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Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English
England

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 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, singer, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and voice artist, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, although he has spent a considerable amount of time in Chicago, New York City
New York City

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, and most recently London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, in his role as King Arthur in the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 hit Monty Python's Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
.

y's father, James, was a Methodist Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
 chaplain, and his mother, Patricia, was a school secretary.






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Timothy James "Tim" Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
, singer, composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
 and voice artist, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
, although he has spent a considerable amount of time in Chicago, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, and most recently London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, in his role as King Arthur in the Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 hit Monty Python's Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
.

Early life

Curry's father, James, was a Methodist Royal Navy
Royal Navy

The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British Armed Forces . From the mid-18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early 1940s....
 chaplain, and his mother, Patricia, was a school secretary. Curry was born and raised in Warrington
Warrington

Warrington is a large town, borough status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in Cheshire, England. It stands on the banks of the River Mersey, which is tidal to the west of the weir at Howley....
 and attended Lymm High School
Lymm High School

Lymm High School is an England comprehensive school, located in Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, and with a history stretching back to the late 16th century....
 until his father's death in 1958, when Curry relocated to South London
South London

South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
. He attended Kingswood School
Kingswood School

Kingswood School is a coeducational, public day and boarding school in Bath, Somerset, Somerset, England. The school owns the Kingswood Day Preparatory School, the Upper and Middle Playing Fields, and other buildings....
, Bath, and although he didn't enjoy the religious aspect of the Methodist school, he did enjoy the vast number of hymn
Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities, a prominent figure or an epic tale....
s available. There, he developed into a talented boy soprano
Boy soprano

A boy soprano is a young male singer with an unchanged Human voice in the soprano range. Although a treble, or choirboy, may also be considered to be a boy soprano, the more colloquial term boy soprano is generally only used for boys who sing, perform, or record as soloists, and who may not necessarily be choristers who sing in a boys' ch...
. Deciding to concentrate on acting, Curry graduated from Birmingham University with a combined degree in English and drama.

Acting career


Rocky Horror

Curry's first full-time role was as part of the original London cast of the musical Hair
Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot....
 in 1968, where he first met Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien

Richard Timothy Smith better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English-born, New Zealand-raised writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer....
 who went on to write Curry's next full-time and perhaps still most famous role, that of Dr. Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show
The Rocky Horror Show

The Rocky Horror Show is a long-running United Kingdom musical theater, opening in London on 19 June 1973. It was written by Richard O'Brien, and developed by O'Brien in collaboration with Australian theater director Jim Sharman....
.

Originally, Curry rehearsed the character with a German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 accent
Accent

Accent may refer to:...
 and peroxide
Peroxide

A peroxide is a compound containing an oxygen-oxygen chemical bond. The simplest stable peroxide is hydrogen peroxide. Superoxides, dioxygenyls, ozones and ozonides compound are considered separately....
 blond hair, but the character evolved into the sly, very upper-class English mad scientist
Mad scientist

A mad scientist is a stock character of Genre fiction, specifically science fiction. The mad scientist may be villainous, benign or neutral, and whether psychosis, eccentricity , or simply bumbling, mad scientists often work with fictional technology in order to forward their schemes, if they even have a coherent scheme....
 and transvestite
Transvestism

Transvestism is the practice of cross-dressing, which is wearing the clothing of the opposite sex. Transvestite refers to a person who cross-dresses; however, the word often has additional connotations....
 that carried over to the movie version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom-Cinema of the United States musical film comedy film that parodies science fiction and horror films....
 and made Curry both a star and a cult figure
Cult following

A cult following is a group of fan devoted to a specific area of pop culture. These dedicated followings are usually relatively small, and often pertain to items that don't have broad mainstream appeal....
. He continued to play the character in London, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

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, and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
 until 1975.

For many years, Curry was reluctant to talk about Rocky Horror, feeling that it was a trend that had gone too far and had distracted attention away from his later roles. A VH1
VH1

VH1 is an United States cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in television, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slighter older demographic than its sister channel, focusing on the lighter, softer side of popular music....
 Pop-Up Video
Pop-up Video

Pop-Up Video is a popular VH1 television show that "popped up" bubbles ? officially called "info nuggets" ? containing trivia and wry witticisms throughout music videos....
 Halloween special even quoted Curry as saying he grew so unnerved by all the fan attention after this role that he became "chubby and plain" in order to escape it. However, in recent years he has been much more open about discussing the show and now recognizes it as a "rite of passage
Rite of passage

A rite of passage is a ritual that marks a change in a person's social status. It is a universal phenomenon which can show anthropologists what social hierarchies, values and beliefs are important in specific cultures....
" for many young people.

Theatre

Shortly after the failure of Rocky Horror Show on Broadway, Curry was back on Broadway with Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
's Travesties
Travesties

Travesties is a comedy by British dramatist, Tom Stoppard, first produced at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 10 June 1974, in a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company....
, which ran in London and New York from 1975 to 1976. Travesties was a huge Broadway hit which won two Tony Awards (Best Performance by an Actor for John Wood and Best Comedy), as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (Best Play), and Curry's performance as the famous dadaist Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and France avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement....
 received spectacular reviews.

