Tod Slaughter
Acting
March 19, 1885
Died at age 70
February 19, 1956
Date of Death
Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK
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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
