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
The Face at the Window
Chevalier Lucio del Gardo
London After Dark
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd
Crimes at the Dark House
The False Sir Percival Glyde
It's Never Too Late to Mend
Squire John Meadows
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Squire William Corder
The Crimes of Stephen Hawke
Stephen Hawke
The Greed of William Hart
William Hart
The Ticket of Leave Man
The Tiger
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
Michael Larron
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Chief
Bothered by a Beard
Sweeney Todd
Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen
Sweeney Todd
Darby and Joan
Mr. Templeton
Tod Slaughter at Home
Tod Slaughter
Pots of Plots
Tod Slaughter
A Ghost for Sale
Caretaker
Murder at the Grange
The Curse of the Wraydons
The Chief