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Tod Slaughter
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…
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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
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1954
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Movie Sweeney Todd
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1952
Murder at the Grange
Movie
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1952
A Ghost for Sale
Movie Caretaker
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1952
King of the Underworld
Movie Terence Reilly
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1950
Spring-Heeled Jack
Movie Philip Wraydon
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1948
The Greed of William Hart
Movie William Hart
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1946
The Curse of the Wraydons
Movie Philip Wraydon
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1945
Bothered by a Beard
Movie Sweeney Todd
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1940
Crimes at the Dark House
Movie The False Sir Percival Glyde
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1939
The Face at the Window
Movie Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
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1938
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Movie Michael Larron
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1938
Pots of Plots
Movie Tod Slaughter
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1937
The Ticket of Leave Man
Movie The Tiger
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1937
Song of the Road
Movie Dan Lorenzo
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1937
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Movie Squire John Meadows
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1937
Darby and Joan
Movie Mr. Templeton
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1936
Tod Slaughter at Home
Movie Tod Slaughter
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1936
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Movie Stephen Hawke
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1936
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie Sweeney Todd
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1935
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Movie Squire William Corder
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1926
London After Dark
Movie
