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
The Face at the Window
(Chevalier Lucio del Gardo)
London After Dark
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Sweeney Todd)
Crimes at the Dark House
(The False Sir Percival Glyde)
It's Never Too Late to Mend
(Squire John Meadows)
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
(Squire William Corder)
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
(Stephen Hawke)
The Greed of William Hart
(William Hart)
The Ticket of Leave Man
(The Tiger)
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
(Michael Larron)
The Curse of the Wraydons
(Philip Wraydon)
Bothered by a Beard
(Sweeney Todd)
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
(Sweeney Todd)
Darby and Joan
(Mr. Templeton)
Tod Slaughter at Home
(Tod Slaughter)
Pots of Plots
(Tod Slaughter)
Song of the Road
(Dan Lorenzo)
A Ghost for Sale
(Caretaker)
Spring-Heeled Jack
(Philip Wraydon)
Murder at the Grange
King of the Underworld
(Terence Reilly)
The Curse of the Wraydons
(The Chief)