Tony Todd, Horror Icon in ‘Candyman,’ ‘Final Destination,’ Dies at 69
The widely recognized actor amassed a variety of film and television roles dating back to the mid-1980s.
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American actor Tony Todd, who played the titular, hook-handed spirit in the horror classic Candyman, died Wednesday at his home in Marina Del Rey, California. He was 69. A cause of death was not immediately available. Todd, whose film credits began in 1986, was also known for Platoon, 1990’s Night of the Living Dead, The Crow, and as funeral home owner William Bludworth in five installments of the supernatural horror Final Destination franchise, the most recent of which is currently in post-production. Todd’s television roles were also abundant, with recurring roles in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Chuck, and 24, among many other series. In 2021, more than twenty years after Todd’s most recent portrayal of Candyman in that franchise, he made a brief cameo in the Nia DaCosta-directed sequel to the 1992 original.
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