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London After Dark
This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's ove...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their ...
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Crimes at the Dark House
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in...
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It's Never Too Late to Mend
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are ...
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When ...
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open...
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The Greed of William Hart
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinbu...
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The Ticket of Leave Man
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The ...
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous st...
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The Curse of the Wraydons
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the fam...
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Bothered by a Beard
A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty trea...
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Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue....
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Darby and Joan
Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yor...
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Tod Slaughter at Home
Short skit in which a "Pathetone" reporter tries to interview Tod Slaughter at home, but finds the f...
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Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, ...
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Song of the Road
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles...
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Spring-Heeled Jack
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his m...
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Murder at the Grange
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say ...
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King of the Underworld
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee e...
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The Curse of the Wraydons
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the fam...
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