Tim Curry Dies: ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Actor Was 80
Tim Curry, who shot to stardom in his signature role as the corset-wearing “sweet transvestite from transexual Transylvania” Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult classic film The Rocky Horror Picture S
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Deadline reports that Tim Curry, the actor whose commanding presence as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 film The Rocky Horror Picture Show made him a permanent fixture in cult cinema, died Tuesday at his Los Angeles home at age 80. No cause of death has been disclosed. His performance in the corset and fishnets—campy, predatory, and oddly magnetic—turned a low-budget musical into a decades-long midnight-movie ritual and made Curry the face of a film that mainstream audiences never quite embraced but underground audiences never abandoned.
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