This week has been tough for news. One of our favorite actors, the amazing Tim Curry, has sadly passed away at the age of 80. Disney fans know him from Muppet Treasure Island and Home Alone 2 among many other things, but his career spanned so much larger than that. Sources say that the actor, who had been dealing with serious health issues for more than a decade, passed away late Tuesday night at his Los Angeles home.
Mr. Curry is most famous for his roles as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 musical comedy-horror film The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the ABC thriller miniseries It. As stated above, he is also well-known for portraying Mr. Hector in the 1992 20th Century Fox film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and for voicing Nigel Thornberry in the Nickelodeon animated series The Wild Thornberrys. He was Hexxus, the main villain of the 1992 Fox animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, Drake, the main antagonist of Don Bluth’s 1995 MGM animated film The Pebble and the Penguin, and Prince XII in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties. Such an extensive body of work.
Tim Curry had a long history with Disney, probably more than most realize. See the list below. Fans like us of the television show Psych will always remember as Nigel St. Nigel from the ‘American Duos’ episode as well. Our hearts truly go out to his family, friends and fellow fans. Tim Curry won’t soon be forgotten.
Live-Action Films
Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island (1996)Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (1993)Boyd Pinter in Passed Away (1992)Dr. Thornton Poole in Oscar (1991)
Animated Features and Series
Forte in Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)General Von Talon in Valiant (2005)Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious in Star Wars: The Clone WarsTaurus Bulba in Darkwing DuckThaddeus E. Klang in TaleSpinLord Dragaunus in Mighty Ducks: The Animated SeriesVoice roles in shows like Aladdin, Gargoyles, The Proud Family, and Phineas and Ferb.Theme Park AttractionsS.I.R. (Simulated Intelligence Robotics) for the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom
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