Tim Curry was an English actor and singer. He began his career on the stage, making his debut in Hair (1968–1969) and gaining wide recognition for portraying Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (1973–1975) and its 1975 film adaptation. He received three Tony Award nominations for his Broadway performances in Amadeus (1980–1981) as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, My Favorite Year (1992–1993) as Alan Swann, and Spamalot (2005) as King Arthur; and two Laurence Olivier Award nominations for West End productions of The Pirates of Penzance (1982) and Spamalot (2006–2007).
In film, Curry starred as Rooster Hannigan in Annie (1982), the Lord of Darkness in Legend (1985), Wadsworth in Clue (1985), the Concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993), and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996). Other film credits include The Worst Witch (1986), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Congo (1995), Charlie’s Angels (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), and Kinsey (2004). On television, he played Pennywise in the miniseries It (1990) and earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his role as a family of Hillbillies in the HBO anthology series Tales from the Crypt (1993). He also released three rock-focused studio albums: Read My Lips (1978), Fearless (1979), and Simplicity (1981), the latter two of which charted on the US Billboard 200.
A prolific voice-over performer, Curry won a Daytime Emmy Award for voicing Captain Hook on Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990–1991). He also voiced Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Sir Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004), Doviculus in Brütal Legend (2009), and Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012–2014). A reader for numerous audiobooks, he was Grammy-nominated for reading A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning (2002). He released his memoir Vagabond in 2025.
He was 80 years old