In 1981, Curry formed part of the original cast in the Broadway show Amadeus
Amadeus

Amadeus is a stage play playwright in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri....
, playing the title character, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
. He was nominated for his first Tony Award
Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play presented since 1947, is awarded to actors in productions of new or revival plays....
 (Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play) for this role, but lost out to his co-star Sir Ian McKellen, who played Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri

Antonio Salieri , was a Republic of Venice composer and Conducting. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time....
. In 1982, Curry took the part of the Pirate King in a London stage version of The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance

The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas....
 opposite George Cole
George Cole

George Edward Cole OBE is an England actor.In an interview included in the 2007 DVD release of A Christmas Carol he recounts that he was given up for adoption at the age of ten days, and adopted by Mr and Mrs George Cole....
.

In the mid 1980s, Curry performed in The Rivals (Bob Acres 1983) and in several plays with the Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre, London, England, is generally known as the National Theatre and commonly as The National. It is located on the The South Bank in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge....
 of Great Britain, including the Threepenny Opera (MacHeath 1986), Dalliance (Theodore 1986), and Love For Love (Tattle 1985). In 1987/1988 Tim Curry did the national tour of "Me and My Girl" as the lead role of 'Bill Snibson'. A role originated on Broadway by Robert Lindsay and followed by Jim Dale.

In 1989/90, Tim Curry returned once again to the New York stage in "The Art of Success". In 1993, Curry played Alan Swann in the Broadway musical version of My Favorite Year
My Favorite Year (musical)

My Favorite Year is a musical theatre with a book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.Based on the My Favorite Year, it is set in the 1950s and centers on Benjy Stone, a sketch writer for a television variety show starring Sid Caesar-like King Kaiser....
, earning him his second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

In late 2004, Curry began his role of King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
 in Spamalot
Spamalot

Monty Python's Spamalot is a musical theatre "lovingly ripped off from" the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like the film, it is a highly irreverent parody of the Arthurian Legend, but it differs from the film in many ways, especially in its parodies of Broadway theatre....
 in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. The show successfully moved to Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
 in February 2005. It brought him a third Tony nomination, again for Best Actor in a Musical.

Curry reprised his role in London's West End
West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
 at the Palace Theatre
Palace Theatre, London

The Palace Theatre, is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus, London, and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road....
, where Spamalot opened on October 16, 2006. His final performance came on January 6, 2007 and he returned to his home in Los Angeles a few days later. On January 18, 2007, Curry was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award as the Best Actor in a Musical; this was one of seven nominations earned by the London production of Spamalot, including Best New Musical. On February 9, 2007, it was announced that Curry also won the Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Award
Theatregoers' Choice Award

The Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Award is an award sponsored by the Whatsonstage that recognises the performers and productions of British theatre with emphasis on London's West End....
 (getting 39% of the votes cast by over 12,000 theatregoers) as Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as King Arthur.

Movies and television

Curry's television and movie credits are long and varied. A partial list of roles:
  • "Madman" in a telefilm of John Webster
    John Webster

    John Webster was an England Literature in English#Jacobean literature dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, often regarded as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage....
    's The Duchess of Malfi
    The Duchess of Malfi

    The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragedy Play , written by the England dramatist John Webster and first performed in 1614 at the Globe Theatre in London....
     (1972)
  • Glen in Schmoedipus, a BBC Play for Today
    Play for Today

    Play for Today was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC One from 1970 to 1984. Over three hundred original plays, most between an hour and ninety minutes in length, were transmitted during the fourteen-year period the series aired, and it is by far the most famous programme of its type t...
     TV episode written by Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter

    Dennis Christopher George Potter was an England dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social....
     and directed by Barry Davis (1974)
  • Dr. Frank N. Furter The Rocky Horror Picture Show
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a 1975 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom-Cinema of the United States musical film comedy film that parodies science fiction and horror films....
     (1975)
  • Jerome K. Jerome
    Jerome K. Jerome

    Jerome Klapka Jerome was an England writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, where there is now a museum in his honour, and was brought up in poverty in London....
     in the BBC's TV movie Three Men in a Boat
    Three Men in a Boat

    Three Men in a Boat , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the River Thames between Kingston upon Thames and Oxford....
     (1975)
  • Has-been rock star Stevie Streeter in Rock Follies of '77 (1977)
  • William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
     in a 6-hour British TV series William Shakespeare: His Life & Times directed by Mark Cullingham, Robert Knights, Peter Wood (1977)
  • Disc jockey Johnny LaGuardia in Times Square
    Times Square (film)

    Times Square is a 1980 in film film starring Trini Alvarado, Robin Johnson, and Tim Curry. The plot of the film essentially embodies a punk rock ethic - misunderstood youth forming a band and, through music, articulating their frustrations toward adult authority, personified in the film as parents, the medical establishment, and politicia...
     (1980)
  • Guest host of Saturday Night Live
    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
     (1981); In one sketch, Curry and Meat Loaf
    Meat Loaf

