
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

as Sweeney Todd

as Squire William Corder
1935

as Caretaker
1952

as Sweeney Todd
1936

as The Tiger
1937

as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1939
as Dan Lorenzo
1937

as Philip Wraydon
1946

as Squire John Meadows
1937

as The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940

as Stephen Hawke
1936

1952

as William Hart
1948
1952

as Sweeney Todd
1954

as Caretaker
1952

1952
as Terence Reilly
1952
as Philip Wraydon
1950

as William Hart
1948

as Philip Wraydon
1946

as Sweeney Todd
1945

as The False Sir Percival Glyde
1940

as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
1939

as Michael Larron
1938

as Tod Slaughter
1938

as The Tiger
1937
as Dan Lorenzo
1937

as Squire John Meadows
1937

as Mr. Templeton
1937

as Tod Slaughter
1936

as Stephen Hawke
1936

as Sweeney Todd
1936

as Squire William Corder
1935

1926