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Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies at 69

Over the past three decades, Todd also continued his television career, appearing mostly in sci-fi, fantasy, and espionage programs such as X Files, Hercules: Legendary journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Smallville, charm, 24, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Finally, he played Klingon Commander Korn as well as the adult Jake Sisko, the son of Captain Benjamin Sisko, who spent decades of his life trying to save his father after an accident in the Trekkies’ favorite episode “The Visitor”.

Todd said: “The Visitor changed my life.” StarTrek.com in 2010, “not just in terms of appearing at the convention, but by the time that episode ended, the internet had just exploded and I remember sitting for hours enjoying the glow of love that was being written about that single episode.”

He said he accepted the role after the death of his aunt, who raised him as a single parent, adding that playing Jake was “a tribute to the father figure in my life that I loved and cherished.”

He recalls: “I was traumatized and couldn’t work for four months,” he recalls. “This was the role that got me out of bed, out of the house, into the producers’ office.”

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