Timothy Curry

There is a category of actors known to a wide audience, but few of the audience are able to remember the names of films in which this actor or actress was seen. Tim Curry falls into this category. Born English actor and singer on April 19, 1946. It happened in the city of Warrington, located in the northern part of Cheshire (UK).

Timothy James Curry was born (as his full name sounds) in the family of the chaplain of the World Methodist Council James Curry and his wife Patricia. Tim became the second child in the family - before that, the couple had already had a daughter, Judy. In elementary and high school, the boy was not much different from his peers, however, moving into high school, Tim changed - he was conquered by the works of William Shakespeare.

Love for the work of the English poet and playwright led Currie first to Cambridge University, then to Birmingham, and then to the Royal Shakespeare Company (a member of which was also the future three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis). After receiving honors degrees in English and Drama, Tim became a full-fledged member of the troupe's performances.

Although Curry started out as a theater actor, he became famous for his work in film and television. His filmography includes about two hundred works. Tim first appeared on the screens during the broadcast of theatrical performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company on television, as part of the programs "Play of the Day" and "Theater in a Chair." A full-fledged debut took place in 1968, in Brian Hill's tape "The Slipping Fish" ("The Fish Swims to the Side") - Curry played the role of a waiter on a train.

The first role that made Tim famous, the actor got only seven years later, starring in the movie "The Rocky Horror Show" directed by Jim Sharmen ("Shirley Jackson vs. Aliens", "Summer Secrets", "Shock Therapy"). In this film, Curry played the extraordinary doctor Frank-n-Furter, who sheltered a couple of newlyweds in his mansion. It is known that at the initial stages of work on the project, this role was supposed to be played by The Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger.

In the same 1975, a screen version of the work of the famous English humorist Jerome K. Jerome "Three in a boat, not counting a dog" was released. Steven Frears (Queen, Philomena, Dangerous Liaisons) was at the helm of the project, and Tim Curry played the role of the author in the film.

Three years later, the actor starred with Jerzy Skolimowski ("Success is the Best Vengeance", "Necessary Murder", "The Adventures of Gerard") in the film "Howl", which tells the story of a man who learned to kill by screaming from the Australian aborigines. Suzanne Yorke, John Hurt and Alan Bates joined Curry in this film.

In 1980, Tim appeared in Times Square by Allan Moyle (Turn Up the Volume, Body Swap, Not Another Word). Times Square talked about the problems in the lives of teenagers in the eighties of the twentieth century.

In 1982, another - not the first and far from the last - film adaptation of Charles Dickens's "The Adventures of Oliver Twist", directed by Clive Donner, was released ("Million Pound Bank Note", "Christmas Carol", "What's New, Kitten?" ). Three years later, Curry, along with Tom Cruise and Mia Sarah, starred in Ridley Scott ("Alien", "Gladiator", "The Martian") in the tape "Legend" - Tim got the role of the Devil.

In the same 1985, the film "Clue" was released, also known in the domestic box office under the name "Clue". The plot of the picture is based on the eponymous logic board game in the genre of a detective (the predecessor of "Mafia"), invented by Anthony Prett in the mid-fifties of the last century. Clue was directed by Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinnie, Nine Yards, Three Men and a Little Lady), and Tim Curry played one of the suspects.

In 1988, Curry starred in the comedy Pass the Cartridges by David Beard (Real Guy Is a Reveler, My New Car, Sex and Violence), starring Bill Paxton and Linda Kozlowski.

Two years later, along with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn and Sam Neal, Tim played in The Hunt for Red October directed by John McTiernan (Predator, Die Hard, The Thomas Crown Affair).

However, the hit film of 1990 with the participation of Curry was another tape - "It". Tommy Lee Wallace's television project (Halloween 3, Fear Night 2, The Twilight Zone) was a screen version of Stephen King's work of the same name. Tim Curry got the role of universal evil, embodied in the form of the dancing clown Pennywise. Children of those years remembered the actor's smile for the rest of their lives.

