Background
Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Quentin Tod was born in Kent, England, son of Alexander Maxwell Tod, an Englishman, and his American wife Belle Perkins Tod, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Tod made his acting debut in the 1911 Broadway musical comedy, Marriage a la Carte. His first credited performance in film was in the 1930 Monty Banks comedy The New Waiter, in which Tod played himself. He was the sole credited dancer in the first British televised version of A Midsummer Night"s Dream in 1937 and was ballet choreographer on the 1937 British television pantomime performance of Dick Whittington and His Cat.
The following year he devised Have You Brought Your Music? for British Broadcasting Corporation Television.
The show featured music played by the now defunct British Broadcasting Corporation Television Orchestra. Tod died in 1947 of malnutrition in Saint Stephen"s Hospital in Chelsea, London at the age of 62.