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).
9
9
5
A bashful bachelor penguin named Hubie, who's partial to a pretty female named Marina. Ancient pengu...
More info
9
9
6
A pair of lovers have no idea that their affair is overseen and orchestrated by an angel sent by Cup...
More info
An animated musical that explains how a toymaker named Nicholas Claus (voice of Edward Asner) starte...
More info
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack...
More info9
9
7
A direct-to-video feature film, Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off, was released in 1997. It...
More info
Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seated hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to c...
More info
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
More info
As things settle down on the Lexx, the crew realizes Kai needs a constant supply of proto-blood to c...
More info
Retired Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale spends his days puttering around the Caribbean in the ol...
More info
In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of children move from one uncertain world to another in their q...
More info9
9
8
The Addams Family goes on a search for their relatives. Gomez and Morticia are horrified to discover...
More info
The Pickles family welcome a new arrival, Dil, whose constant crying and need for attention quickly ...
More info9
9
9
Albino bat Bartok – former sidekick to the wicked Grigori Rasputin – ventures to prove his true wort...
More info
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a ...
More info
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback c...
More info0
0
0
A group of rambunctious toddlers travel a trip to Paris. As they journey from the Eiffel Tower to No...
More info
The Cowardly Lion, of the Omaha Circus and close friends with balloonist Oscar Diggs, is swept away ...
More info
The captivating crime-fighting trio who are masters of disguise, espionage and martial arts are back...
More info0
0
1
Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, get...
More info
The Mouse King casts an evil spell over Clara that causes her to shrink. Clara and the Nutcracker se...
More info
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie ...
More info0
0
2
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the te...
More info0
0
3
When the Rugrats find themselves stranded on a deserted island, they meet the Thornberrys, a family ...
More info0
0
4
0
0
5
0
0
6
Cartoon worlds collide in this hourlong adventure starring whiz kid Jimmy Neutron and Timmy Turner f...
More info
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruli...
More info
Queer Duck and his partner of 18 months (a lifetime in gay years), Stephen Arlo "Openly" Gator, hit ...
More info0
0
7
...he's lost his job, totaled his car, and been attacked by a bear. Just when it seems like life can...
More info
Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to Edmonton. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall they...
More info0
0
8
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy must go into the underworld ruled by The Goblin King in order to stop a mortal...
More info
Why do movie audiences find men in skirts and women in pants anything but a drag? Discover the playf...
More info0
0
9
The film chronicles George's adventures as he befriends Kayla, a baby elephant, at a magic circus sh...
More info
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced ...
More info
Corinne is a young country girl who heads to Paris to pursue her big dream – to become a female musk...
More info0
1
0
Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy races across the beach to the ocean wh...
More info
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable busin...
More info0
1
1
0
1
2
When little fish Kevin is swept up in a net and taken from his home in the vast oceans to the small ...
More info
28th century, 200 years after the Great Earth Exodus. Naia, a feisty, young singer/songwriter, falls...
More info
The movie begins with the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898 by Deepak Rushdie Obi Ben...
More info
Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmani...
More info0
1
3
1983: A group of high school students are having a great time near Hollywood Hills at the weekend wh...
More info
A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using...
More info0
1
4
0
1
5
Documentary featuring an intimate profile of American rock legend Meat Loaf, spanning from his child...
More info0
1
6
After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter th...
More info0
1
7
0
1
8
0
1
9
0
2
0
0
2
1
Thirty-plus years after its release, the popular two-part miniseries "It" and its infamous villain P...
More info0
2
2
Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never...
More info0
2
3
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors ...