    Michael Lee Aday , better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an United States rock music musician and actor of theatre and film. He is noted for the Bat out of Hell album trilogy that he created consisting of Bat out of Hell, Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose, and several fa...
     ran a "Rocky Horror" memorabilia store.
  • Larry Gormley in BBC's TV comedy Blue Money (1982)
  • Rooster Hannigan in the musical Annie
    Annie (film)

    Annie is a 1982 Academy Award nominated musical film based upon the popular 1977 stage musical theatre of the same name, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the musical theater by Thomas Meehan ....
     (1982)
  • Lord of Darkness in the film Legend
    Legend (film)

    Legend is a 1985 in film fantasy film released by 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures , directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, Alice Playten, David Bennent and Billy Barty....
     (1985)
  • Wadsworth the Butler in the film Clue
    Clue (film)

    Clue is a 1985 black comedy film based on the board game Cluedo. The film is a murder mystery set in a Gothic Revival architecture mansion. The style takes the idea in the direction of Murder by Death and other various murder/dinner parties of mystery....
     (1985)
  • The Grand Wizard in The Worst Witch
    The Worst Witch

    The Worst Witch is a series of children's novels written and illustrated by Jill Murphy and published by Puffin. They have become some of the most outstandingly successful titles on the Young Puffin paperback list and have sold more than 3 million copies....
     (1986)
  • Pentecostal televangelist in Pass the Ammo
    Pass the Ammo

    Pass the Ammo is a 1988 in film film starring Bill Paxton, Annie Potts, and Tim Curry. The film is a spoof of televangelism released right after the real-life Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart scandals....
     (1988)
  • Rapacious record producer Winston Newquay in Wiseguy
    Wiseguy

    Wiseguy was a United States television program about Vincent "Vinnie" Terranova, an undercover agent of the OCB , a fictional division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
     (1989)
  • Prince Charles (voice) in episode 27 - Europe in 30 Minutes of Tiny Toon Adventures
    Tiny Toon Adventures

    Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated television series created and produced as a collaborative effort between Steven Spielberg's company Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros....
     (1990)
  • The Prosecutor in Roger Waters
    Roger Waters

    George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
    ' 1990 Performance of The Wall Live in Berlin (1990)
  • Pennywise
    It (novel)

    It is a horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1986. It deals with themes which would eventually become King staples: the power of memory, childhood trauma and the ugliness lurking behind a small-town fa?ade....
     in Stephen King's It
    It (1990 film)

    It is a 1990 made-for-TV horror fiction film based on the Stephen King novel of the It ....
     (1990)
  • Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red October (1990)
  • MAL in Captain Planet and the Planeteers
    Captain Planet and the Planeteers

    Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an United States Animated television series Environmentalism television program, based on an idea by Ted Turner and produced by Andy Heyward, Robby London, Barbara Pyle and Nicholas Boxer....
     (1990-1996)
  • Dr. Thornton Poole the elocution
    Elocution

    Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone ....
    ist in the film Oscar
    Oscar (1991 film)

    Oscar is a 1991 in film comedy film directed by John Landis. A remake of the Oscar , the story is set in Great Depression New York and centers around a mob boss trying to go straight....
     (1991)
  • The Plaza Hotel concierge, Mr. Hector, in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
    Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

    Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 in film sequel to the 1990 in film film Home Alone , written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus ....
     (1992)
  • Mr. Jigsaw in the film Loaded Weapon 1
    Loaded Weapon 1

    National Lampoon, Inc.'s Loaded Weapon 1 is a 1993 in film comedy film, directed by Gene Quintano and starring Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson and William Shatner....
     (1993)
  • Roger in 2 episodes of Roseanne
    Roseanne (TV series)

    Roseanne is an United States situation comedy broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from 1988 in television to 1997 in television starring stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr....
     (1993)
  • Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's
    Walt Disney Pictures

    Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company:Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was found as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of the parent company, then named Walt Disney Productions....
     The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers (1993 film)

    The Three Musketeers is a 1993 in film film version of the The Three Musketeers from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Stephen Herek from a screenplay by David Loughery and starring Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell and Oliver Platt....
     (1993)
  • Pa,Ma,and Winoma Breckrenger in Death of Some Salesman from Tales From the Crypt
    Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt may refer to:*Tales from the Crypt , a comic book published by EC Comics during the 1950s*Tales from the Crypt , a horror anthology television series that ran from 1989 to 1996...
    (1993)
  • Corrupt scientist Farley Claymore in The Shadow
    The Shadow (1994 film)

    The Shadow is a 1994 in film action film, directed by Russell Mulcahy, and based on the The Shadow created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931. Alec Baldwin starred in the title role....
     (1994)
  • Gaal in Earth 2
    Earth 2 (TV series)

    Earth 2 is a short-lived science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. The show was canceled after one season of 22 episodes....
     (1994)
  • Herkermer Homolka in Congo
    Congo (film)

    Congo is a 1995 in film Film, based on the 1980 novel Congo by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park of Jurassic Park . It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Tim Curry, Ernie Hudson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Grant Heslov and Joe Don Baker....
     (1995)
  • Long John Silver
    Long John Silver

    Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" ....
     in Muppet Treasure Island
    Muppet Treasure Island

    Muppet Treasure Island is the fifth feature film to star The Muppets. It was released in 1996 and directed by Jim Henson's son Brian Henson....
     (1996)
  • Simon Doonan in the Titanic miniseries
    Titanic (TV miniseries)

    ----Titanic was a made-for-TV movie that premiered on CBS in 1996. Titanic follows several characters on board the RMS Titanic when she sinks on her maiden voyage in 1912....
     (1996)
  • "Poet Man" in Lexx
    LEXX

    Lexx is a science fantasy television series that follows the adventures of a group of mismatched individuals aboard the organic space craft Lexx....
     (1997) in the episode "Supernova"
  • Gomez Addams
    Gomez Addams

    Gomez Addams is the fictional patriarch of The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams for The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s....
     in Addams Family Reunion
    Addams Family Reunion

    Addams Family Reunion was the third movie of The Addams Family series, released straight-to-video in 1998. It was also distributed to television by ABC Family....
     (1998)
  • "The Sorcerer" (voice only) in The Net
    The Net (TV series)

    The Net is a 1998 in television television drama series based on the 1995 in film The Net . The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film....
     (1998-1999)
  • "Jezebel Jack" in Pirates of the Plain
    Pirates of the Plain

    Pirates of the Plain is a 1999 in film independent film family film adventure film starring Tim Curry and Seth Adkins.Pirates of the Plain details the adventure of Jezebel Jack, a pirate that is time travel in fiction where he meets Bobby, a young boy with an overactive imagination....
     (1999) from the creators of Ernest.
  • "Edward Whatsett St. John" in Jackie's Back! (1999)
  • Roger Corwin in Charlie's Angels
    Charlie's Angels (film)

    Charlie's Angels is a 2000 in film American Action film–comedy film, co-produced by Columbia Pictures, Global Entertainment Productions, Tall Tree Productions and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films and directed by McG....
     (2000)
  • Felix in Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
  • Captain Fitzgerald in Lion of Oz (2000)
  • Damien Kemp in Sorted (2000)* Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II
    Theodosius II

    Flavius Theodosius , called the Calligrapher, known in English as Theodosius II, was an Eastern Roman Empire , mostly known for the law code bearing his name, the Codex Theodosianus, and the Walls of Constantinople#The Theodosian Walls of Constantinople built during his reign....
     in "Attila" (2001)
  • Professor Oldman in Scary Movie 2
    Scary Movie 2

    Scary Movie 2 is a 2001 in film American comedy film and is the second film of the Scary Movie franchise....
     (2001)
  • Harley Dune in Wolf Girl
    Wolf Girl

    Wolf Girl is a 2001 Canadian/American horror thriller about a girl who travels with a freak show because of her rare genetic disease, hypertrichosis....
     (sometimes listed as Blood Moon
    Blood Moon

    Blood Moon may refer to:* Blood Moon, a 2008 album by Apes and androids*Xquic, a mythological Mayan heroine sometimes glossed as "Blood Moon"...
     (2001)
  • Vet Matthew Hope in Ritual
    Ritual (film)

    Tales From the Crypt Presents: Ritual is the third film spin-off from the HBO television series Tales from the Crypt , the first being Demon Knight and the second being Bordello of Blood....
     from the Tales from the Crypt (2001)
  • Priest in The Scoundrel's Wife aka Home Front (2002)
  • Thurman Rice in Kinsey
    Kinsey (film)

    Kinsey is a 2004 in film biographical film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Kinsey . As a pioneer in the area of sexology research, his 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behaviour and i...
     (2004)
  • Marion Finster in Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
     (2004)
  • Dale 'The Whale' Biederbeck in Monk
    Monk (TV series)

    Monk is an Television in the United States comedy-drama Television program created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the main character....
     (2004)
  • Caspar Pennington in "Bailey's Billion" (2005)
  • Nigel St. Nigel in Psych
    Psych

    Psych is an Television in the United States comedy television series created by Steve Franks and broadcast on USA Network. The show stars James Roday as Shawn Spencer, a young crime consultant for the Santa Barbara, California Police Department whose "heightened observational skills" and impressive detective instincts allow him to convin...
     second season episode "American Duos
    American Duos

    American Duos is the 16th episode and second season premiere of the USA Network television drama Psych....
    " (2007)
  • Coeur De Noir in The Secret of Moonacre
    The Secret of Moonacre

    The Secret of Moonacre is a film adaptation of the novel The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. The film, which started filming on 1 October 2007, was released in February 2009....
     (2008)
  • Trymon in Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (2008)
  • Lord Greville Boynton in Agatha Christie's Poirot
    Agatha Christie's Poirot

    Agatha Christie's Poirot is a United Kingdom television program drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot....
    : Appointment with Death     (2008)


Voice acting

From the early 1990s onward, Curry has been also become known as a highly-acclaimed voice artist. Notable roles include:
  • Captain James S. Hook
    Captain Hook

    File:DuMaurier.jpgCaptain James Hook is a fictional character and the antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations....
     in Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates
    Peter Pan and the Pirates

