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Tod Slaughter

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

  • Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
  • A Ghost for Sale
  • Murder at the Grange
  • The Greed of William Hart
  • The Curse of the Wraydons
  • Bothered by a Beard
  • Crimes at the Dark House
  • The Face at the Window
  • Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
  • Pots of Plots
  • It's Never Too Late to Mend
  • The Ticket of Leave Man
  • Darby and Joan
  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  • The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
  • Tod Slaughter at Home
  • Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
  • London After Dark

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