Candyman follows graduate student Helen Lyle as she investigates the Candyman urban legend surrounding mysterious deaths in Chicago's Cabrini-Green Homes. Hook-handed, covered in

Tony Todd, the actor who played the eponymous phantom killer in the original “Candyman” horror franchise and other notable roles, has died at 69.

Tony Todd, the commanding actor whose supernatural portrayal of the hook-wielding Candyman cemented his status as a horror genre icon, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles area home at the age of 69, his representatives confirmed. The veteran actor's death ...