Ted Toddy(1900-1983)
- Producer
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Ted Toddy was a movie producer and distributor. He was born in Russia to
Mordecai and Gilda Tartakoff. He first
worked for Universal Pictures and later for the Southern division of
Columbia Pictures before forming what would later become the
Atlanta-based Toddy Pictures Company, devoted to the production and
distribution of "race" films, in 1940. Archival material relating to
the Toddy Pictures Company was presented to the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences in 1999 by actor Giancarlo Esposito, and is deposited in
the Special Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy,
located in Beverly Hills. Toddy was running a carnival in Atlanta in
1952 when he purchased the 1934 Ford Model 730 Deluxe Sedan in which
famed bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker had met their deaths, and he
exhibited it both at the carnival and on the road for a number of
years. When Bonnie and Clyde (1967) came out in 1967, Toddy got the car out of storage
and exhibited it nationwide as the "True Bonnie and Clyde Death Car."
It's currently exhibited at the Primm Hotel & Casino on I-15 on the
Nevada-California state line.