Happy Birthday Tim Curry!!!
Today, April 19th, marks the 71st birthday of the one, the only, TIM CURRY!
The Rocky Horror fandom knows him best as the deliciously demented Dr. Frank-n-Furter, of course…
But Mr. Curry’s body of work goes far beyond that. Over nearly five decades(!) of acting, he has portrayed the Bard of Avon, Will Shakespeare…
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the original Broadway run of Amadeus…
Miss Hannigan’s dashing but dastardly brother Rooster in Annie…
The Pirate King in the 1982 West End production of The Pirates of Penzance…
The demonic Darkness of Legend…
The butler, Wadsworth, from that board-game-come-to-life Clue…
The Grand Wizard in the film-length meme that is The Worst Witch (and yes, Tim, we all want to see your *ahem* “tambourine”)…
Steven King’s carnivorous clown Pennywise, causing generations of horror fans to develop coulrophobia (Beep Beep, Richie!)…
Ferngully’s Hexxus, whose slimy, seductive song “Toxic Love” gave 90′s kids of all genders very confusing feelings for an animated smog-monster…
The smarmy, sycophantic Concierge in Home Alone 2…
The conniving Cardinal Richelieu, the Three Musketeers’ powerful foe…
The entire creepy-ass Brackett family in the Tales from the Crypt episode “Death of Some Salesmen”…
Ariel’s oddly muscular antagonist, the Evil Manta, from The Little Mermaid TV series…
The Pebble and the Penguin’s devious Drake (once again, why on earth is a penguin that buff?)…
The infamous Long John Silver, complete with Muppet crew (and a smouldering past romance with Miss Piggy)…
King Chicken in the strange, crass adult cartoon Duckman…
The patriarch of that beloved creepy, kooky family, Gomez Addams…
The bumbling wildlife expert (and father of 1,000 smashing memes) Nigel Thornberry…
Ben Ravencroft, a horror writer with a mysterious past in Scooby-Doo and the Witch’s Ghost…
The greedy Ebenezer Scrooge in Madison Square Garden’s 2001 Christmas Carol (as well as a number of other Christmas Carol projects, including voicing an animated Scrooge in 1997, recording an audiobook, and even participating in a Sesame Street version!)…
King Arthur in the original run of Monty Python’s Broadway blockbuster Spamalot…
Prince, Garfield’s royal doppelgänger…
Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars…
The ominous Auntie Whispers in Over the Garden Wall…
…and did the Time Warp again in 2016 as the Criminologist in FOX’s totally unnecessary remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And that’s just a tiny selection of roles from his huge body of work! (I should know: I spent literal hours combing his résumé for this post.) Mr. Curry is a true jack-of-all-trades talent—from stage and screen, to audiobooks and voice work for animated features and video games; he even released several albums as a solo musician!
For almost half a century, Timothy James Curry has inspired the weirdos, the queer kids, the theater geeks, and the freaks of the world. His life shows them—shows us—that being ourselves will pay off in the long run, no matter how much we are told that we have to “learn to fit in” and “be normal, for god’s sake.”
Mr. Curry, you are a motherfucking hero, and for that, we honour you. Here’s hoping you are healthy and happy, today and for many birthdays yet to come.
So everyone join me in a rousing chorus of a song even the virgins will know!
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