Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor and singer. He is known for working in a diverse range of theatre, film, and television, most often portraying villainous characters. Curry rose to prominence with his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London and the 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show.
His other stage work includes various roles in the original West End production of Hair, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1980 Broadway production of Amadeus, the Pirate King in the 1982 West End production of The Pirates of Penzance, Alan Swann in the Broadway production of My Favourite Year, and King Arthur in Broadway and West End productions of Spamalot from 2005 to 2007.
Curry received further acclaim for his film and television roles, including as Rooster Hannigan in the film adaptation of Annie (1982), as Darkness in the fantasy film Legend (1985), as Wadsworth in the mystery comedy film Clue (1985), as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the horror miniseries It (1990), as the Concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996).
Curry has also gained acclaim as a voice actor. His roles in animation include Captain Hook on the Fox series Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990–1991), Hexxus in the fantasy film FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Sir Nigel Thornberry on the Nickelodeon series The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004) and Palpatine on Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2013–2014).
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Tim Curry Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tim Curry |
| Also Know | Тим Карри, Timothy James “Tim” Curry, Timothy James Curry, The Cheshire Cat, James Curry, Tim J. Curry, Timothy J. Curry, Timothy Curry, Tim James Curry |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Grappenhall, Warrington, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1946-04-19 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday |
Tim Curry Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Muppet Treasure Island | Long John Silver | 1996-02-16 | After telling the story of Flint’s last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked… |
| Four Dogs Playing Poker | Felix | 2000-01-01 | With the help of their mentor Felix, a group of the best friends and first-time thieves steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless black market art dea… |
| The Chosen One | Lucifer | 2007-10-13 | …he’s lost his job, totaled his car, and been attacked by a bear. Just when it seems like life can’t get any worse, the leader of an eccentric churc… |
| Addams Family Reunion | Gomez Addams | 1998-12-24 | The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover that Grandpa and Grandma Addams have a disease th… |
| Fly Me to the Moon | Yegor (voice) | 2008-08-15 | Three young houseflies stow away aboard the Apollo 11 flight to the moon…. |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 1975-08-14 | This low-budget freak show/cult-classic/cultural institution concerns the misadventures of Brad Majors and Janet Weiss inside a strange mansion that t… |
| Clue | Wadsworth | 1985-12-13 | Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy — who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackm… |
| Wolf Girl | Harley Dune | 2001-09-21 | Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune’s Trave… |
| A Christmas Carol | Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 1997-01-01 | One of the best-loved holiday stories of all time is back in this animated, musical version of Charles Dickens’ most famous tale. An all-star voice li… |
| Little Miss Christmas | Mr. Salamone | 2006-12-05 | It s almost Christmas Even for Eloise, the Plaza s most famous six-year old. She and her friends have decided to put on a holiday show like no other! … |
| Times Square | Johnny LaGuardia | 1980-10-17 | When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own advent… |
| Blue Money | Larry Gormley | 1985-03-01 | Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash…. |
| The Voyages of Young Doctor Dolittle | Doctor Dolittle (narrator) | 2011-11-01 | John Dolittle loves animals just like his uncle, Doctor Dolittle. When John is warned that animals are in danger, he jumps into his uncle’s submarin… |
| Pirates of the Plain | Jezebel Jack | 1999-11-18 | “Pirates of the Plain” details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate with a heart of gold that is sent to the future where he meets Bobby, a young b… |
| Abel’s Island | Abel (voice) | 1988-06-17 | One summer afternoon in 1907, Abel and his wife (both mice) are picnicking, when they become separated during a violent rainstorm. After flying some d… |
| Eloise Goes to School | 2007-07-24 | After Eloise s tutor Philip quits, nanny enrolls her in the prestigious Hawthorne academy. Eloise can t wait to being real school, but soon finds out … | |
| Steadfast Tin Soldier | Jack-in-The-Box | 1991-01-25 | Animation based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen… |
| Pennywise: The Story of IT | Himself | 2022-07-26 | Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries “IT” and its infamous villain Pennywise live on in the minds of horror fans aroun… |
