00:00Screen and stage actor Tim Curry has died at the age of 80. His range on stage and screen
00:07extended from the lovable oddball to the darkly villainous with everything in between.
00:18Perhaps best known for his role as the flamboyant Dr. Frankenfurter in the Rocky Horror Picture
00:23Show, or the chilling Pennywise in the screen adaptation of Stephen King's It, and the
00:28swashbuckling traitor Long John Silver in The Muppets Treasure Island.
00:33Long John Silver, at your humble service. On stage he was notably a member of the original West End
00:40cast of Hair in 1968. He went on to play Mozart in the Broadway transfer of Armideus in 1980,
00:48and King Arthur in the Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot in 2005.
00:53Sorry, didn't mean to frighten anyone. You're a bit late for that!
00:57His performances earned cult followings in the 1985 murder mystery comedy Clue,
01:02and in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2 Lost in New York.
01:08This is the concierge, sir.
01:11In 2012, Curry suffered a major stroke that required surgery and left him in a wheelchair.
01:17Curry's manager Marsha Hurwitz confirmed he had died peacefully at home in Los Angeles.
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01:28deep review has happened here and is close to him for years.
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