Tributes paid to ‘bright fierce flame’ Tim Curry<\/a><\/p>\nCurry was also nominated for a Tony in 1993 for My Favorite Year and in 2005 for his role as King Arthur in the \u200czany Monty Python’s Spamalot.<\/p>\n
Possessing a rich baritone voice, he was in demand as a voice actor for animated films and TV shows.<\/p>\n
He won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991 for his voice work on the animated Peter Pan & the Pirates.<\/p>\n
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\nTim Curry, centre, appears with cast members from nominated Broadway productions at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on 5 June, 2005 \/ Image: PA<\/p>\n
With his sinister grin \u2060and menacing laugh, Curry was frequently cast in Hollywood films as a villain \u2013 sometimes with comic overtones, which let him deliver the type of over-the-top performances for which he \u200cwas famed.<\/p>\n
“I do love those roles \u2013 they’re always the best written,” Curry told interviewer Andrew Kay in 2011.<\/p>\n
He conceded that some \u2060of his movies were \u200cmediocre, singling out 1995’s Congo, a tale of diamond mines and killer gorillas.<\/p>\n
“I was really very bad in it,” Curry said. “I won a Razzie Award for one of the worst performances of the year \u2013 and I richly deserved it, too.”<\/p>\n
A cult following<\/p>\n
Curry was born in the English village of Grappenhall, Cheshire, on 19 April, 1946. His father, a Royal Navy chaplain, died when he was 12. His mother was a school \u2060secretary.<\/p>\n
Curry studied drama at Birmingham University.<\/p>\n
In 1973, he landed the part of Dr Frank-N-Furter in the original London stage version of The Rocky Horror Show.<\/p>\n
He performed the play \u2060in New York and Los Angeles before it was made into a film, renamed as The Rocky Horror Picture Show.<\/p>\n
The film was not an instant hit but won a cult following in midnight screenings in New York City and elsewhere, with audience members often dressing up as Rocky Horror characters.<\/p>\n
Curry withdrew from a British stage production in 2011 due to ill health.<\/p>\n
In 2013, his agent said that he had suffered a stroke but was recovering “in great humour”.<\/p>\n
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\nTim Curry suffered a stroke in 2012 that left him partially paralysed<\/p>\n
From then on, he used a wheelchair and reduced his workload.<\/p>\n
In 2024, he did, however, return to the big screen, appearing in the horror film Stream.<\/p>\n
Curry, who lived in Los Angeles, never married and had no children.<\/p>\n
A composer and \u200ca singer, Curry also performed with his own rock band and released a handful of albums.<\/p>\n
In October 2025, he published his memoir, Vagabond.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association, AFP, Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has been announced of the British actor Tim Curry, best known for his starring role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-605481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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