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
21 acting credits
Acting · 21
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936
The Curse of the Wraydons
1946
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
1935
The Ticket of Leave Man
1937
Crimes at the Dark House
1940
The Greed of William Hart
1948
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
1938
Murder at the Grange
1952
The Face at the Window
1939
Spring-Heeled Jack
1950
London After Dark
1926
King of the Underworld
1952
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
1936
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
1954
Song of the Road
1937
Darby and Joan
1937
It's Never Too Late to Mend
1937
Tod Slaughter at Home
1936
Bothered by a Beard
1945
Pots of Plots
1938
A Ghost for Sale
1952