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Tim Curry

Born 1946-04-19

📍 Grappenhall, England, UK

Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 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).

Filmography 227

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

as Self (archive footage)

Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life

as Self (archive footage)

Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’

Rocky Horror 45: The Movie

The More I Know

The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again

as The Narrator/Criminologist

Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell

as Self - Interviewed in 1974 (archive footage)

Over the Garden Wall

as Auntie Whispers (voice)

as Neville Baddington (voice)

Axel: The Biggest Little Hero

as Papa Qi (voice)

What About Dick?

as Reverend Whoopsie

Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja

as The Sorcerer (voice)

The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange

as Professor Plum (voice)

The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange

as Endive / Arugula (voice)

as Dorlan Mig (voice)

Back to the Sea

as Eric (voice)

as Blacktooth (voice)

The Voyages of Young Doctor Dolittle

as Doctor Dolittle (voice)

as G. Gordon Godfrey (voice)

as Master Prank Caller #2 (voice)

as Hot Dog Leader (voice)

A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures

as Fluffy (voice)

Barbie and the Three Musketeers

as Philippe (voice)

Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!

as Piccadilly (voice)

The Secret of Moonacre

as Coeur De Noir

Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Chancellor Palpatine (voice)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Darth Sidious (voice)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)

Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King

as The Goblin King (voice)

Fly Me to the Moon

as Yegor (voice)

Ben 10: Alien Force

as Dr. Chadwick / Knight #2 (voice)

The Colour of Magic

Christmas in Wonderland

as Signor Brunoni

Phineas and Ferb

as Stubbings (voice)

Little Miss Christmas

as Mr. Salamone (voice)

A Sesame Street Christmas Carol

as Narrator (voice)

as Mr. Salamone (voice)

Queer Duck: The Movie

as Peccary (voice)

as Nigel St. Nigel

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

as Prince (voice)

Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide

as Professor Calamitous (voice)

Loonatics Unleashed

as The Ringmaster (voice)

Bailey's Billion$

as Caspar Pennington

Jimmy Neutron: The League of Villains

as Professor Calamitous(voice)

as Von Talon (voice)

Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Malefico

as El Maléfico (voice)

as Thurman Rice

Jimmy Neutron: Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion

as Professor Calamitous (voice)

as Magnificent Rogue (voice)

Rugrats Go Wild

as Nigel Thornberry (voice)

The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2

as Hazzaka(voice)

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

as Nigel Thornberry / Col. Radcliff Thornberry (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

as Matthew Hope

as Nick O'Teen (voice)

as Scarlet Fever (voice)

as Self - Judge

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

as Professor Calamitous (voice)

as Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck

Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend'

The Scoundrel's Wife

as Father Antoine

as Laser Pirate (voice)

Barbie in the Nutcracker

as Mouse King (voice)

The Proud Family

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

as Nigel Thornberry (voice)

as Worm 1 (voice)

as Prof. Oldman

as Killer (voice)

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

as Sumo Singer (voice)

Charlie's Angels

as Roger Corwin

as Captain Fitzgerald (voice)

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Pirates of the Plain

as Jezebel Jack

Behind the Music: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost

as Ben Ravencroft (voice)

The Brothers Flub

Xyber 9: New Dawn

as King Renard (voice)

The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

as Dr. Neugog (voice)

as Slagar (voice)

Bartok the Magnificent

as The Skull (voice)

as Edward Whatsett St. John

as Mutro Botha (voice)

The Titanic Chronicles

Addams Family Reunion

as Gomez Addams

The Rugrats Movie

as Rex Pester (voice)

as The One (voice)

as Marion Finster

Voltron: The Third Dimension

as Prince Lotor (voice)

The Wild Thornberrys

as Nigel Thornberry (voice)

A Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)

Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

as Forte (voice)

as Simon Ferguson

as Frog (voice)

Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie

as Lazlo Gigahurtz (voice) (archive footage)

as Maj. Vladikov

Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off

as Lord Dragaunus (voice)

The Story of Santa Claus

as Nostros, the eldest elf (voice)

as Simon Doonan

as Mr. Leichliter (voice)

as Lazlo Gigahurtz (voice)

as Trader Slick (voice)

Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series

as Lord Dragaunus (voice)

Adventures from the Book of Virtues

as King Minos (voice)

as Cupid's Caseworker

Muppet Treasure Island

as Long John Silver

The Naked Truth

as Sir Rudolph Haley

as Dr. Mystico (voice)

The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show

The Mask: Animated Series

The Mask: Animated Series

as Pretorius (voice)

as Herkermer Homolka

The Pebble and the Penguin

as Drake (voice)

Daisy-Head Mayzie

as Finagle (voice)

Turbocharged Thunderbirds

as The Atrocimator

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: The Glitch That Stole Christmas

as Kilokahn (voice)

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

as Zimbo (voice)

as Dr. Anton Sevarius (voice)

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad

as Kilokahn (voice)

as Farley Claymore

as King Chicken (voice)

as King Chicken / Prof. Edwin Byer (voice)

as King Chicken / Morris Needleman (voice)

as King Chicken / Regine Poulet (voice)

as King Chicken / Tony Sterling (voice)

as Simon Desmond (voice)

Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

as Maelstrom (voice)

The Three Musketeers

as Cardinal Richelieu

Sonic the Hedgehog

as King Acorn / Keeper of the Time Stones (voice)

Sonic the Hedgehog

as King Acorn (voice)

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa

The Little Mermaid

as The Evil Manta (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

as Robot Clown (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

as Leon's Henchman (voice)

FernGully: The Last Rainforest

as Hexxus (voice)

as Sharkster (voice)

Defenders of Dynatron City

as Atom Ed, The Floating Head (voice)

Capitol Critters

Timeless Tales: The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Darkwing Duck: Darkly Dawns The Duck

as Taurus Bulba (voice)

The Legend of Prince Valiant

as Gawain (voice)

as Dr. Thornton Poole

as Fox Jacket (voice)

as Pterodactyl (voice)

as Henri Poupon (voice)

as Chief Elder (voice)

as Winston (voice)

as The Devil (voice)

as Jean-Claude (voice)

The Pirates of Dark Water

as Konk (voice)

Tales from the Darkside

as Pirate (voice)

The Marzipan Pig

as Narrator (voice)

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Tiny Toon Adventures

as Reginald / Prince Charles (voice)

Peter Pan & the Pirates

as Captain Hook (voice)

as Thaddeos E. Klang (voice)

Tom & Jerry Kids Show

as Sheriff of Rottingham (voice)

Tom & Jerry Kids Show

as Mr. Banker of Ye Olde Fog Bank (voice)

as Mr. Tutner (voice)

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

as Self - Vocals

The Hunt for Red October

as Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)

The Easter Story

as Judas Iscariot (voice)

Paddington Bear

Tales from the Crypt

as Pa Brackett / Ma Brackett / Winona Brackett (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Lord Boynton

The Creation - Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible

as The Serpent (Voice)

as Abel (voice)

as Rev. Ray Porter

The Worst Witch

as The Grand Wizard

as Lord of "Darkness"

Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain

as Eden Rothwell Esq.

as Larry Gormley

The Ploughman's Lunch

as Jeremy Hancock

as Rooster Hannigan

Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical

as Self / Rooster

as Johnny LaGuardia

as Leonard Brazil

as Robert Graves

Life of Shakespeare

as William Shakespeare

Will Shakespeare

as William Shakespeare

Three Men in a Boat

as Jerome K Jerome

Saturday Night Live

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

as Dr. Frank-N-Furter

Napoleon and Love

The Policeman and the Cook

Armchair Theatre