He looks rather Jack-the-Ripperish, or more like a melodrama villain who insists you must pay the rent. Details:

The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844. A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States until the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin  premiered in 1853.

This match is from 1940 - it started in 1933 and ran for 36 years.