In March 2005, in an interview with Terry Gross of NPR's Fresh Air, he explains that he decided to play Dr. Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German accent and peroxide blond hair, and later, with an American accent. He gave me the script, and I thought, "Boy, if this works, it's going to be a smash." I said, "Why do you need him to sing?" And he told me that his musical was going to be done, and I should talk to Jim Sharman. I saw Richard O'Brien in the street, and he said he'd just been to the gym to see if he could find a muscleman who could sing. I'd heard about the play because I lived on Paddington Street, off Baker Street, and there was an old gym a few doors away. Curry recalled his first encounter with the project:
Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (1973). Career Acting Rocky Horror Ĭurry's first full-time role was as part of the original London cast of the musical Hair in 1968, where he met Richard O'Brien, who went on to write Curry's next full-time role, that of Dr. Deciding to concentrate on acting, he graduated from the University of Birmingham with a combined BA in English and drama in 1968. He developed into a talented boy soprano (treble). After his father's death, his family moved to South London, where he attended boarding school before attending Kingswood School in Bath, Somerset.
Curry spent most of his childhood in Plymouth. His elder sister, Judith, was a concert pianist who died of a brain tumour in 2001. His father died of pneumonia in 1958, when Curry was 12 years old. Timothy James Curry was born on 19 April 1946 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, the son of school secretary Patricia (died June 1999) and Royal Navy chaplain James Curry. He has also gained acclaim for his voice acting roles, including his Daytime Emmy Award-winning performance as Captain Hook on Peter Pan & the Pirates (1990–1991), Hexxus in the film FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), King Chicken in Duckman (1994–1997), Sir Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys (1998–2004), and Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2012–2014).Īs a singer, Curry has released three rock-focused studio albums: Read My Lips (1978), Fearless (1979), and Simplicity (1981).
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Other notable film appearances include The Shout (1978), Times Square (1980), The Worst Witch (1986), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Oscar (1991), Congo (1995), Charlie's Angels (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), and Kinsey (2004). Ĭurry received further acclaim for his film and television roles, including Rooster Hannigan in the film adaptation of Annie (1982), Darkness in Legend (1985), Wadsworth in Clue (1985), Pennywise in the miniseries It (1990), the Concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993), and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996).
His theatre accolades include three Tony Award nominations and two Laurence Olivier Award nominations. Frank-N-Furter in the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), reprising the role he had originated in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles musical stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show.Ĭurry's other stage work includes various roles in the original West End production of Hair, Tristan Tzara in the 1975 West End and Broadway productions of Travesties, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1980 Broadway production of Amadeus, 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. Timothy James Curry (born 19 April 1946) is an English actor and singer.
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