| Vérité | Mik | 1973-10-23 | A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest… |
| Video Stars | Teddy Whazz | 1983-12-06 | A new underground TV-Channel is set up…. |
| The Marzipan Pig | Narrator (voice) | 1990-11-05 | A lonely, lost marzipan pig reaches out with love, in a strange chain of events, to an owl, a mouse and a hibiscus flower. – Tim Curry… |
| Axel: The Biggest Little Hero | Papa Qi | 2013-08-02 | A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he sets out on an adventure-filled quest to find the legendary Bonta oasis…. |
| I, Crocodile | Narrator (voice) | 2002-10-31 | An Egyptian crocodile lives happily in his new home in Paris, until a chef tries to turn him into dinner. The crocodile escapes through the sewers and… |
| Barbie and the Three Musketeers | Philippe (voice) | 2009-09-15 | Corinne (Barbie) is a young country girl who heads to Paris to pursue her big dream – to become a female musketeer! Never could she imagine she woul… |
| Jackie’s Back! | Edward Whatsett St. John | 1999-06-14 | A mockumentary of Jackie Washington, a fictional pop diva and actress, played by Jenifer Lewis. Jackie tells the story of her rise to stardom and fall… |
| Oliver Twist | Bill Sikes | 1982-03-23 | The classic Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets…. |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K Jerome | 1975-12-31 | One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh … |
| Schmoedipus | Glen | 1974-06-20 | Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth…. |
| The Ploughman’s Lunch | Jeremy Hancock | 1983-05-30 | As England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb up from his working-class roots, at any cost, lyin… |
| Saving Santa | Neville Baddington (voice) | 2013-11-05 | A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa’s Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to tra… |
| Creating a Myth… the Memories of ‘Legend’ | Himself | 2002-05-21 | This 51 minute documentary of the movie “Legend” can be found as an extra on the 2002 2-disc boxed-set ‘Ultimate Edition’ DVD release of “Legend”. The… |
| Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen | Himself | 2008-12-16 | Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playful history of the most daring cross-sexual perform… |
| Rocky Horror 45: The Movie | Self | 2021-05-24 | Underground filmmaker Manny Velazquez dives into the immortal history and legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and its lesser known sequel Shock Tr… |
| Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad – The Glitch That Stole Christmas | Kilokahn (voice) | 1994-11-11 | In this Christmas special, Malcolm and the evil Kilokahn have finally tracked down Servo. Kilokahn has ordered Malcolm to strand up Christmas lights t… |
| Who Done It: The Clue Documentary | 2018-10-13 | Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the… | |
| Legend | Lord of “Darkness” | 1985-08-28 | Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen … |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King | The Goblin King (voice) | 2008-09-23 | Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal named The Amazing Krudsky who wants power and is … |
| Sorted | Damian Kemp | 2000-10-06 | A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother’s mysterious death…. |
| Valiant | Von Talon (voice) | 2005-03-25 | Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon… |
| The Secret of Moonacre | Coeur De Noir | 2008-09-06 | When 13 year old Maria Merryweather’s father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live … |
| Pass the Ammo | Rev. Ray Porter | 1988-03-04 | A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of he… |
| Gingerclown | Gingerclown | 2013-05-09 | 1983: A group of high school students are having a great time near Hollywood Hills at the weekend when they bump into the Loser from their school, Sam… |
| The Outback | Blacktooth (voice) | 2012-01-12 | Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as ta… |
| The Scoundrel’s Wife | Father Antoine | 2002-03-09 | Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of … |
| Passed Away | Boyd Pinter | 1992-04-24 | Thrown for a loop by the unexpected news that Dad has suddenly gone to his reward, the grieving eccentric Scanian clan are drawn together in a test of… |
| The Story of Santa Claus | Nostros, the eldest elf (voice) | 1996-01-01 | An animated musical that explains how a toymaker named Nicholas Claus (voice of Edward Asner) started the tradition of delivering a toy to every child… |
| The Creation – Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible | The Serpent (Voice) | 1988-07-05 | The three protagonists listen to a storyteller recount the creation as well as the Fall. At the same time, they learn their own lessons in honesty aft… |
| The More I Know | (voice) | 2016-11-10 | A weary old man is getting ready to die. He has nothing more to fear and decides to share the secret of his life with us. While his relatives wait out… |
| Daisy-Head Mayzie | Finagle (voice) | 1995-02-05 | Daisy-Head Mayzie wakes up one morning to find a daisy has sprouted from the top of her head. Facing her classmates’ taunts and her parents’ dismay, M… |
