Candyman actor Tony Todd dies aged 69

Actor Tony Todd, champion known for starring successful the Candyman fearfulness films, has died aged 69.

The American histrion died astatine his location successful Los Angeles connected Wednesday night, according to reports.

He starred arsenic the rubric quality successful the fearfulness series, depicting the ghostly Candyman quality with a hook for a hand, summoned by saying his sanction 5 times successful beforehand of a mirror.

Todd continued arsenic Candyman from the archetypal movie successful 1992 done follow-ups successful 1995 and 1999, and reprised the relation successful 2021 for a 4th movie serving arsenic a nonstop sequel to the original.

Throughout his 40-year career, Todd besides featured successful hundreds of films, signifier productions and tv dramas, including roles successful the Transformers and Final Destination films.

In Candyman, Todd's titular quality is the shade of creator Daniel Robitaille, a achromatic antheral who was lynched successful the 19th Century.

The 1992 movie sees Todd's quality accidentally summoned to the existent satellite by a postgraduate pupil successful Chicago intrigued by the municipality fable of the Candyman, mounting disconnected a concatenation of murderous events.

Speaking to the Guardian successful 2019, Todd recalled the film's celebrated country that sees Candyman swarmed with bees, during which helium was stung 23 times and seemingly paid a $1,000 bonus each time.

"Everything that’s worthy making has to impact immoderate benignant of pain," helium remarked.

On his Candyman character, helium told the aforesaid interview: "I’ve done 200 movies, this is the 1 that stays successful people’s minds. It affects radical of each races. I’ve utilized it arsenic an introductory instrumentality successful gang-intervention work: what frightens you? What horrible things person you experienced?"

Paying tribute, histrion Virginia Madsen, who starred arsenic pupil Helen Lyle successful Candyman, said Todd "now is an angel. As helium was successful life".

She called him a "truly poetic man" with "a heavy cognition of the arts".

"I volition miss him truthful overmuch and anticipation helium haunts maine erstwhile successful a while," she added. "But I volition not summon him successful the mirror!"

The archetypal film's sequel - Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh - acceptable 3 years aboriginal sees Todd's iconic pb look again successful New Orleans, encountering a descendant of his daughter.

The 3rd movie - Candyman: Day of the Dead - was released successful 1999, but acceptable successful 2020 Los Angeles.

Todd, and others from the 1992 film, reprised their roles successful the 2021 film.

In 2020, Todd called that mentation "brilliant", crediting the film's manager Nia DaCosta arsenic "a instrumentality of assemblage horror".

As portion of her tribute, Madsen praised the "gift" that the film's co-writer Jordan Peele had fixed herself and Todd to "let america unrecorded again arsenic lovers".

Before Candyman, 1 of Todd's earliest roles successful movie was successful 1986 arsenic Sgt Warren successful warfare play Platoon.