Tony Todd
Anthony Tiran "Tony" Todd (December 4, 1954–November 6, 2024) was an American actor. He appeared in a staggering number of horror movies, starring as Ben in the Night of the Living Dead remake, Mr. William Bludworth in the Final Destination films, and the titular supernatural killer in the Candyman series, and appeared in the Michael Bay-directed action movie The Rock. He was also a regular on TV, appearing as Kurn on two Star Trek series, Director Graham on Chuck, and General Juma on 24.
In the realm of voice work, he had voiced Darkseid in several DC projects, Icon on Young Justice, Zoom on The Flash, Admiral Tommy Briggs in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, The Vortigaunts in the Half-Life franchise, Scare Glow in Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Venom in Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 and Locus in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Voice roles
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- Todd replaced James Arnold Taylor as The Fallen in the film version of Revenge of the Fallen, to the latter's disappointment.
- In a February 4, 2010 interview with Den of Geek, Todd said that he was told he "definitely" had a role in Transformers 3, and later clarified at the Calgary Expo that he would be playing a human character.<ref>Den of Geek interviews Tony Todd, February 4, 2010</ref> However, in an interview with ScreenRant on October 1, 2010, he stated that this was in fact not the case.<ref>ScreenRant interviews Tony Todd, October 1, 2010.</ref>