In 1973, Tim Curry appeared on stage in a small production that his friend Richard O'Brien had written, "The Rocky Horror Show." The sexually ambiguous alien and scientist Frank-N-Furter would become Curry's role of a lifetime, and both he and the 1975 film version became cult classics.
Curry returned to the role several times, both on stage and on television, but he also terrified audiences as the horror clown Pennywise in the television version of Stephen King's "It" in 1990, and amused them as the hotel doorman whom Macaulay Culkin tries to avoid in "Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York".
In addition to his film career, he often appeared on stage, including as Mozart in the first Broadway production of "Amadeus" in 1980, and a quarter of a century later as King Arthur in Monty Python's "Spamalot".
In 2012, he suffered a stroke, but continued to work. His manager tells Variety that Curry passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles.