Fun fact: when, 20 years later, they started talking about a new film adaptation of It, the producers again offered Tim the role of the main antagonist, but the actor refused. The next candidate was Will Poulter, but he also did not get the chance to play the role of Pennywise in this film, because the producers thought that Will was "not tall" for this character (this is interesting, considering that Curry is 1.75 m tall, and Poulter is 1.88) m. Ultimately, the role of Pennywise was played by Bill Skarsgard.

After the production of Tommy Lee Wallace, Curry took up voice acting for cartoon characters. In 1990, Tim was featured in Peter Pan and the Pirates, Miracles on the Curves, Cartoon Adventures and Captain Planet's Rescue Team. In 1991, the actor's voice could be heard in the cartoons "Pirates of Dark Water", "Dinosaurs" and "Black Cloak". Next year - in "Batman" and "The Little Mermaid".

Also in 1992, Curry took part in the second part of the film "Home Alone" by Chris Columbus, playing the role of concierge.

In 1993, Tim starred in a parody of the Lethal Weapon franchise, Loaded Weapon, directed by Gene Quintano (Why Me ?, Crazy Honeymoon, A Dollar for the Dead). Also this year, Curry voiced the cartoon characters Mighty Max and Sonic: The Energy Stone.

A year later, the film adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" by Alexander Dumas the father, directed by Stephen Herek, was released ("Critters", "101 Dalmatians". "Don't tell your mother that the nanny is dead"). In this tape, Tim played Cardinal Richelieu. Also in 1994, Curry again starred in the same film with Alec Baldwin, it was Russell Mulcay's Shadow (Highlander, Against the Current, On the Last Bank).

This year was not without the voice acting of cartoons - work on "Aladdin", "Gargoyles" and "Hey Arnold!". Over the next two years, Tim Curry voiced the characters for The Mask, Freekazoid, Casper the Good Ghost, Jumanji and Future Batman.

In 1998, the actor returned to the cinema to play the role of Gomez - the head of the Addams family in the film "The Addams Family Reunion" by Dave Payne ("Alien from the Abyss", "Killing a Girl from the Show", "Reeker").

In 2001, Curry starred in the parody film Scary Movie 2 by Keenen Ivory Wayans (Scary Movie, White Chicks, Naughty Man) and in the next part of the movie Tales from the Crypt (not to be confused with the series of the same name, although Curry also starred in it), with the subtitle "Ritual".

In 2004, he starred opposite Liam Neeson, Timothy Hutton and Peter Skarsgard in "Dr. Kinsey" with Bill Condon. After that - again the period of work on dubbing the characters of the cartoon "Ben 10", "Star Wars", "Justice League" and "Transformers".

In 2013, Tim Curry co-starred with Lance Henriksen in Balazh Hatwani's The Red Clown. As in It, Curry played the antagonist clown who is "not what it seems."

Tim is single. Never married. On the Internet, you cannot even find a photo in which Curry would be with any girl. There is an opinion that he is gay, but there is no confirmation or refutation of this.

Other details of the actor's biography are also unknown - as a true Englishman, Curry does not advertise his personal life.

In the spring of 2013, Tim suffered a stroke. Since then, he has only moved in a wheelchair.

Michael J. Berwick's The Long Way Home, in which Curry will play one of the leading roles, is due out in late 2017.

Also, the actor can be seen in the series "The Rocky Horror Show", which is a remake of the tape of the same name.

In addition, Curry is writing songs again, in his plans - to release a fourth album (the first three were released in 1978, 1979 and 1981).

1968 - "The Escaping Fish" 1975 - "The Rocky Horror Show" 1975 - "Three Men in a Boat, Not including a Dog" 1978 - "Howl" 1982 - "Oliver Twist" 1985 - "Legend" 1990 - The Hunt for Red October 1990 - It 1992 - Home Alone 1994 - The Three Musketeers 1998 - The Addams Family Reunion 2001 - Scary Movie 2 2004 - Dr. Kinsey "2013 -" Red Clown "

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