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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

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Movie Involvements: 17

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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

Most Famous Work

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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5
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
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5

Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

(1936) Squire William Corder
The Ticket of Leave Man
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5

The Ticket of Leave Man

(1937) The Tiger
Crimes at the Dark House
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6

Crimes at the Dark House

(1940) The False Sir Percival Glyde
It's Never Too Late to Mend
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6

It's Never Too Late to Mend

(1937) Squire John Meadows
The Curse of the Wraydons
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5

The Curse of the Wraydons

(1946) The Chief
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
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5

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

(1936) Stephen Hawke
The Face at the Window
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5

The Face at the Window

(1939) Chevalier Lucio del Gardo

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