Tim Curry
Born: 1946-04-19 in Grappenhall, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
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
2025
2024
- Stream as Lockwood
2023
- King on Screen as Self
- Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life as Self
2022
- Who Done It: The Clue Documentary as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Pennywise: The Story of ‘It’ as Himself
- Rocky Horror 45: The Movie as Self
2016
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again as The Narrator/Criminologist
- The More I Know as (voice)
2015
- Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell as Self - Interviewed in 1974 (archive footage)
2014
- Over the Garden Wall as Auntie Whispers (voice)
- Ribbit as Terrence
2013
- Saving Santa as Neville Baddington (voice)
- Axel: The Biggest Little Hero as Papa Qi (voice)
- Gingerclown as Gingerclown
2012
- Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja as The Sorcerer (voice)
- The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange as Professor Plum (voice)
- Strange Frame as Dorlan Mig (voice)
- The Outback as Blacktooth (voice)
- Back To The Sea as Eric (voice)
- What About Dick? as Reverend Whoopsie
2011
- The Voyages of Young Doctor Dolittle as Doctor Dolittle (voice)
2010
- Regular Show as Master Prank Caller #2 (voice)
- Young Justice as G. Gordon Godfrey (voice)
- A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures as Fluffy (voice)
- Burke & Hare as Dr. Monroe
- The North Star
2009
- Barbie and the Three Musketeers as Philippe (voice)
- The Secret of Moonacre as Coeur De Noir
- Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey! as Piccadilly (voice)
- Alice as Dodo
2008
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Chancellor Palpatine (voice)
- Ben 10: Alien Force as Dr. Chadwick / Knight #2 (voice)
- The Colour of Magic as Trymon
- Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King as The Goblin King (voice)
- Fly Me to the Moon as Yegor (voice)
- Starz Inside: Ladies or Gentlemen as Self
2007
- Phineas and Ferb as Stubbings (voice)
- Cranford as Signor Brunoni
- Christmas in Wonderland as McLoosh
- The Chosen One as Lucifer
- Eloise Goes to School
2006
- Psych as Nigel St. Nigel
- Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties as Prince (voice)
- Me, Eloise as Mr. Salamone (voice)
- Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide as Professor Calamitous (voice)
- A Sesame Street Christmas Carol as Narrator (voice)
- Queer Duck: The Movie as Peccary (voice)
- Little Miss Christmas as Mr. Salamone (voice)
2005
- Criminal Minds as Billy Flynn
- Valiant as Von Talon (voice)
- Loonatics Unleashed as The Ringmaster (voice)
- Mucha Lucha: The Return of El Malefico as El Maléfico (voice)
- Bailey's Billion$ as Caspar Pennington
2004
- Kinsey as Thurman Rice
2003
- Duck Dodgers as Magnificent Rogue (voice)
- Rugrats Go Wild as Nigel Thornberry (voice)
- Jimmy Neutron: Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion as Professor Calamitous (voice)
- The Not So Golden Calf: Commandments 1-2 as Hazzaka(voice)
2002
- Monk as Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius as Professor Calamitous (voice)
- Pet Star as Self - Judge
- Ozzy & Drix as Nick O'Teen (voice)
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie as Nigel Thornberry (voice)
- Teamo Supremo as Laser Pirate (voice)
- Family Affair as Mr. French
- The Scoundrel's Wife as Father Antoine
- I Love Muppets as Self
- Ritual as Matthew Hope
- Creating a Myth... the Memories of 'Legend' as Himself
- I, Crocodile as Narrator (voice)
2001
- Samurai Jack as Worm 1 (voice)
- Scary Movie 2 as Prof. Oldman
- Barbie in the Nutcracker as Mouse King (voice)
- The Proud Family
- Attila as Theodosius
- Wolf Girl as Harley Dune
- Gary & Mike as Killer (voice)
- The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie as Nigel Thornberry (voice)
2000
- Charlie's Angels as Roger Corwin
- Sorted as Damian Kemp
- Rugrats in Paris: The Movie as Sumo Singer (voice)
- Bette
- Lion of Oz as Captain Fitzgerald (voice)
- Four Dogs Playing Poker as Felix
1999
- Batman Beyond as Mutro Botha (voice)
- Where Are They Now? as Self
- Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost as Ben Ravencroft (voice)
- Bartok the Magnificent as The Skull (voice)
- Redwall as Slagar (voice)
- The Brothers Flub as (voice)
- The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot as Dr. Neugog (voice)
- Get Bruce! as Self
- Xyber 9: New Dawn as King Renard (voice)
- Jackie's Back! as Edward Whatsett St. John
- Pirates of the Plain as Jezebel Jack
- Behind the Music: The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Self
- The Titanic Chronicles as (voice)
1998
- Will & Grace as Marion Finster
- The Wild Thornberrys as Nigel Thornberry (voice)
- Addams Family Reunion as Gomez Addams
