Acting
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
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Tod Slaughter
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in...
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes...
Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When t...
The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "to...
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collect...
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes fro...
In 1880, the criminal called The Wolf is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank i...
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold f...
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He...
Darby is a blind girl and Joan is her elder sister. The story revolves around Joan's passion for Yorke - an idl...
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wro...
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wro...
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Sp...
After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of th...
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someon...
This rare film of stage actor and later cinema star Tod Slaughter opens with a view of St Paul's over the river...
An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.
Tod Slaughter’s last big screen appearance on camera, delivering a Sweeney Todd monologue.
Short skit in which a "Pathetone" reporter tries to interview Tod Slaughter at home, but finds the fiendish fel...
A flagrant plug for the trusty safety razor disguised as a comic history of shaving, this witty treat was made...
Tod Slaughter introduces himself in brief vignettes of some of his most famous parts (Sweeney Todd, Squire Will...
A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes.
