A bigger star
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Tony Todd
tarotfool62 — 19 years ago(October 12, 2006 01:48 PM)
Why isn't this man a bigger star? He's got a great voice, ain't hard to look at and can act better than many of the overpaid actors we have to see over and over again.
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brandomarlon2003 — 19 years ago(November 01, 2006 09:53 AM)
He kind of reminds me of how Lance Henriksen is. Henriksen has starred in a lot of garbage yet he can also say that on his resume he worked with Al Pacino in "Dog Day Afternoon". Tony Todd has worked in some classic movies like with Sean Penn and Robert Duvall in "Color" (he had a tiny part) and he also worked with Christopher Reeve in a western shortly before Reeve became paralyzed. Todd also played a Klingon on "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
Both of these actors have been in small parts in major classics but their leading b68roles come to them only in horror movies and low-budget thrillers. The only mainstream leading role Henriksen has had was as Frank Black in "Millenium", the tv series. -
athenaworth — 19 years ago(November 28, 2006 07:20 PM)
Don't forget Platoon.
The problem with Tony is that he's been typecast because of Candyman. I know his wife, and she's always telling me about his struggles. Everyone wants him to play a villan of some sort, and all he really wants to do is stretch his acting wings. I guess it just goes to show that it really is tough to "break it" in the movie biz.
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RobinDeRolf — 19 years ago(January 29, 2007 04:36 PM)
He is stuck in the Vincent Price category. Vincent Price was a great actor, and was much better than a lot of the work that he was offered, but unfortunately it seems that once you get stuck in a horror cliche, then thats it. He was great in Platoon, but then he went on to do Night of the Living Dead and Candyman. He is great in both of these movies, but now hes type cast. I love horror movies, so I like that he does them, but I know that he would be great in a dramatic part that Samuel L. Jackson or Laurence Fishburne might get.
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Sirus_51 — 18 years ago(May 23, 2007 04:41 AM)
Too true, there are far too many underrated actors out there. But at least he gives constant good quality work and is in many projects to boot.
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Shiny-NZ — 13 years ago(April 08, 2013 03:19 AM)
FREAKING awesome. OMG, if he was in a Tarantino I'd actually go see that. Like pay money and everything. He's such a wonderful actor, he has incredible presence on screen. It's crazy that he isn't super well-known.
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tealballoon — 11 years ago(March 13, 2015 12:24 PM)
He's an amazing actor. Maybe he has bad agents, or makes bad business decisions, like Scarecrow Slayer. Somehow he manages to teeter between mainstream and underground productions. Not quite sure how he does it on a consistent basis.
