Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke \u2013 and 50 years of stardom<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Farewell, Dr Frank N Furter: why Tim Curry\u2019s Rocky Horror Show will go on<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports say<\/a> Curry died at his home in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Ironically, Curry\u2019s best-known roles all required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in all of them. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror\u2019s deranged scientist, saw him daubed in garish makeup and wearing stockings and suspenders, for the stage show (which debuted in 1973) and the film adaptation (released in 1975). In the Ridley Scott-directed fantasy Legend (1985), he was equipped with giant horns and scarlet skin as the Lord of Darkness. And in 1990, Curry was transformed with full-face clown pancake to play Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, based on the Stephen King novel.<\/p>\n
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