| The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie | Nigel Thornberry (voice) | 2001-08-18 | Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, getting lost in a cave, and a forest fire) while look… |
| Barbie in the Nutcracker | Mouse King (voice) | 2001-09-30 | “Barbie” stars as Clara in this animated retelling of the classic Christmas ballet, complete with Tchaikovsky soundtrack and ballet choreography…. |
| Congo | Herkermer Homolka | 1995-06-09 | Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone bers… |
| The Worst Witch | The Grand Wizard | 1986-10-31 | Mildred is one of the young girls at a prestigious witch academy. She can’t seem to do anything right and is picked on by classmates and teachers. The… |
| National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1 | Mr. Jigsaw | 1993-02-04 | An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the… |
| FernGully: The Last Rainforest | Hexxus (voice) | 1992-04-10 | When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destr… |
| Christmas in Wonderland | McLoosh | 2007-12-27 | Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to Edmonton. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall they find counterfeit cash. They inadvertently help ca… |
| Bailey’s Billion$ | Caspar Pennington | 2005-08-05 | Sweet and savvy talking golden retriever, Bailey, is one doggone lucky pooch when his devoted owner, Constance Pennington, leaves him her entire billi… |
| The Pebble and the Penguin | Drake (voice) | 1995-04-12 | A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who’s partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient penguin ritual dictates that males present a pebble to … |
| Lover’s Knot | Cupid’s Caseworker | 1996-07-12 | A pair of lovers have no idea that their affair is overseen and orchestrated by an angel sent by Cupid to see that they remain together in this romant… |
| The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Nigel Thornberry (voice) | 2002-12-20 | Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don’t always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie’s life is in danger, and Eliza migh… |
| Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Malefico | El Maléfico (voice) | 2005-01-04 | The hit TV series boldy goes bigger in an action-packed comedy/adventure starring everyone’s favorite luchadoras! When the greatest evil the world has… |
| Doom Runners | Dr. Kao | 1997-12-20 | In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their quest for sanctuary…. |
| The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu | 1993-11-11 | D’Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king’s elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbande… |
| Rugrats Go Wild | Nigel Thornberry (voice) | 2003-06-13 | When the Rugrats find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they meet the Thornberrys, a family who agrees to help them escape…. |
| Oscar | Dr. Thornton Poole | 1991-04-26 | Angelo “Snaps” Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite … |
| Annie | Rooster Hannigan | 1982-05-21 | An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver “Daddy”… |
| A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures | Fluffy (voice) | 2010-08-03 | A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming. Born on a Baja, Califor… |
| Bartok the Magnificent | The Skull (voice) | 1999-11-15 | Russia is being terrorized by an evil witch known as Baba Yaga; the only one who is not afraid of her is Bartok the Magnificent. Bartok, an albino bat… |
| Strange Frame: Love & Sax | Dorlan Mig (voice) | 2012-05-03 | 28th century, 200 years after the Great Earth Exodus. Naia, a feisty, young singer/songwriter, falls in love with the beautiful saxophonist Parker in … |
| A Sesame Street Christmas Carol | Narrator (voice) | 2006-12-01 | Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas…. |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost | Ben Ravencroft (voice) | 1999-11-05 | Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rum… |
| The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show | Himself | 1995-08-14 | This short documentary, produced in celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, features interviews (most previously availab… |
| Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off | Lord Dragaunus (voice) | 1996-09-06 | A direct-to-video feature film, Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off, was released in 1997. It comprises three episodes of the animated series e… |
| The Shout | Robert Graves | 1978-06-16 | Bored while officiating a cricket match at a psychiatric hospital, Crossley tells Graves (a visitor) the tale of a mysterious stranger (also named Cro… |
| Lights, Camera, Annie! | Self / Rooster | 1982-03-07 | An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director… |
| Jimmy Neutron: Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion | Professor Calamitous (voice) | 2003-10-13 | Jimmy is enlisted as a spy by the Big Top Secret Organization. His mission: find and rescue Agent X – who turns out to be Jimmy’s movie hero, Jet Fusi… |
| The Easter Story | Judas Iscariot (voice) | 1990-01-01 | The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, … |
