Candyman is dead: actor Tony Todd was 69

He was also one of the faces of the Final Destination saga and Michael Bay's Rock.

The world of anxiety has just lost one of its legendary figures. The actor Tony Toddaka Candymandied Wednesday at his home in California. He was 69 years old. The cause of death has not been revealed.

After a first role in Platoon by Oliver Stone (1986) and in the remake of Night of the Living Dead (1990), Tony Todd etched his name in the pantheon of horror in 1992, in the film by Bernard Rose. At 1.95 m tall, Todd played Daniel Robitaille, aka Candymanthe tortured, bee-covered ghost of an African-American artist, son of a slave murdered for his relationship with a white woman. A role that he reprized in the sequels Candyman 2 in 1995 and Candyman 3: The Day of dead in 1999.

Virginia Madsen played at the time the role of a graduate student from Chicago preparing a thesis on the legend of Candyman and investigating downtown Chicago. She immediately reacted to the death of her comrade on social networks: “My beloved. May your soul rest in peace. The great actor Tony Todd has left us and is now an angel. As he was when he was alive.”

Tony Todd returned to play Daniel Robitaille in 2021, in the new Candyman by Nia DaCosta.

Over the years, he had also appeared in other cult films of the genre, notably in another horror franchise, Final destination. From the first part in 2000, he played William Bludworth, a role he later played again in Final Destination 2 (2003) and Final Destination 5 (2011).

Finally, we will remember Tony Todd for his epic clash with Nicolas Cage in the 1990s action classic Rockof Michael Bayplaying a sociopathic soldier in the American army.