{"id":18726,"date":"2026-08-26T19:20:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=18726"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:20:55","slug":"famed-cult-actor-tim-curry-star-of-rocky-horror-picture-show-and-home-alone-2-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topat10.com\/?p=18726","title":{"rendered":"Famed cult actor Tim Curry, star of \u2018Rocky Horror Picture Show\u2019 and \u2018Home Alone 2,\u2019 dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in\u00a0\u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and the smug concierge in \u201cHome Alone 2: Lost in New York,\u201d has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n

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Curry, who\u00a0suffered a stroke in 2012<\/a>\u00a0that put him in a wheelchair, died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz. No cause was disclosed.<\/p>\n

Known for his arch humor, a putty-like face and gift with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations \u2014 for \u201cSpamalot,\u201d \u201cMy Favorite Year\u201d and \u201cAmadeus\u201d \u2014 and an Emmy nod in 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they\u2019re a tad more interesting,\u201d Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.<\/p>\n

Curry burst onto the scene as the Transylvanian Frank-N-Furter in the sci-fi, cross-dressing rock musical \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show,\u201d which premiered in 1973 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He went with it to Broadway and then starred in the 1975 cult-classic movie alongside Barry Bostwick,\u00a0Meat Loaf<\/a>\u00a0and Susan Sarandon.<\/p>\n

The show was ahead of its time in terms of its representation of LGBTQ+ characters and has entered the pop culture lexicon for its many iconic and memorable scenes, including the song \u201cThe Time Warp,\u201d which has been covered by handfuls of artists, and the often-quoted phrase, \u201cDammit, Janet!\u201d The show was twice revived on Broadway, most recently in 2026 with\u00a0Luke Evans playing Frank-N-Furter.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a force, a bright fierce flame, an exquisite charm and that rich vocal tone,\u201d Evans wrote on Instagram. \u201cI hope, wherever you are, you\u2019d approve of one more Frank having the time of his life in those heels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Curry\u2019s take on Frank-N-Furter<\/h4>\n

Curry\u2019s Frank-N-Furter had a posh British accent, but that almost wasn\u2019t the case. He said he tried German and American accents but pivoted after he heard a British woman on a bus talking with her friend.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met a woman on a bus who said, \u2018Do you have a house in town or a house in the country\u2019 and I thought, \u2018That\u2019s the voice!\u2019\u201d he told LA Magazine in 2015.<\/p>\n

For many years after the film\u2019s premiere, the British-born actor declined to discuss it. He didn\u2019t participate in activities promoting the film, which morphed into an interactive event at midnight shows. But he later warmed again to the project and embraced it at public events. Asked by LA Magazine how he viewed \u201cRocky Horror,\u201d he responded: \u201cWith a sort of bemused tolerance. It\u2019s neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curry\u2019s Broadway career included starring in\u00a0Tom Stoppard\u2019s \u201cTravesties\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in 1975-76, playing Mozart opposite Ian McKellen\u2019s Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer\u2019s \u201cAmadeus\u201d and King Arthur in the 2005 production of \u201cSpamalot.\u201d The New York Times said his \u201cstalwart, plummy-voiced Arthur wears a smile as inflexible as armor.\u201d He also played Scrooge in \u201cA Christmas Carol,\u201d at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in 2001.<\/p>\n

His screen credits included starring as the child-killing monster in the 1990 miniseries version of Stephen King\u2019s horror novel \u201cIt,\u201d as a medical officer in \u201cThe Hunt for Red October\u201d in 1990 and the double-dealing Cardinal Richelieu in 1993\u2019s \u201cThe Three Musketeers\u201d with Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Chris O\u2019Donnell.<\/p>\n

In his 2025 memoir, \u201cVagabond,\u201d Curry warned readers that while there were scraps of his nature in his characters, he was none of them. \u201cThe distinctions between who I really am and who I\u2019ve pretended to be as an actor have proven to be a source of great disappointment to some audiences. It has not caused me much personal distress beyond the periodic necessity to deter stalkers,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Tim Curry\u2019s life and career began in England<\/h4>\n

Born in Cheshire, England, Curry was the son of a Navy chaplain and a school secretary. He was 12 when his father died and his mother subsequently went to work. Young Tim learned to cook his own breakfast, resulting in a lifelong passion for cooking, and sharpened his humor muscles.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father was a Methodist chaplain in the Navy, and we moved pretty much every 18 months,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I had to make my mark in new schools and new playgrounds pretty quickly. And a sense of humor is the best way to do that. I was always a kind of mimic, one of those awful, relentless children, I should think.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acting did not occur to him until his middle teens, when he attended a school for the sons of Methodist ministers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky that it was a liberal kind of school; many of them in England are rather Dickensian,\u201d he recalled to the AP. \u201cThere was a lot of theater, and I sang, too; I had been singing in church from the age of 7. I had enormous opportunities to express myself in that way. I just got hooked, really.\u201d<\/p>\n

His training continued in 1965 when he entered the University of Birmingham, at that time one of three English universities with a drama department. \u201cI took an academic course, which I largely ignored, I\u2019m afraid, and just acted all the time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He then went down to London and talked his way into his first job, \u201cHair,\u201d in the West End. Curry went on to the more formalized theater of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, where he was enlisted for \u201cThe Rocky Horror Picture Show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim Curry\u2019s other roles<\/h4>\n

He went on to futilely try to stop Macaulay Culkin\u2019s Kevin McCallister from taking advantage of New York\u2019s swanky Plaza Hotel in \u201cHome Alone 2: Lost in New York.\u201d Curry also was Wadsworth, the unhinged butler with a secret past, in the quotable \u201cClue.\u201d He played a wealthy philanthropist in 1995\u2019s \u201cCongo\u201d and a baddie opposite Carol Burnett in the movie \u201cAnnie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody could play lovable villains better than he could,\u201d Burnett wrote on Instagram. \u201cHe was a dear friend. I was blessed to know him.\u201d<\/p>\n

In later years, Curry lent his baritone voice to many voice-acting roles in children\u2019s TV series, including \u201cStar Wars: The Clone Wars,\u201d \u201cThe Wild Thornberrys\u201d and \u201cThe Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a yearslong break from live-action roles, he played a plague doctor-masked man in a wheelchair in 2024\u2019s \u201cStream,\u201d something the film\u2019s director Michael Leavy called a dream come true.<\/p>\n

Curry, who never married and had no children, was deeply private about his personal life. But he wrote in his memoir that he was convinced to tell his story thanks to so many moving encounters with fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion that my experiences might resonate helps me persevere \u2014 if they strike a chord with only one teenager, alone with a book in his room, as I so often was; or that young woman reading this on an interminably long bus ride; or that older queen, hopefully still in his fishnets, who saw \u2018Rocky Horror\u2019 upstairs at the Royal Court; or that middle-aged mother who organizes \u2018Clue\u2019 watching parties and refuses entry to anybody out of costume; or that buttoned-up bank clerk who relishes musicals; or that woman who kicked me out of the Waverly for being myself,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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