    Peter Pan and the Pirates is an animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Broadcasting Company from September 1990 in television to December 1991 in television....
     TV series (1990)
  • Konk in Hanna-Barbera
    Hanna-Barbera

    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
    's TV series Pirates of Dark Water (1990)
  • M.A.L., evil
    Evil

    Evil, in many cultures, is a broad term used to describe intentional negative moral acts or thoughts that are cruel, unjust or selfish. Evil is usually good and evil, which describes acts that are kind, just or unselfish....
     sentient
    Sentience

    Sentience is the ability to feel or perceive subjectivity. It is an important concept in philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of animal rights and in eastern philosophy, as well as in science fiction and the study of artificial intelligence, although in each of these fields the term is used slightly differently....
     computer program and assistant to Dr. Blight in Captain Planet and the Planeteers
    Captain Planet and the Planeteers

    Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an United States Animated television series Environmentalism television program, based on an idea by Ted Turner and produced by Andy Heyward, Robby London, Barbara Pyle and Nicholas Boxer....
     (1990-1993)
  • Sir Gawain in The Legend of Prince Valiant
    The Legend of Prince Valiant

    The Legend of Prince Valiant is an United States animated television series based on the Prince Valiant comic strip created by Hal Foster....
     (1991 - 1994)
  • Taurus Bulba
    Taurus Bulba

    Taurus Bulba was a villain seen in the Disney animated television show Darkwing Duck. He was a very large, muscular bull with dark purple fur most often seen in expensive business suits, and his henchmen were all different types of hoofed mammals....
     in Darkwing Duck
    Darkwing Duck

    Darkwing Duck is an Emmy-nominated United States animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991-1995 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on American Broadcasting Company....
     (1991)
  • Chief Elder in Dinosaurs
    Dinosaurs (TV series)

    Dinosaurs is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on American Broadcasting Company from April 26, 1991 to July 20, 1994....
     TV series (1992-94)
  • Hexxus in FernGully: The Last Rainforest
    FernGully: The Last Rainforest

    FernGully: The Last Rainforest is an animation produced by Kroyer Films, presented by FAI Films and distributed by 20th Century Fox and first released on April 10, 1992....
     (1992)
  • King Maximillian Acorn
    Maximillian Acorn

    In the fictional universe of Sonic the Hedgehog , Maximillian Acorn is the father of Princess Sally Acorn. He is an anthropomorphic, humanoid squirrel, and his current age appears to be somewhere between the mid 50s and early 60s....
     on three episodes of Sonic the Hedgehog (1993)
  • Skullmaster in Mighty Max
    Mighty Max (TV series)

    Mighty Max is an animation action/science fiction/Horror fiction television series which aired from 1993 to 1994 to promote the United Kingdom Mighty Max toys, an offshoot of the Polly Pocket line, created by Bluebird Toys in 1992....
     (1993)
  • Dr. Maelstrom and Lee Jordan in Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?
    Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?

    Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? is a Saturday morning cartoon show based on the series of computer games. It should not be confused with the PBS game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? ....
     (1994)
  • Kilokahn in Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
    Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad

    Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad is an United States television series. It was distributed by Tsuburaya Eiji, Ultracom, DIC Entertainment, and FremantleMedia, and ran for two seasons from September 12, 1994 to July 15, 1996 on American Broadcasting Company, as well as in television syndication....
     (1994)
  • George Herbert Walker "King" Chicken on Duckman
    Duckman

    Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man is an animated sitcom created by Everett Peck and developed by Peck, Jeff Reno and Ron Osborn, based on characters created by Peck in his Dark Horse Comics comic....
     (1994-1997)
  • Dr. Anton Sevarius in Gargoyles
    Gargoyles (TV series)

    Gargoyles is an United States animated television series created by Greg Weisman. It was produced by Greg Weisman and Frank Paur and aired from October 24, 1994 to February 15, 1997....
     (1994)
  • Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster
    Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

    Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster is a graphic adventure computer game that stars Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenstein, and has the player controlling the newly created Frankenstein monster....
     (1994) adventure game
    Adventure game

    An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story that is driven by exploration and puzzle instead of physical challenges such as combat....
  • Pretorius in the cartoon series The Mask: The Animated Series
    The Mask: The Animated Series

    The Mask: The Animated Series is a television animated series based on the comic book superhero, The Mask, but with most of its inspiration from the The Mask ....
     (1995)
  • Drake in The Pebble and the Penguin
    The Pebble and the Penguin

    The Pebble and the Penguin is a 1995 in film Animation musical film, based on the true life mating rituals of the Adelie Penguins in Antarctica, produced and directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman....
     (1995)
  • Dr. Mystico in Freakazoid (1995)
  • Zimbo in AAAHH!!! Real Monsters
    AAAHH!!! Real Monsters

    Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is an United States animated television series about adolescent monsters in training, developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon ....
     (1996)
  • Lazlo Gigahurtz in Bruno the Kid
    Bruno the Kid

