Tim Curry, ‘Rocky Horror Image Present’ star, useless at 80 – Nationwide

Tim Curry, the British actor finest recognized for taking part in Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Image Present and Pennywise in It, died at his house in Los Angeles. He was 80.

His dying was confirmed to International Information by his longtime agent and supervisor, Marcia Hurwitz, who mentioned the actor “handed away peacefully at his house in Toluca Lake” on Tuesday.

The reason for dying was not instantly out there.

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In 2012, Curry suffered a life-altering stroke that put him in a wheelchair and instructed The New York Instances final yr that he had “been recovering for fairly a very long time.”

Curry instructed the outlet that the stroke, which paralyzed the actor’s left aspect, occurred on July 12, 2012, whereas he was having a therapeutic massage and introduced him “means too near dying.”

“It’s a curious expertise,” he mentioned. “I didn’t understand it was taking place on the time. They instructed me on the hospital and operated on my mind and eliminated, I believe, two blood clots, which is a form of grim image. I discovered that very troublesome to deal with as a picture. There’s a German play known as ‘Danton’s Demise,’ the place he says, ‘Should you lower off the highest of my head and paddled round in my brains, you’d by no means know me.’ And it felt like someone had paddled round in my mind.”

He additionally mentioned that his father had suffered from a stroke when he was 45 and later died from pneumonia.

“And I stored remembering my mom speaking about going to see him in hospital. He might solely blink for sure and no. I dreaded that. I didn’t need that to occur to me. It was very peculiar not to have the ability to converse, and to discover a voice once more was troublesome,” he added.

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Identified for his arch humour and reward with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations — for Spamalot, My Favourite Yr and Amadeus — and an Emmy nod in 1994.

Curry was well-known for his position because the Transylvanian Frank-N-Furter within the sci-fi rock musical The Rocky Horror Present, which premiered in 1973 on the Royal Courtroom Theatre in London. He went with it to Broadway after which starred within the 1975 cult basic film alongside Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Susan Sarandon.

His display credit included starring as Pennywise within the 1990 miniseries model of Stephen King’s horror novel It and the villain followers liked to hate, Cardinal Richelieu, in The Three Musketeers in 1993 with Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Chris O’Donnell.

He went on to play the concierge that attempted to cease Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister from making the most of New York’s swanky Plaza Resort in Residence Alone 2: Misplaced in New Yorok. Curry was additionally Wadsworth, the butler with a secret previous, in Clue, based mostly on the board recreation.

He additionally performed Roger Corwin, the top of communications-satellite firm Redstar, within the 2000 movie reboot of Charlie’s Angels.

Different roles included Lengthy John Silver in 1996’s Muppet Treasure Island, a rich philanthropist in 1995’s Congo and reverse Carol Burnett within the film Annie.

Curry was additionally recognized for his voice-acting roles in youngsters’s TV collection, together with Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Wild Thornberrys and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius.

Following a break from live-action roles, Curry went on to play a plague doctor-masked man in a wheelchair in 2024’s horror motion movie, Stream.

Curry is survived by his nieces, Kate Lewis, Julia and Patrick Bullman and nice nieces, Josephine and Georgina and nephew, Mark Lewis

—With recordsdata from The Related Press

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