{"id":834615,"date":"2026-09-02T23:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834615\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T23:22:09","slug":"tim-currys-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834615\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Curry’s Cause of Death Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA week after Tim Curry<\/a> died, his cause of death has been revealed. <\/p>\n

\n\tCurry\u2019s death is attributed to coronary artery disease, according to documents obtained by People<\/a> from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor, known for his starring roles as Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/a> and Pennywise the Clown in the 1990 miniseries It<\/a>, based on Stephen King\u2019s novel, died Aug. 25 at his Toluca Lake home in Los Angeles at age 80. His longtime manager and friend, Marcia Hurwitz, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Aug. 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe documents also listed a history of stroke and kidney cancer as other significant conditions that contributed to his death. However, neither were listed as the underlying cause.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Clue actor had suffered a major stroke in 2012. He reflected on the stroke<\/a> in an October 2025 interview with Turner Classic Movies\u00a0host Ben Mankiewicz that\u00a0aired<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0CBS Sunday Morning.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was so strange,\u201d he said. \u201cI was actually having a massage, and the guy who was giving me a massage said, \u2018I\u2019m worried about you. I think we should call a doctor.\u2019 I felt fine. I had no symptoms I was aware of. I wasn\u2019t in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCurry said he was \u201cscared\u201d because his dad suffered a fatal stroke when he was 10 years old. <\/p>\n

\n\tAs a result of the stroke, Curry underwent brain surgery and rehabilitation. \u201cI had to learn how to speak again. That was very weird. I hated not being able to speak,\u201d he said, adding that the left side of his face became paralyzed. <\/p>\n

\n\tCurry was also beloved for his roles<\/a> in Monty Python\u2019s Spamalot, Annie, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Legend and more.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the news of his death, many of Curry\u2019s former co-stars and other celebrities<\/a> publicly shared tributes honoring the actor\u2019s decades long career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after Tim Curry died, his cause of death has been revealed. Curry\u2019s death is attributed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,2852,10756,129205,107014],"class_list":["post-834615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-it","tag-obituaries","tag-the-rocky-horror-picture-show","tag-tim-curry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}