More info
Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stream (2024) | Lockwood | 5.5 | |
| 2 | King on Screen (2023) | Self | - | - |
| 3 | Who Done It: The Clue Documentary (2022) | Self (archive footage) | 7 | |
| 4 | Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ (2021) | Himself | 7 | |
| 5 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) | The Narrator/Criminologist | 6.2 | |
| 6 | Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell (2015) | Self - Interviewed in 1974 (archive footage) | 6 | |
| 7 | Gingerclown (2013) | Gingerclown | - | - |
| 8 | Saving Santa (2013) | Neville Baddington (voice) | 6.5 | |
| 9 | Back to the Sea (2012) | Eric (voice) | 6 | |
| 10 | Strange Frame (2012) | Dorlan Mig (voice) | 5 | |
| 11 | What About Dick? (2012) | Reverend Whoopsie | - | - |
| 12 | The Outback (2012) | Blacktooth (voice) | 1 | |
| 13 | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010) | Fluffy (voice) | 7 | |
| 14 | Burke & Hare (2010) | Dr. Monroe | 6.1 | |
| 15 | Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! (2009) | Piccadilly (voice) | 6.3 | |
| 16 | The Secret of Moonacre (2009) | Coeur De Noir | 6.3 | |
| 17 | Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) | Philippe (voice) | 7 | |
| 18 | Fly Me to the Moon (2008) | Yegor (voice) | 4 | |
| 19 | Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King (2008) | The Goblin King (voice) | 8 | |
| 20 | Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen (2008) | Self | - | - |
| 21 | The Chosen One (2007) | Lucifer | - | - |
| 22 | Christmas in Wonderland (2007) | McLoosh | 5 | |
| 23 | Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide (2006) | Professor Calamitous (voice) | 2 | |
| 24 | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) | Prince (voice) | 5.3 | |
| 25 | Queer Duck: The Movie (2006) | Peccary (voice) | 6 | |
| 26 | Valiant (2005) | Von Talon (voice) | 6.1 | |
| 27 | Kinsey (2004) Oscars 2005 | Thurman Rice | 5.3 | |
| 28 | Rugrats Go Wild (2003) | Nigel Thornberry (voice) | 6.2 | |
| 29 | Ritual (2002) | Matthew Hope | 4 | |
| 30 | The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) Oscars 2003 | Nigel Thornberry / Col. Radcliff Thornberry (voice) | 5.8 | |
| 31 | The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie (2001) | Nigel Thornberry (voice) | - | - |
| 32 | Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) | Mouse King (voice) | 8.3 | |
| 33 | Scary Movie 2 (2001) | Prof. Oldman | 5.7 | |
| 34 | Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) | Sumo Singer (voice) | 6 | |
| 35 | Lion of Oz (2000) | Captain Fitzgerald (voice) | - | - |
| 36 | Sorted (2000) | Damian Kemp | - | - |
| 37 | Charlie's Angels (2000) | Roger Corwin | 6.2 | |
| 38 | Bartok the Magnificent (1999) | The Skull (voice) | 9 | |
| 39 | Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999) | Ben Ravencroft (voice) | 7.6 | |
| 40 | Jackie's Back! (1999) | Edward Whatsett St. John | - | - |
| 41 | Addams Family Reunion (1998) | Gomez Addams | 5.4 | |
| 42 | The Rugrats Movie (1998) | Rex Pester (voice) | 6.3 | |
| 43 | Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off (1997) | Lord Dragaunus (voice) | 7 | |
| 44 | Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997) | Forte (voice) | 6.3 | |
| 45 | A Christmas Carol (1997) | Ebenezer Scrooge (voice) | 7 | |
| 46 | Super Nova (1997) | Poet Man | - | - |
| 47 | McHale's Navy (1997) | Maj. Vladikov | 6.7 | |
| 48 | Doom Runners (1997) | Dr. Kao | - | - |
| 49 | Lover's Knot (1996) | Cupid's Caseworker | - | - |
| 50 | The Story of Santa Claus (1996) | Nostros, the eldest elf (voice) | 8 | |
| 51 | Muppet Treasure Island (1996) | Long John Silver | 7.9 | |
| 52 | The Pebble and the Penguin (1995) | Drake (voice) | - | - |
| 53 | Congo (1995) | Herkermer Homolka | 5.7 | |
| 54 | The Shadow (1994) | Farley Claymore | 6.8 | |
| 55 | National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) | Jigsaw | 6.6 | |
| 56 | The Three Musketeers (1993) | Cardinal Richelieu | 6.6 | |
| 57 | Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) | Concierge | 7 | |
| 58 | Passed Away (1992) | Boyd Pinter | - | - |
| 59 | FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) | Hexxus (voice) | 6.7 | |
| 60 | Oscar (1991) | Dr. Thornton Poole | 6.4 | |
| 61 | The Hunt for Red October (1990) | Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October) | 7.7 | |
| 62 | Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin (1990) | Self - Vocals | - | - |
| 63 | Pass the Ammo (1988) | Rev. Ray Porter | - | - |
| 64 | The Worst Witch (1986) | The Grand Wizard | 7 | |
| 65 | Blue Money (1985) | Larry Gormley | - | - |
| 66 | Clue (1985) | Wadsworth | 7.7 | |
| 67 | Legend (1985) | Lord of "Darkness" | 6.2 | |
| 68 | The Ploughman's Lunch (1983) | Jeremy Hancock | 3 | |
| 69 | Annie (1982) | Rooster Hannigan | 7.5 | |
| 70 | Times Square (1980) | Johnny LaGuardia | - | - |
| 71 | The Shout (1978) | Robert Graves | - | - |
| 72 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) | Dr. Frank-N-Furter | 7.8 | |
| 73 | Schmoedipus (1974) | Glen | - | - |
