NewzTim Curry's screen credits included starring as Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries version of 'It,' Roger Corwin in the 2000 film reboot of 'Charlie's Angels' and more. Curry, who suffered a stroke in 2012 that put him in a wheelchair, died Wednesday (local time) at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz. Frank-N-Furter put Curry on the map in 1975.
He then went on to play a number of villainous roles like Gomez Addams, Pennywise and Bill Sikes, but also Mozart and William Shakespeare. He then went on to play a number of villainous roles like Gomez Adams, Pennywise and Bill Sikes, but also Mozart and William Shakespeare. "I like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they're a tad more interesting," Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.
Curry was renowned for his portrayals of Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise the Clown in the 1990s film adaption of the Stephen King thriller It. Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr.
Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the smug concierge in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” has died. He was 80.Curry, who suffered a stroke in 2012 that put him in a wheelchair, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz. No cause was disclosed.Known for his arch humor, a putty-like face and gift with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations — for “Spamalot,” “My Favorite Year” and “Amadeus” — and an Emmy nod in 1994.“I like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they’re a tad more interesting,” Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.Curry burst onto the scene as the Transylvanian Frank-N-Furter in the sci-fi, cross-dressing rock musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which premiered in 1973 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
He said he tried German and American accents but pivoted after he heard a British woman on a bus talking with her friend.“I met a woman on a bus who said, ‘Do you have a house in town or a house in the country’ and I thought, ‘That’s the voice!’” he told LA Magazine in 2015.For many years after the film’s premiere, the British-born actor declined to discuss it. He didn’t 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 “Rocky Horror,” he responded: “With a sort of bemused tolerance. It’s neither a blessing nor a curse. I was lucky to get it.”Curry’s Broadway career included starring in Tom S…
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