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Tod Slaughter

Mar 19, 1885 - Feb 19, 1956 (70 years old) in 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

Known For

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
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Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
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The Greed of William Hart
William Hart
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Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
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The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
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Murder at the Grange
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It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
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The Curse of the Wraydons
Philip Wraydon

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