{"id":42601,"date":"2026-08-26T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42601"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:36:42","slug":"rip-tim-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42601","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Tim Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z082626rip_tim_curry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Curry passed away last night.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.\u00a0 Mr. Curry suffered a serious stroke in 2012 and serious health issues after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Curry knew from an early age that he wanted to be an actor.\u00a0 In 1968, he graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BA degree in English and drama.\u00a0 The same year, Mr. Curry earned a role as part of the original London cast of <em>Hair<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0 That&#8217;s when he met Richard O&#8217;Brien who would go on to write <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em> theater production became a smash hit.\u00a0 It played in London, Los Angeles and New York City and made Tim Curry a star.\u00a0 Following the run of <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>, Tim Curry would work on stage, feature films and television for the rest of his career.\u00a0 In addition to acting, Mr. Curry also has success as a singer.\u00a0 He not only sang in some of his film roles but had three solo albums released during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the honors and awards Mr. Curry received include&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1991 <strong><em>Daytime Emmy<\/em><\/strong> winner &#8211; <em>Outstanding Performer in a Children&#8217;s Series<\/em> &#8211; <em>Peter Pan and the Pirates<\/em> -for playing <em>&#8220;Captain Hook&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1994 <strong>Primetime Emmy<\/strong> nominee &#8211; <em>Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series<\/em> &#8211; <em>Tales from the Crypt<\/em> &#8211; for playing <em>&#8220;Mother\/Father\/Sister\/Daughter&#8221;<\/em> in the episode <em>&#8220;Death Of Some Salesman&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1995 <strong><em>CableACE<\/em><\/strong> nominee for <em>Actor in a Dramatic Series<\/em> &#8211; <em>Tales from the Crypt<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">1995 <strong><em>Daytime Emmy<\/em><\/strong> nominee for <em>Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program<\/em> &#8211; <em>Mighty Max<\/em> &#8211; For playing <em>&#8220;Skullmaster&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">2002<strong> Grammy<\/strong> nominee &#8211; <em>Best Spoken Word Album for Children<\/em> &#8211; for <em>&#8220;A Series of Unfortunate Events &#8211; Book 1: The Bad Beginning (Lemony Snicket)&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of Tim Curry&#8217;s television performances include: <em>Television Theater From&#8230;; Armchair Theater; Napoleon and Love<\/em> (4 episodes); <em>Play for Today; Three Men in a Boat; Rock Follies &#8217;77; Will Shakespeare<\/em> (6 episodes); <em>Tim Curry: I Do Rock; Oliver Twist; The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>The Tracey Ulman Show<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Wiseguy<\/em> (6 episodes); <em>Fantastic Max<\/em> (4 episodes); <em>Padington Bear<\/em> (13 episodes); <em>Gravedale High<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>It<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Talespin<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Peter Pan and the Pirates<\/em> (59 episodes); <em>Fish Police<\/em> (6 episodes); <em>Batman the Animated Series<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Darkwing Duck<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda<\/em> (33 episodes); <em>Roseanne<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>The Pirates of Dark Water<\/em> (20 episodes); <em>The Legend of Prince Valiant<\/em> (64 episodes); <em>Tales from the Crypt; Dinosaurs<\/em> (7 episodes); <em>Aladin<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>Mighty Max<\/em> (4 episodes); <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em> (12 episodes);<em> Earth 2<\/em> (4 episodes); <em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em> (13 episodes); <em>Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad<\/em> (53 episodes); <em>The Naked Truth<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Captain Plant and the Planeteers<\/em> (27 episodes);<em> Gargoyles<\/em> (7 episodes); <em>Mighty Ducks<\/em> (22 episodes); <em>The Mask<\/em> (14 episodes); <em>Duckman: Private Dick\/Family Man<\/em> (1o episodes); <em>Ahh! Real Monsters<\/em> (19 episodes); <em>Jumanji<\/em> (18 episodes); <em>Rude Awakening<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>Rude Awakening<\/em> (6 episodes);<em> Tales from the Crypt; Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Gary &amp; Mike; Samurai Jack; Monk; Will &amp; Grace<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Hey Arnold!<\/em> (3 episodes); <em>The Wild Thornberrys<\/em> (90 episodes); <em>Monty Python&#8217;s Spamalot; Duck Dodgers; The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius<\/em> (7 episodes); <em>Me, Eloise<\/em> (13 episodes); <em>Psych; Criminal Minds<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Regular Show<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Phineas and Ferb<\/em> (2 episodes); <em>Young Justice<\/em> (8 episodes); <em>Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja<\/em> (19 episodes); <em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars<\/em> (10 episodes); <em>Over the Gaarden Wall; The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let&#8217;s Do the Time Warp Again<\/em> and <em>Rocky Horror Show: Livestream Theater.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of Tim Curry&#8217;s feature film appearances include: <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show; Annie; Legend; Clue; The Hunt for Red October; Oscar; Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; Loaded Weapon; The Shadow; Congo; Muppet Treasure Island; McHale&#8217;s Navy; Charlie&#8217;s Angels; Rugrats in Paris; Scary Movie 2<\/em> and <em>Kinsey.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first became aware of Tim Curry (like most folks) from his role in <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show<\/em>. Whenever he popped up in a movie or television show, I always enjoyed his performance.\u00a0 \u00a0I have three favorite Tim Curry fim appearances: <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Legend<\/em> and of course, <em>Oscar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Tim Curry&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Curry passed away last night.\u00a0 No cause of death was given.\u00a0 Mr. Curry suffered a serious stroke in 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42602,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42601\/revisions\/42602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}