Tim Curry

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Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946 in Cheshire, England) is a British actor and composer perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also had an earlier career as a rock musician. He studied Drama and English at Cambridge and at Birmingham. His list of roles is extremely extensive, in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features, and it is notable that he almost always plays a villain of one kind or another. Mr. Curry currently lives in Los Angeles with his dog, Frank.

Notable roles

• The original Dr Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Show and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973-1975)
• Has-been rock star Stevie Streeter in Rock Follies of '77 (1977)
• The disc jockey Johnny LaGuardia in Times Square (1980)
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the miniseries It (based on the Stephen King novel)
• Dr Petrov in The Hunt for Red October (based on the Tom Clancy novel)
• Dr Thornton Poole the elocutionist in the film Oscar
• The voice of Dr. Anton Sevarius in the animated Disney series Gargoyles
• The voice of Nigel Thornberry in the animated Nickelodeon series The Wild Thornberrys
• The voice of King Acorn in the Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM series
• The voice of Captain Hook in the animated Fox series Peter Pan and the Pirates
• The voice of Taurus Bulba in the animated Disney series Darkwing Duck.
• The voice of Konk in the animated Hanna-Barbera series, The Pirates of Dark Water.
• The lead of Larry Gormley in BBC's Blue Money comedy in 1982
• Darkness in the film Legend (1982)
• Wadsworth the Butler in the film Clue (1985)
• In 1990 he joined many other guests for Roger Waters' massive performance of The Wall in Berlin.
• The arch hotel concierge Mr Hector in the film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
• Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island.
• Numerous computer games, both as an actor (using Full Motion Video) and just as a voiceover (as in two of the three Gabriel Knight games).
• Narrating most of the Harper audio book versions of A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
• Roger Corwin in Charlie's Angels in 2000
• King Arthur in Monty Python musical Spamalot (2004-2005)

Theatre parts at the Olivier Theatre (a part of the National Theatre in London):

• Mac the Knife in the "Threepenny Opera" and
• a part in the drama "Dalliance" (Liebelei) by Arthur Schnitzler; both in 1986.

External links

• Tim Curry Sphere - Austria's first Tim Curry Fanpage (http://www.timcurry.at/)
• Tim Curry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/) at the Internet Movie Database
• Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4679116)sv:Tim Curry

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