Over the course in four decades in show business, Todd lent his talents to multiple tentpoles, including the Transformers and Final Destination film series, plus two Star Trek shows.
Have YOU got a story? EmailTony Todd, who played the titular serial killer in the Candyman horror franchise, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday night aged 69.
Todd also enjoyed a varied stage career, including a run in the Broadway production of the musical Aida with songs by Tim Rice and Elton John. 'And, you know, my mother has no memory of it to this day, and I respect her as the woman who birthed me. But, you know, I’m also glad that my aunt intervened and put me on the right path.'
Reflecting on why Stone cast him, Todd said: 'The last thing he wanted was anybody that looked like an actor. He wanted real faces. So it helped that I came from the theatre and I came from poverty.' One of his early breaks in the movies was the acclaimed Oliver Stone war drama Platoon, released in 1986 as the first part of the director's Vietnam trilogy
Todd played the homicidal ghost of a 19th century American slave who conducted an affair with a white woman and was murdered as a result. After the runaway success of the first film, Todd starred in two sequels, Candyman: Farewell To The Flesh in 1995 and Candyman: Day Of The Dead in 1999. Now a mainstay of the horror genre, Todd acted in such films as the original Final Destination in 2000, plus Final Destination 2 in 2003 and Final Destination 5 in 2011
In the Michael Bay film Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, he provided the voiceover for the antagonist robot, The Fallen.
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