Known for Acting
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He has a secret lab complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave.
A burgomeister and family man is haunted by a crime he committed 15 years before: robbing a wealthy Jewish Polish seed merchant to pay off his mortgage debt.
'1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
