American actor Tony Todd, who became famous mainly thanks to acting in the horror films Candyman, died on Wednesday evening at his home in Los Angeles, reports the portal.
In this horror series, he played the main character of the ghost Candyman with a hook instead of a hand. Todd continued the role of Candyman from the first film in 1992 through sequels in 1995 and 1999, and in 2021 he reprized the role in the fourth film, which served as a direct sequel to the original film.
During his 40-year career, Todd also appeared in hundreds of films, stage plays and television dramas, including roles in in the films Transformers and Final Destination.
In an interview with the Guardian website in 2019, Todd recalled the famous scene from the film in which Candyman is inundated with bees, during which he They stung 23 times and apparently paid him a $1,000 bonus each time. “Anything worth filming has to involve some kind of pain,” he noted.
