He American actor Tony Toddfor having played in horror franchise candy man in the role of the ghost of the same name and Final destinationdied Wednesday at his home in Marina del Rey (California), as confirmed by his representative. He was 69 years old. Tony Todd stood out with iconic titles like the adaptation of the comic strip by Alex Proyas The ravenMichael Bay’s action film The rock, with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cagein Alcatraz and the saga final destination. He stood out in the Oliver Stone film SectionOscar winner. In Star Trek: The Next GenerationTodd wore alien makeup to play Kurn, a commander of the Klingon defense forces and brother of Worf (played by Michael Dorn).
Todd did with the film candy manby Bernard Rose, an early 90s version of a Clive Barker short story. Todd, who stood 6’3″, played Daniel Robitaille as Candyman, the tortured, bee-covered ghost of an African-American artist. The film starred Virginia Madsen as a Chicago graduate student preparing for a thesis on the legend of Candyman by investigating the slums of Chicago.
“My beloved. May you rest in power”Madsen wrote in an Instagram post after learning of his co-star’s death. “The great actor Tony Todd has left us and is now an angel. As it was in life. Later, but now I can’t. I love you”.
Todd returned for the 1995 sequel Candyman: Goodbye to the flesh, then arrived in 1999 Candyman 3: Day of the Dead. In 2021 it was created candy manwhich served as a direct sequel to the 1992 original, Todd reprized his role in the new installment, starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as an artist drawn into the urban myth of Candyman.
He was born on December 4, 1954 in the capital Washington. Todd studied at the University of Connecticut for two years before transferring to the Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute. Trained in theater, Todd was a teacher in Hartford. He then played the lead role in King Hedley IIby August Wilson, with productions in Pittsburgh, Seattle and Boston.
Among Todd’s credits, which well exceed 200, the actor had a recurring role in Boston Public and made appearances on Law and order, Homicides: life on the streets, X-Files, small town, Psychology And 24.
He also stood out as a voice actor in The Fallen in Transformers: Revenge of the FallenZoom The lightning from The CW and, more recently, Venom in Insomniac’s hit for PlayStation Spider-Man 2. He played in remake 1990 Night of the Living Dead. He was one of the few actors who repeated in the franchise final destinationwhich killed off all its new characters at the end of each of its episodes.
