{"id":44555,"date":"2024-11-09T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44555"},"modified":"2024-11-09T16:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T00:03:55","slug":"tony-todd-has-passed-away-at-age-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44555","title":{"rendered":"Tony Todd, actor and voice actor, has passed away at age 69"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tony Todd<\/strong>, born Anthony Tiran Todd in Washington, D.C. in 1954, has passed away. Todd was a renowned actor known for his performances on the stage, in film and in television. He also has multiple voice acting credits. Todd passed away in his Los Angeles home on November 6th at age 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd has over 200 acting credits and multiple producing credits as well. He starred in the <strong><em>Final Destination<\/em><\/strong> film franchise. Our cultured nerds out there may also recognize him as appearing in both <strong><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em><\/strong>. Todd voiced <strong>DC<\/strong> supervillain powerhouse, <strong>Darkseid<\/strong>, in the animated movies known together as the <strong>DCAMU<\/strong> (DC Animated Movie Universe) as well as <strong>Zoom<\/strong> in <strong><em>The Flash<\/em><\/strong> television series. He likewise voiced <strong>Marvel<\/strong> villain <strong>Venom<\/strong> in 2023&#8217;s <strong><em>Spider-Man 2<\/em><\/strong> video game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Todd&#8217;s cause of death has not been made public as of yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we remember the life and art of Tony Todd, we&#8217;d love for you to comment below with your favorite role that he played or voiced!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0865302\/bio\/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IMDb<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/tony-todd-dead-candyman-1236171521\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deadline<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nFilm, television, and stage star, Tony Todd, passed away this week.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=44555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Tony Todd, actor and voice actor, has passed away at age 69&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":44560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[813,6],"tags":[4340,194,6154,450,5407],"class_list":["post-44555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-film-tv","tag-actor","tag-dc","tag-final-destination","tag-marvel","tag-tony-todd","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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