๐ข๐ป๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐บ๐ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ฟ๐ฒ. ๐๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐นโ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐. โ
Tony Todd, an actor who played the killer in Candyman and its 2021 sequel and appeared in the Final Destination franchise and Platoon among more than 240 film and TV credits spanning 40 years, died November 6 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 69.โ
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His reps confirmed the news to Deadline but did not provide a cause of death.โ
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Born on December 4, 1954, in Washington, D.C., Todd pursued acting at the Eugene OโNeill National Actors Theatre Institute and Trinity Rep Conservatory, where he honed his skills and developed his commanding style. Among his first screen roles was playing the heroin-addicted Sergeant Warren in Oliver Stoneโs Best Picture Oscar-winning Vietnam War classic Platoon.โ
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Todd went on to guest on such popular 1980s and โ90s series as 21 Jump Street, Night Court, MacGyver, Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, Law & Order, The X-Files, NYPD Blue, Beverly Hills 90210, Xena: Warrior Princesss and Murder, She Wrote and Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager. He also recurred as pesky TV news reporter Matt Rhodes on Homicide: Life on the Street and as Gus Rogan in more than a dozen 2013 episodes of The Young and the Restless.โ
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All the while, Todd continued to act for the big screen. He appeared in 1980s dramas Lean on Me, Colors and Charlie Parker biopic Bird, starring Forest Whitaker. But his best-known film roles came during the following decade.โ
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The 6-foot-5 Todd starred in the 1990 remake Night of the Living Dead as Ben, the role played by Duane Jones in George A. Romeroโs iconic 1968 original. His next big role likely is his most famous โ playing the mythical title creep with a hook for a hand in Candyman (1992) โ a character he reprised in the 2021 sequel of the same name.