Tod Slaughter

Biography

Norman Carter Slaughter, known as Tod Slaughter, was a renowned English actor-manager born on March 19, 1885, in Gosforth. He began his stage career at West Hartlepool in 1905 and later became a lessee of the Hippodrome theatres in London before serving in World War I. Following his return, he took over the Elephant and Castle Theatre, reviving Victorian melodramas that catapulted him to fame as "Mr. Murder".