Tim Curry, the English actor and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' star, died on August 26, 2026, at age 80. Known for iconic roles in 'It' and 'Clue,' he received tributes from Broadway cast members and fellow actors.
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at the age of 80.
Actor Tim Curry, known for his roles in "Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Clue" and the television adaptation of "It," has died at the age of 80. NBC News' Erin McLaughlin reports.
Tim Curry, the actor known for his iconic roles in films like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "It," has died. He was 80.
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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80
Tim Curry, the iconic star of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "It," has died at the age of 80, according to reports.
The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.
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Tim Curry, the British actor whose long career included a cult role in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," has died, multiple news outlets report. He was 80 years old.
Tim Curry, actor famed for 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' dead at 80 Reuters
Tim Curry has died at 80.
Aug 26 - Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad \"sweet transvestite\" in the 1975 cult classic \"The Rocky Horror Picture Show,\" has died at the age of 80, Variety and other outlets reported.
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The British actor known for scene-stealing roles in cult classics and blockbusters like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Home Alone 2" has died.
Tim Curry, iconic character actor and ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ star, dies at 80 AP News
BREAKING: Tim Curry, the iconic character actor who starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," has died at at 80.
Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/au...
The death has been announced of the British actor Tim Curry, best known for his starring role in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80.
Curry was renowned for his portrayals of Dr Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise the Clown in the 1990s film adaption of the Stephen King thriller It.
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"I like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they're a tad more interesting," Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.
Breaking News: Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80.
The gender-bending role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter put Curry on the map in 1975. He then went on to play a number of villainous roles like Gomez Addams, Pennywise and Bill Sikes, but also Mozart and William Shakespeare.
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# News Tim Curry, the English actor who became a massively popular cult figure thanks to his performances in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” “Clue” and the TV miniseries “It,” has died. He was 80.
Curry, whose famed roles included Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise in It, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles.
The prolific British stage, screen and voice actor was best known for his starring roles in the cult ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’, ‘Clue’, ‘It’ and ‘Muppet Treasure Island’.
The Great Tim Curry has passed away. Tim Curry died Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles at the age of eighty. His probably best known for his portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also played chilling Pennywise the clown the original It miniseries. He had faced serious health issues since a major stroke in 2012. https://www. nytimes.com/2026/08/26/movies/ tim-cu
RIP Tim Curry. I remember what a huge impact The Rocky Horror Picture Show had on me when I first saw it at my university's campus theater.
The actor struggled with his health for more than a decade.
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Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad “sweet transvestite” in the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at the age of 80, his manager said on Wednesday. A cause of death was not immediately given, but Curry had been in ill health for some time. He died peacefully on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles, his manager s
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Carol Burnett said that no one could play "lovable villains" like Curry.
Watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show in honour of Tim Curry 💔
TIM CURRY (1946-2026) The Rocky Horror Picture Show wasn't a big hit when it came out. Not one single Oscar nomination, though Curry's perf wold become one of the most iconic of the 1970s.
Tim Curry died aged 80 after years of health challenges following a 2012 stroke.
His performance as Frank-N-Furter, the cross-dressing mad scientist of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” was ahead of its time.
Tim Curry, iconic character actor and 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' star, dies at 80 https://www. newsday.com/entertainment/tim- curry-dies-obituary-i85633
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”
On Halloween 1985, Barry Bostwick and Richard O'Brien, stars of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," joined CBS News to mark 10 years since the cult classic's release. Tim Curry, who portrayed the film's antagonist, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, died Tuesday at the age of 80.
From The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Home Alone 2, Tim Curry took camp and villainy to a whole other level on stage and screen.
Tim Curry was a versatile performer of stage and screen who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. Curry’s best-known roles often required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in some of them. As Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s eccentric scientist, he was daubed in garish makeup and dressed in stockings and suspenders
Broadway actors pay tribute to Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, during a special performance at Studio 54.