After a long illness, the actor who was in more than 200 movies and TV shows, such as Final Destination, The Rock, The Crow, and Platoon, died at home.
Tony Todd, who played the killer Candyman in the great horror movie Candyman and also appeared in Final Destination, The Rock, and Platoon, has died at the age of 69.
He had been sick for a long time and died on Wednesday at home in Los Angeles, his wife Fatima told the Hollywood Reporter on Friday.
Todd was born in Washington, DC, in 1954. In his 40-year career, he was in a huge number of TV shows and movies. One of his first roles was as the heroin-addicted Sergeant Warren in Oliver Stone’s Oscar-winning war drama Platoon. He also played Grange in 1994’s The Crow with Brandon Lee and starred with Nicolas Cage in 1996’s The Rock.
Many popular TV shows have had Todd in them, such as 24, Homicide: Life on the Street, The X-Files, 21 Jump Street, Night Court, MacGyver, Matlock, Law & Order, Beverly Hills 90210, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Murder, She Wrote. He also played many parts in Star Trek. In Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, he was best known as Kurn, Worf’s brother and a Klingon.
He also did a lot of voice work. He played roles in Call of Duty and Half Life games, Venom in Spider-Man 2 and the bad guy in Transformers: Rise of the Fallen.
Todd played Candyman, the movie’s title character and a killer who can be called when someone says his name five times in front of a mirror. The famous horror movie looked at racism and social class. Todd’s character, Daniel Robitaille, was killed by a white mob where a public housing project is now being built, and he still haunts that spot.
Todd told the Newsline in 2019 that he got an extra $1,000 every time a bee stung him in one of the movie’s most famous scenes. “And 23 times I got stung.” “Everything worth making has to hurt in some way.”
Todd played the same part in Jordan Peele’s remake of Candyman in 2021.
The famous actor used his fame to do good things like work with gangs and teach poor kids how to act. He said this about Candyman: “I’ve made 200 movies, but this is the one people remember.” People of every race are affected by it. What scares you? is a question I’ve used as an opening question in gang prevention work. What awful things have happened to you?”
“The business world lost a legend.” We’ve lost a friend we loved. New Line Cinema, which made the horror series, wrote on Instagram, “Rest in peace, Tony. -Your Final Destination Family.”
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