    Bruno the Kid is an animated series produced in 1996 and starring Bruce Willis as the voice of an 11-year old boy who becomes a top spy for a secret espionage organization....
     (1996)
  • Lord Dragaunus in Disney's The Mighty Ducks TV Series (1996)
  • Trader Slick in the Jumanji
    Jumanji (TV series)

    Jumanji is an United States animated television series that was mostly based on the Jumanji . Jumanji ran for three seasons from 1996 in television-1999 in television....
     animated TV series (1996)
  • Prince Lotor and King Alfor in Voltron
    Voltron

    Voltron is a series of animated television series, the first of which was titled Voltron: Defender of the Universe. There has since been a second series, made in the 1990s using Computer generated imagery techniques....
    : The Third Dimension     (1996)
  • Forté in Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
    Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

    Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 film made by The Walt Disney Company. It is a Sequel#Midquel that takes place within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast ....
  • The frog in the Teen Angel
    Teen Angel (TV series)

    Teen Angel is an United States sitcom that was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss of The Simpsons fame. The show aired on American Broadcasting Company TGIF Friday night lineup from 1997 to 1998....
     episode, "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog" (1997)
  • Ben Ravencroft in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost
    Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost

    Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost is the second in a series of direct-to-video animated films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons....
     (1999)
  • The Skull in Bartok the Magnificent
    Bartok the Magnificent

    Bartok the Magnificent is a direct-to-video spin-off to the 1997 film Anastasia , which features Hank Azaria as the voice of Bartok. This film was released on VHS and DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on November 16, 1999, and was re-released in 2005 along with Anastasia in the Family Fun Edition DVD pack....
     (1999)
  • Dr. Neugog in Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
    Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot

    The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot is a comic book by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow and an eponymous animated television series....
  • Stratos, the God of Air in the video game Sacrifice
    Sacrifice (computer game)

    Sacrifice is a 3D real-time strategy game with strong role-playing game elements, developed by Shiny Entertainment, the creators of the Earthworm Jim franchise....
     (2000)
  • Slagar
    Slagar

    Slagar the Cruel is a villainous anthropomorphic fox in the book Mattimeo from the Redwall series by Brian Jacques.He has many hidden plans and reasons which he only reveals by his own free will....
     the Slaver in the TV miniseries Mattimeo
    Mattimeo

    Mattimeo is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1989. It is the third book in the Redwall series....
    : A Tale of Redwall
    Redwall

    Redwall is a series of fantasy novels by Brian Jacques. It is the title of the first book of the series, published in 1986, the name of the Abbey featured in the book, and the name of an Redwall based on three of the characters , which first aired in 1999....
    , based on the book by Brian Jacques
    Brian Jacques

    James Brian Jacques is an British literature, best known for his Redwall series of novels, as well as the Tribes of Redwall Badgers and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman series....
  • The Goose God in Courage the Cowardly Dog
    Courage the Cowardly Dog

    Courage the Cowardly Dog is an Academy Award-nominated American animated television series, created by John R. Dilworth, who directed each episode, about a dog named Courage and his owners Muriel Bagge, a kindly old Scottish woman, and Eustace Bagge, a grumpy old farmer, living together in a farmhouse in the middle of the fictional town o...
     (2001)
  • Spooky the cat in Teacher's Pet (animated series) (2001)
  • The Mouse King in Barbie in the Nutcracker
    Barbie in the Nutcracker

    Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 in film computer animation direct-to-video Barbie film directed by Owen Hurley. It is the first Barbie film since 1987's Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World....
     (2001)
  • Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys
    The Wild Thornberrys

    The Wild Thornberrys is an United States animated television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2004. It was rerun in the USA on Nickelodeon and occasionally Nicktoons Network until 2007....
     (1998-2004)
  • The Cat King in the English dubbed version of Neko no ongaeshi (aka The Cat Returns, (2002))
  • Professor Finbarr Calamitous in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
    The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

    The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius is an American animated television series, and spin-off of the Academy Award nominated computer animation Film, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius ....
     (2002)
  • Marion Finster, Lyle Finster's (John Cleese) brother in an episode of Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
  • Hazzaka in the first episode of K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments
    K10C: Kids' Ten Commandments

    Kids' Ten Commandments was a direct-to-video, five part series designed to teach the principles of the Ten Commandments to children in a fun and engaging way....
  • Professor Finbarr Calamitous in various Jimmy Neutron episodes (2004-2006)
  • General Von Talon in Valiant
    Valiant (film)

    Valiant is a 2005 in film Computer generated imagery film. Set in May of the year 1944, it tells the story of a group of war pigeons during World War II....
     (2005)
  • El Malefico in Mucha Lucha!:The Return of El Malefico.
  • Narrator of the Lemony Snicket
    Lemony Snicket

    Lemony Snicket is a pseudonym used by author Daniel Handler in his book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as a character in that series....
     audio books
  • Narrator of the Abhorsen Trilogy audio books
  • Ringmaster
    Ringmaster

    The term ringmaster may refer to numerous things:*Ringmaster , the leader of a circus* Ringmaster , the manager of a horse show ring*Ringmaster , a film starring Jerry Springer and Jaime Pressly...
     in     Loonatics Unleashed
    Loonatics Unleashed