- The Rugrats Movie as Rex Pester (voice)
- Voltron: The Third Dimension as Prince Lotor (voice)
- The Net as Sorcerer
1997
- Lexx as Poet Man
- Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas as Forte (voice)
- A Christmas Carol as Ebenezer Scrooge (voice)
- Teen Angel as Frog (voice)
- Over the Top as Simon Ferguson
- Super Nova as Poet Man
- Mighty Ducks the Movie: The First Face-Off as Lord Dragaunus (voice)
- McHale's Navy as Maj. Vladikov
- Bruno the Kid: The Animated Movie as Lazlo Gigahurtz (voice) (archive footage)
- Doom Runners as Dr. Kao
1996
- Hey Arnold! as Mr. Leichliter (voice)
- Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series as Lord Dragaunus (voice)
- Jumanji as Trader Slick (voice)
- Titanic as Simon Doonan
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues as King Minos (voice)
- Muppet Treasure Island as Long John Silver
- Bruno the Kid as Lazlo Gigahurtz (voice)
- Lover's Knot as Cupid's Caseworker
- The Story of Santa Claus as Nostros, the eldest elf (voice)
1995
- The Naked Truth as Sir Rudolph Haley
- The Mask: Animated Series
- Freakazoid! as Dr. Mystico (voice)
- Congo as Herkermer Homolka
- The Pebble and the Penguin as Drake (voice)
- Daisy-Head Mayzie as Finagle (voice)
- The Rocky Horror Double Feature Video Show as Self
1994
- Gargoyles as Dr. Anton Sevarius (voice)
- Aladdin
- Duckman as King Chicken (voice)
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters as Zimbo (voice)
- The Shadow as Farley Claymore
- Earth 2 as Gaal
- Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? as Maelstrom (voice)
- Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad as Kilokahn (voice)
- Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad: The Glitch That Stole Christmas as Kilokahn (voice)
- Turbocharged Thunderbirds as The Atrocimator
1993
- The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu
- Sonic the Hedgehog as King Acorn / Keeper of the Time Stones (voice)
- National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1 as Jigsaw
1992
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York as Concierge
- Batman: The Animated Series as Robot Clown (voice)
- The Little Mermaid as The Evil Manta (voice)
- Eek! The Cat as Narrator (voice)
- Tales from the Crypt - Uncut
- FernGully: The Last Rainforest as Hexxus (voice)
- Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
- Passed Away as Boyd Pinter
- Fish Police as Sharkster
- Capitol Critters
- Defenders of Dynatron City as Atom Ed, The Floating Head (voice)
1991
- Dinosaurs as Fox Jacket (voice)
- Darkwing Duck
- The Legend of Prince Valiant as Gawain (voice)
- Oscar as Dr. Thornton Poole
- The Pirates of Dark Water as Konk (voice)
- Timeless Tales: The Steadfast Tin Soldier as Jack-in-The-Box
- Darkwing Duck: Darkly Dawns The Duck as Taurus Bulba (voice)
1990
- It as Pennywise
- TaleSpin as Thaddeos E. Klang (voice)
- Tom & Jerry Kids Show as Sheriff of Rottingham (voice)
- Tiny Toon Adventures as Reginald / Prince Charles (voice)
- Captain Planet and the Planeteers as Mal
- The Hunt for Red October as Dr. Yevgeni Petrov (Red October)
- Peter Pan & the Pirates as Captain Hook (voice)
- Tales from the Darkside as Pirate (voice)
- Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin as Self - Vocals
- Gravedale High as Mr. Tutner (voice)
- The Easter Story as Judas Iscariot (voice)
- The Marzipan Pig as Narrator (voice)
1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot as Lord Boynton
- Tales from the Crypt as Pa Brackett / Ma Brackett / Winona Brackett (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
- Paddington Bear as Mr. Curry
1988
- Abel's Island as Abel (voice)
- The Creation - Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible as The Serpent (Voice)
- Pass the Ammo as Rev. Ray Porter
1987
1986
- The Worst Witch as The Grand Wizard
1985
- Clue as Wadsworth
- Legend as Lord of "Darkness"
- Blue Money as Larry Gormley
- Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain as Eden Rothwell Esq.
1983
- Video Stars as Tommy Whazz
- The Ploughman's Lunch as Jeremy Hancock
1982
- Annie as Rooster Hannigan
- Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical as Self / Rooster
- Oliver Twist as Bill Sikes
1980
- Times Square as Johnny LaGuardia
1979
- Okay as Self
1978
- City Sugar as Leonard Brazil
- The Shout as Robert Graves
- Bio’s Bahnhof as Self
- Life of Shakespeare as William Shakespeare
- Will Shakespeare as William Shakespeare
1976
- Rock Follies as Stevie Streeter
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
- Three Men in a Boat as Jerome K Jerome
1974
- Schmoedipus as Glen
- Napoleon and Love as Eugene
1973
- Vérité as Mik
1971
- Disco as Self
1970
- Play for Today as Glen
- Ace of Wands as Cashier
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
- Armchair Theatre as Mick
1953
- The Oscars as Self