Tim Curry
British actor (1946-2026) · United Kingdom · On the map · Actors · Died at 80 · also United States
The voice that turned a demonic clown into a generational nightmare and the frame that made a sweet transvestite a cult fixture for five decades. Tim Curry built a career on playing the thing you can't look away from.
Tim Curry is read about 9,457 times a day, in 68 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp AgainFilm, The Narrator/Criminologist2015Actors Fund of AmericaAward2010
Regular ShowSeries, Master Prank Caller #2 (voice)
A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's AdventuresFilm, 2010Fluffy (voice)2008
Fly Me to the MoonFilm, Yegor (voice)2007
Phineas and FerbSeries, Stubbings (voice)2006
Garfield: A Tail of Two KittiesFilm, Prince (voice)2005
Criminal MindsSeries, Billy Flynn2004
KinseyFilm, Thurman Rice2002
MonkSeries, Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
The Wild Thornberrys MovieFilm, 2002Nigel Thornberry / Col. Radcliff Thornberry (voice)2000
Charlie's AngelsFilm, Roger Corwin1999
Batman BeyondSeries, Mutro Botha (voice)1998
Addams Family ReunionFilm, Gomez Addams1996
Hey Arnold!Series, Mr. Leichliter (voice)
Muppet Treasure IslandFilm, 1996Long John Silver1994
The ShadowFilm, Farley Claymore1992
Batman: The Animated SeriesSeries, Robot Clown (voice)
FernGully: The Last RainforestFilm, 1992Hexxus (voice)1991Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's ProgrammingAward
Darkwing DuckSeries, 1991Taurus Bulba (voice)1990
The Hunt for Red OctoberFilm, Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)1989
Agatha Christie's PoirotSeries, Lord Boynton1982
AnnieFilm, Rooster Hannigan1975
The Rocky Horror Picture ShowFilm, Dr. Frank-N-Furter1970
Play for TodaySeries, Glen1946Born19 April 1946People around Tim
Close ties
John Landis Directed Oscar and Burke & Hare
Michael Kamen Produced Fearless and Simplicity
Cree Summer Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Philip Proctor Also in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Tress MacNeille Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Kath Soucie Also in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Charlie Sheen Also in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Andy Serkis Duets: Bill Sikes, also in Burke & Hare (2010)
John Hurt Also in The Shout and Valiant
Jerry Goldsmith Wrote Legend, Congo and The Shadow- Joe Alaskey Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Charlie Adler Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)- Ian Abercrombie Duets: Palpatine (1980)
Michael Bell Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Neil Ross Also in FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)- Rick Ducommun Also in The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Melanie Chartoff Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)- Gene Quintano Directed Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Lee Ving Duets: Dr. Black, also in Clue (1985)- Jack Riley Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Cheryl Chase Also in The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Gábor Csupó Directed The Secret of Moonacre (2009)
Whoopi Goldberg Also in Loaded Weapon 1 and The Rugrats Movie
Suzanne Todd Produced Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)
Known for
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Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King 2008
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost 1999
The Hunt for Red October 1990
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975
Barbie and the Three Musketeers 2009
Filmography 40
257 credits on file
Television 24
Media & music
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About this person
Timothy James Curry came up through London's West End in Hair (1968-1969), but 1973 locked in the template: Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, a role he carried to film in 1975 and never fully shook. Broadway wanted him for Mozart in Amadeus (1980-1981) and twice more after that - three Tony nominations, two Oliviers - but the screen kept pulling him sideways into Darkness in Legend (1985), Wadsworth in Clue (1985), Pennywise in It (1990). He won a Daytime Emmy voicing Captain Hook on Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990-1991) and spent the next two decades inside animation - Hexxus, Nigel Thornberry, Palpatine in The Clone Wars (2012-2014) - racking up more than 240 credits by the time he published his memoir Vagabond in 2025. He died in August 2026, a year after the book, sixty years deep in the work.
