1. Norman Carter Slaughter, known as Tod Slaughter, was an English actor, best known for playing over-the-top maniacs in macabre film adaptations of Victorian melodramas.
12 Facts About Tod Slaughter
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Tod Slaughter staged other types of production such as the annual Christmas pantomime, where he cast prominent local personalities in bit parts for audience recognition.
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Tod Slaughter played the young hero in The Face at the Window, poacher Tom Robinson in "It's Never Too Late To Mend", and village idiot Tim Winterbottom in Maria Marten.
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Tod Slaughter played the title character in The Return of Sherlock Holmes and D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers.
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Silent footage exists of Tod Slaughter acting on stage at the Elephant and Castle in the military melodrama The Flag Lieutenant, in a documentary entitled London After Dark.
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Slaughter's next film role was as Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed and produced by George King, whose partnership with Slaughter was continued in the subsequent shockers: The Crimes of Stephen Hawke ; It's Never Too Late To Mend ; The Ticket of Leave Man ; The Face at the Window and Crimes at the Dark House.
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Tod Slaughter was a supporting player in The Song of the Road and Darby and Joan.
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Tod Slaughter was busy on stage during World War II, performing Jack the Ripper, Landru and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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Tod Slaughter continued to act in stage productions, such as Moliere's The Gay Invalid opposite future horror star Peter Cushing, and acting as the MC at an evening of old-fashioned music hall entertainment.
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Tod Slaughter continued performing on stage even at the end of his life.
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Tod Slaughter was guest on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs on 24 March 1955.
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On 19 February 1956, at the age of 70, Tod Slaughter died of coronary thrombosis in Derby.