Among his first screen roles was playing the heroin-addicted Sergeant Warren in Oliver Stone’s Best Picture Oscar-winning Vietnam War classic Platoon.
But his best-known film roles came during the following decade.
The Candyman legend lived on in the 2021 sequel directed by Nia DaCosta.
“You gotta have audience sympathy for the character in some way or another,” Todd told Deadline in a 2022 interview.
Todd also about a half-dozen small films during the 2000s and appeared as himself in dozens of mostly horror-themed documentaries and docuseries.
Among his more than 240 film and television credits over a 40-year career, Tony Todd played the killer in Candyman and its 2021 sequel. He also starred in Platoon and the Final Destination franchise. Todd passed away on November 6 at his Los Angeles home. His age was 69.
His representatives gave Deadline confirmation of the news but did not specify the cause of death.
Date of birth: December 4, 1954, Washington, D.C. Todd developed his skills and his commanding style while pursuing acting at Trinity Rep Conservatory and the Eugene O’Neill National Actors Theatre Institute. He played the heroin-addicted Sergeant Warren in Oliver Stone’s Best Picture Oscar-winning Vietnam War drama Platoon, one of his first on-screen roles.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Todd appeared as a guest on popular television shows like 21 Jump Street, Night Court, MacGyver, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, Law and Order, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills 90210, Xena: Warrior Princesses and Murder, She Wrote, and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. He also appeared in more than a dozen episodes of The Young and the Restless in 2013 as Gus Rogan and as annoying TV news reporter Matt Rhodes on Homicide: Life on the Street.
Todd kept acting for the big screen throughout this time. In the 1980s, he starred in the Charlie Parker biopic Bird, which starred Forest Whitaker, and the drama Lean on Me. But the next ten years saw his most well-known film roles.
Todd, who stands 6 feet 5 inches tall, played the part of Ben, played by Duane Jones in George A. Reilly’s 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Romero’s famous 1968 debut. He played the iconic title creep with a hook for a hand in Candyman (1992), a role he reprised in the 2021 sequel of the same name. This is probably his next major role.
Candyman played the role of Daniel Robitaille’s ghost in the 1992 movie. Robitaille’s parents were slaves in the 1800s and went on to become successful painters. His father, however, was furious and sent a lynch mob to kill him after he fell in love with a white woman. Robitaille was set on fire where a public housing project was later constructed and where a string of mysterious killings took place.
The 2021 follow-up, which was directed by Nia DaCosta, continued the Candyman legend. Todd would play funeral home owner William Bludworth in Final Destination and several sequels, among other horror roles, over the course of his 40-year career. In 1994’s The Crow, starring Brandon Lee, he also portrayed Grange, Top Dollar’s (Michael Wincott) right-hand man.
In an interview with Deadline in 2022, Todd stated, “You have to have audience sympathy for the character in some way or another.”. “There must be an alluring quality about the character that entices people to support them while simultaneously making them feel disgusted by the notion. For my part, I write a backstory for both my heroes and all of my tortured characters in every movie I make. “.”.
Over the course of the twenty-first century, Todd kept up a steady career in movies, television shows, and video games. He occasionally appeared as the CIA director on Chuck on NBC, Dead of Summer on Freeform, and Scream on MTV/VH1. Most of his on-screen personas were in B-movies.
He was also a highly sought-after voice actor, contributing his rich and resonant pipes to dozens of roles in everything from Transformers: Prime and Be Cool to Scooby-Doo, Star Trek, and Call of Duty video games to movies like Transformers: Rise of the Fallen.
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With a kind laugh and a giving nature that belied his bulky build, Todd continued to work into this year, landing a lead role in The Bunker and Stream, among more than a dozen other upcoming credits, according to IMDb. He participated in the 2022 SXSW premiere of Bitch Ass and the Stream, Realm of Shadows, and Werewolf Game last year.
In the 2000s, Todd starred in dozens of documentaries and docuseries with a horror theme, as well as about six short films.
Information about survivors was lacking.