| Charlie’s Angels | Roger Corwin | 2000-11-02 | The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back! When a devious mastermind embroils them in a plo… |
| The Shadow | Farley Claymore | 1994-07-01 | Based on the 1930’s comic strip, puts the hero up against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom us… |
| Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | Forte (voice) | 1997-11-11 | Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter…. |
| Ritual | Matthew Hope | 2002-01-01 | An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man’s brother…. |
| Burke & Hare | Dr. Monroe | 2010-10-29 | Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist…. |
| Back To The Sea | Eric (voice) | 2012-01-27 | When little fish Kevin is swept up in a net and taken from his home in the vast oceans to the small glass fish tank of a restaurant, he must find a wa… |
| Super Nova | Poet Man | 1997-05-11 | As things settle down on the Lexx, the crew realizes Kai needs a constant supply of proto-blood to continue to function in the real world. Stanley and… |
| Kinsey | Thurman Rice | 2004-09-04 | Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea… |
| Queer Duck: The Movie | Peccary | 2006-07-14 | Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo “Openly” Gator, hit a relationship crisis when the fey fowl is wooed b… |
| McHale’s Navy | Maj. Vladikov | 1997-04-18 | Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the old PT-73 selling homebrew, ice cream, and swimsuit … |
| What About Dick? | Reverend Whoopsie | 2012-11-13 | What About Dick? begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben Kingsley (Eddie Izzard), and tells the sto… |
| Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell | Himself – Interviewed in 1974 (archive footage) | 2015-01-09 | Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his childhood of domestic violence, through a decade of rej… |
| The Rugrats Movie | Rex Pester (voice) | 1998-11-20 | Annoyed by the responsibility of being an older brother to Dil, Tommy sets out with Chuckie, Phil, and Lil to return his baby brother to the hospital…. |
| Lion of Oz | Captain Fitzgerald (voice) | 2000-09-26 | Before Dorothy landed on the Wicked Witch of the East with her little farm house, the witch had to contend with another resident of middle America. Th… |
| The Hunt for Red October | Dr. Yevgeniy Petrov | 1990-03-02 | A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri… |
| Scary Movie 2 | Prof. Oldman | 2001-07-04 | While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans’s sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group… |
| Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! | Piccadilly (voice) | 2009-08-07 | The film chronicles George’s adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus show and helps her travel across the country to be r… |
| The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again | The Narrator/Criminologist | 2016-10-20 | A straitlaced, square couple, seeking shelter from a storm, find themselves in the castle of a transsexual alien mad scientist intent on creating a bu… |
| Ribbit | Terrence (English version, voice) | 2014-09-04 | A frog who hates the water and jumping wishes that he could be like the other animals in the Amazon rainforest…. |
| Tales from the Darkside | Pirate (voice) | 1990-11-29 | A compilation of episodes from the classic ’80s horror anthology TV series “Tales From The Darkside” for the VHS market…. |
| Rugrats in Paris: The Movie | Sumo Singer (voice) | 2000-09-14 | A group of rambunctious toddlers travel a trip to Paris. As they journey from the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame, they learn new lessons about trust, loya… |
| I Love Muppets | Himself | 2002-03-31 | Gonzo the Great talks about the Muppets creator Jim Henson and what he did before the television show was made in 1976…. |
| Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide | Professor Finbarr Calamitous | 2006-03-14 | Cartoon worlds collide in this hourlong adventure starring whiz kid Jimmy Neutron and Timmy Turner from “The Fairly OddParents.” When the boys duel ov… |
| Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | Concierge | 1992-11-19 | Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad’s credit card—despite problems… |
| The Cat Returns | The King (US) | 2002-07-19 | Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it’s no ordinary feline; it happens to be the Prince of the Cats…. |
| Roger Waters: The Wall – Live in Berlin | Vocals | 1990-07-20 | A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefi… |
| Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties | Prince (voice) | 2006-06-15 | Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by… |
| Get Bruce! | Himself | 1999-01-01 | Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearances, from Oscar hosts and award recipients to Presi… |
Tim Curry Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Producer | Over the Top is an American sitcom starring Tim Curry, Annie Potts, and Steve Carell. The series premiered on ABC on October 21, 1997. Although 12 epi… | ||
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