    Loonatics Unleashed is an United States animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation that ran on September 17, 2005 to May 5, 2007 on The WB, and currently airs on The CW in the United States, Teletoon in Canada, Kids Central in Singapore, Cartoon Network's Boomerang in Australia, Cartoon Network in the UK, Southeast Asi...
     (2005)
  • Mr. Salamone in Eloise: The Animated Series
    Eloise: The Animated Series

    Eloise: The Animated Series or Me, Eloise is an animated television series, based on the Eloise series of children's books drawn and written by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight....
     (2006)
  • Prince in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

    Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a theatrical sequel to the 2004 live-action feature film Garfield . This film was film director by Tim Hill, screenwriter by Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, film producer by Davis Entertainment for 20th Century Fox, and was released in United States film theatre on June 16, 2006 ....
     (2006)
  • Yegor in Fly Me to the Moon
    Fly Me to the Moon (film)

    Fly Me to the Moon is a Belgian CGI animated 3D film feature film. It was released in digital 3D in Belgium on January 30, 2008 and in the USA and Canada on August 15, 2008....
     (2007)
  • Dr. Joseph Chadwick in Ben 10: Alien Force
    Ben 10: Alien Force

    Ben 10: Alien Force is an American animated television series created by "Man of Action" , and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It is a sequel to Ben 10, although it follows a loose continuity....
     (2008)
  • Stubbings in Phineas and Ferb
    Phineas and Ferb

    Phineas and Ferb is an Emmy-nominated Disney Channel Cartoon series that centers on two stepbrothers and their beyond-the-impossible adventures in their backyard during summer vacation....
  • Henchman and Robot Clown in Batman: The Animated Series
    Batman: The Animated Series

    Batman: The Animated Series is an United States, two time Emmy Award winning animated series adaptation of the comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero, Batman....
  • The librarian in Higglytown Heroes
    Higglytown Heroes

    Higglytown Heroes is a children's television Television program currently airing on the Playhouse Disney portion of the Disney Channel, or, on some cable networks, the Playhouse Disney channel....
  • The Goblin King in Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King
    Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King

    Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King is the 12th in the series of Scooby-Doo direct-to-video films, produced by Warner Bros. Animation . It was dedicated to Paulette Oates, whom helped resurrect Warner Bros....


Curry was cast as the Joker
Joker (comics)

The Joker is a Character , a comic book supervillain published by DC Comics and appearing as an enemy of Batman. Created by Jerry Robinson, Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the character first appeared in Batman #1 ....
 in Warner Brothers' Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series is an United States, two time Emmy Award winning animated series adaptation of the comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero, Batman....
, and even recorded several episodes worth of dialogue. Reports differ as to why he was replaced by Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill

Mark Richard Hamill is an United States actor and voice artist, best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the voice of Joker in the DC animated universe....
 in the role. One source says that the producers felt his interpretation was too dark and frightening and replaced him with Hamill. At the 1993 San Diego Comic-Con, Bruce Timm
Bruce Timm

Bruce Walter Timm is an United States character designer, animator and Television producer. He is also a writer and artist working in comics, and is known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe....
 told a panel audience that Curry could not maintain the Joker voice for long, and would violently cough between takes.

At the end of 2002, Curry served as the narrator in a parody of How The Grinch Stole Christmas for Nickelodeon.

Curry was also cast as the voice of SIR (Simulated Intelligence Robotics) at Walt Disney World's Alien Encounter
ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter is a former Tomorrowland "theater-in-the-round" attraction in the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Resort....
, which ran from 1995 to 2003.

Games


  • Gabriel Knight
    Gabriel Knight

    Gabriel Knight is a series of adventure games produced by Sierra On-Line in the 1990s. Three games were released in the series: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned....
     in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
    Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

    Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is a point-and-click game adventure game video game developer and video game publisher by Sierra On-Line, Inc....
     (1993) and Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
    Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned

    Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned is the third and final game in the Gabriel Knight series of adventure games by Sierra Online....
     (1999)
  • Doctor Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster
    Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster

    Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster is a graphic adventure computer game that stars Tim Curry as Dr. Frankenstein, and has the player controlling the newly created Frankenstein monster....
     (1995)
  • Count Nefarious in Toonstruck
    Toonstruck

    Toonstruck is a 1996 point-and-click adventure game in which, although all the imagery is drawn and scanned into the game, the protagonist Drew Blanc is an actual video-captured representation of the actor ....
     (1996)
  • Stratos in Sacrifice
    Sacrifice (computer game)

    Sacrifice is a 3D real-time strategy game with strong role-playing game elements, developed by Shiny Entertainment, the creators of the Earthworm Jim franchise....
     (2000)
  • Mastermind in Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights
  • Lemony Snicket in Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (video game)

    Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a game based on the Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events ....
     (2004)
  • Professor Finbarr Calamitous in Nicktoons Unite!
    Nicktoons Unite!

