Tony Todd, actor Candyman, Destination finale, The Crow, Rock and icon of horror cinema, died at the age of 69.
This Wednesday, and after a long illness (without further details), actor Tony Todd died at his home in Marina del Rey, California. His wife Fatima transmitted the information to Hollywood Reporterwho made it public. The face of the American actor has become one of the most iconic horror films from the 90s/2000s.
Tony Todd, from zombies to bees
Born in 1954 in Washington DC, the actor made his big screen debut in 1986 in the Platoon directed by Oliver Stone and in Sleepwalkdirected by Sara Driver. At the end of the 80s/early 90s, the man played a series of more or less important roles in films (Bird, Night of the Living Dead) and series (21 Jump Street, MacGyver) cults, to the point of embodying a character who left his mark on Pop culture, the Candyman (1992).
The extraordinary film directed by Bernard Rose, adapted from a text by Clive Barker, made Tony Todd a cult figure in horror cinema. The 90s for the actor, it will notably be two sequels to Candyman (1995, 1999), episodes of Star Trek (1990, 1995, 1998), The Crow (1994), X-Files: On the Borders of Reality (1994), Black Fox (1995-1996), Rock (1996) et Wishmaster (1997).
In the 2000s, Tony Todd made a series of films and series, but established himself once again in a horrific saga with the first two and the fifth Destination finale. In recent years, among a large corpus of more or less large productions (often horrific), the man has stuck his head in the Frankenstein directed by Bernard Rose, the series Scream and the continuation in 2021 of Candyman.
Tony Todd has also lent his voice to several characters in animated films and video games, such as Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War et Spider-Man 2. In the series Flashhe was the voice of the villain Zoom. According to his IMDb profile, the actor still has eight titles currently in post-production. He is a generous and prolific actor who has left us.
