Whether it was the butler in clue, the clown in It, or Frank-n-Furter in Rocky Horror, Tim Curry was always entertaining.
Damn, just damn.
Thank you Mr. Curry for all those years of entertaining us.
Yeah, this sucks.
Apart from all his many TV and movie appearances, my kids and I enjoyed his beautiful voice reading the Lemony Snicket audiobooks.
Well, damn. Will watch Clue and Oscar in memoriam =(
RIP.
I did not know until recently that Curry put out three albums.
RIP. He was a treasure… such a great range and so funny.
I’ve read multiple times that you can tell a lot about a person by what their first experience with Tim Curry was.
For me, it was Clue. Clue is the film I’ve seen the most times in my life. I actually, in 5th grade, tried to re-write it as a script for a play and act it out with my friends at recess. I was Wadsworth.
Amazing actor, great voice.
Dolly and Tim Curry? Ugh.
Professional, too. Listen to him give his all for Beauty and the Beast: Christmas, the straight to VHS and really sucky VHS-movie.
In a great ensemble cast, Tim Curry really stood out in Clue and made it work.
I forgot about Oscar, Prime has it for Streaming.
He held his own acting with Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October.
He had a smallish screen time in Legend but out shown the stars of the movie, oddly playing Darkness.
Of course he was great as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island.
He appears to have 244 appearances as an actor on TV and in movies.
Yes, love Ocar. I heard Stallone hates it, but I loved it and Tim Curry nails the role he has in it.
Another very popular “first exposure to Tim Curry” movie is Muppet’s Treasure Island. That usually encompasses the generation after the Clue generation.
I’ve loved him in everything that he was in. He just seemed like a great sport. It was also great to see him still getting out there even after his body started breaking down. He will be missed.
That was the first movie I saw him in as well. Clue might not be at the very top of my list for most seen movie in my life, but if it’s not, it’s in the top 5 (the reason I can’t be certain is that at some point I stopped counting).
Well damn.
That’s it. We need a national day of mourning for all the treasures we’ve lost this week.
They say that celebrity deaths come in threes. If I were another 80 year old American national treasure, I’d be very concerned right now.
RIP. Fun fact: he played the manager of the Plaza Hotel not once, but twice. (First in Home Alone 2, then in Eloise: The Animated Series.)
I can think of one that isn’t a treasure…
and who appeared alongside Curry in a certain 1992 comedy…
Moderating: Not in the cafe thread please.
I used to go to screenings of RHPS at the old Tiffany Theater on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood in 1981 or so. It was insane.