    Nicktoons Unite!, known as SpongeBob SquarePants and Friends: Unite! in Europe, is a 2005 video game featuring characters and levels from SpongeBob SquarePants, Danny Phantom, The Fairly OddParents, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius....
     (2005) and Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
    Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots

    Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots is the 2007 sequel to the 2005 Nicktoons Unite! and 2006 Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island and is the prequal to "Nicktoons: Globs of Doom"....
     (2007)
  • Premier Cherdenko in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3
    Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3

    Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is a 2008 in video gaming real-time strategy video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by Electronic Arts....
     (2008)


Musical career

Aside from his performances on various soundtrack records, Curry has had some success as a solo musical artist. In 1978, A&M Records
A&M Records

A&M Records is an United States record label owned by Universal Music Group which operates through the Interscope-Geffen-A&M division....
 released Curry's debut solo album, Read My Lips
Read My Lips (Tim Curry album)

Read My Lips is the debut solo album of Tim Curry....
. The album featured an eclectic range of songs (mostly covers
Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song.In its current use, it can sometimes have a pejorative meaning — implying that the original recording should be regarded as the definitive version, usually in the sense of an "authentic" rendition, and all...
) performed in diverse genre. Highlights of the album are a reggae
Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Music of Jamaica, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady....
 version of the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
 song "I Will", a rendition of "Wake Nicodemus" with full bagpipe backing, and an original bar-room ballad, "Alan".

The following year, Curry released his second and most successful album, Fearless. The LP
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
 was more rock-oriented than Read My Lips and mostly featured original songs rather than cover versions. The record included Curry's only US charting songs: "I Do the Rock" and "Paradise Garage".

Curry's third and final album, Simplicity, was released in 1981, again by A&M Records. This record, which did not sell as well as the previous offerings, combined both original songs and cover versions.

In 1989, A&M released The Best of Tim Curry on CD and cassette, featuring songs from his albums (including a live version of "Alan") and a previously unreleased song, a live cover version of Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate".

Curry toured America with his band through the late 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. He also performed in Roger Waters
Roger Waters

George Roger Waters is an England rock music musician. He is best known as the bass guitar player and one of the main songwriters in the English rock band Pink Floyd from 1964 to 1985....
' (of Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd are an English Rock music band who initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock and space rock music, and later, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music....
 fame) 1990 production of The Wall
The Wall

The Wall is a rock opera presented as a double album by the England progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late 1979. It was subsequently performed live, with elaborate theatrical effects, and made into Pink Floyd The Wall ....
 in Berlin, as the prosecutor. Curry's voice also appeared on The Clash's
The Clash

The Clash were an English Rock music band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk rock. Along with punk rock, they experimented with reggae, ska, Dub music, funk, Hip hop music and rockabilly....
 Sandinista!
Sandinista!

This article is about the pop album. For information about the political organisation see, Sandinista National Liberation Front.Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the punk rock band The Clash....
, on the track "Sound of Sinners".

Awards and nominations

  • 1981 Tony Award
    Tony Award

    The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live United States theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City....
     nomination, Best Actor in a Play (for playing the title role in "Amadeus
    Amadeus

    Amadeus is a stage play playwright in 1979 by Peter Shaffer, loosely based on the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri....
    ")
  • 1991 Daytime Emmy Award
    Daytime Emmy Award

    The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York, New York-based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles, California-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in United States daytime television programming....
     as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series (Captain James S. Hook
    Captain Hook

    File:DuMaurier.jpgCaptain James Hook is a fictional character and the antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations....
     in "Peter Pan and the Pirates
    Peter Pan and the Pirates

    Peter Pan and the Pirates is an animated television series based on J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that aired on Fox Broadcasting Company from September 1990 in television to December 1991 in television....
    ")
  • 1993 Tony Award nomination, Best Actor in a Musical (for playing Alan Swann in My Favorite Year
    My Favorite Year

    My Favorite Year is a 1982 in film comedy film which tells the story of a young comedy writer. It stars Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Lou Jacobi, Bill Macy, Lainie Kazan, Selma Diamond, Cameron Mitchell and Gloria Stuart....
    )
  • 1994 Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     nomination, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series (for a trio of roles in Tales from the Crypt
    Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

    Tales from the Crypt is a Horror film anthology series United States TV series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on the premium cable television Television channel Home Box Office....
    , in an episode entitled "Death of Some Salesmen")
  • 1996 Razzie Award nomination, Worst Supporting Actor (for playing Herkermer Homolka in the movie "Congo")
  • 1998 Annie Award
    Annie Award

    The Annie Awards are presented by the Los Angeles, California branch of the International Animated Film Association, ASIFA-Hollywood since 1972....
     nomination, Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer in an Animated Feature Production (for playing Forté in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
    Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

    Beauty and The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas is a 1997 film made by The Walt Disney Company. It is a Sequel#Midquel that takes place within the timeline of the original Beauty and the Beast ....
    )
  • 2005 Tony Award nomination, Best Actor in a Musical (for playing King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot)
  • 2007 Laurence Olivier Award nomination, Best Actor in a Musical (King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot)
  • 2007 Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice Award as Best Actor in a Musical (King Arthur in Monty Python's Spamalot)


External links

  • - Fan site