Tim Curry, ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Icon, Dead at 80

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https://variety.com/2026/film/obituaries-people-news/tim-curry-dead-rocky-horror-picture-show-1236843955/

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[flatbutt]

I've had so much fun at those midnight shows. RIP Tim

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Originally Posted by flatbutt

I've had so much fun at those midnight shows. RIP Tim

Me too!

[Jeff Higgins]

A local theater ran the Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight every Saturday for at least a decade. Probably more. A real staple of my high school and college years, I think we went almost once a month.

Tim Curry did complain that this movie "ruined" his career. Typecast. Made it very difficult for him to land other roles after he so thoroughly knocked it out of the park in this role. He was one damn fine actor in the roles he did subsequently secure. RIP.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

A local theater ran the Rocky Horror Picture Show at midnight every Saturday for at least a decade. Probably more. A real staple of my high school and college years, I think we went almost once a month.

Tim Curry did complain that this movie "ruined" his career. Typecast. Made it very difficult for him to land other roles after he so thoroughly knocked it out of the park in this role. He was one damn fine actor in the roles he did subsequently secure. RIP.

There was a local theater that did the same thing here. I was single back then and dating a lot of ladies looking for the right one. She had heard of Rocky Horor, but never seen it, and she like Dr. Demento, so I suggest we go. We were the only two in the theater not dressed in costumes. It was a crazy experience with everyone in the audience singing and dancing along with the movie. She enjoyed it, so I enjoyed her.

[KNS]

Sad passing. I thought he did well in The Hunt for Red October.

The Rialto in Pasadena, CA played Rocky Horror every night at midnight for years. Some friends and I went in there stoned just as the movie started - wearing no costume and not knowing the lines - and sat in the front row. We started getting harassed by the "cast" but they quickly left us alone as they saw we mostly non responsive.

[flatbutt]

His body of work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tim_Curry_performances

[varmint]

I do the rock.

[ramonesfreak]

My wife’s absolute favorite. Gets dressed up in costumes with her girlfriends and goes to the shows every year.

Never did like Rocky Horror my self. Snuck out to the midnight show back in the 80s as a teen and thought it was lame-0

RIP.

[herr_oberst]

Clinton Street Theatre in Portland has run RHPS uninterrupted every Saturday night since April 1978.
I reckon this will be a little bit of a windfall for the CST owners for the next few weeks.

I've lived in Portland since 1990; amazingly, I've never seen it at CST. I did see it a few times in Boise when it was just a midnight movie and not performance art for the audience....

[HobieMarty]

There was a theater in Fort Walton Beach that used to show Rocky Horror at midnight on Saturday nights. I never went but my sister and would be brother-in-law went several time. I've seen the movie and looked through the Rocky Horror Picture Show Book that my sister has. I just wasn't into it, but whatever.

To absent friends... Rest In Peace Tim Curry

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[sc_rufctr]

Sad news. Talented guy and he had a great life! Rest in peace.

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Incidentally "Queen Elizabeth I" became severally depressed near the end of her life because all of her closest friends had died.
She was a gifted leader with an immense legacy.

- Why couldn't she see the good in her life & find some joy in her final years?

There's a lesson in that for all of us.

[sc_rufctr]

[911 Rod]

I went a few times to the Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was a young and we were always hammered and had lots of fun.
Throwing stuff at the stage on que was a blast.
Had a dinner party not long ago and we all talked about going again. No one mentioned it again once we sobered up.
RIP

[911 Rod]

I went a few times to the Rocky Horror Picture Show when I was a young and we were always hammered and had lots of fun.
Throwing stuff at the stage on que was a blast.
Had a dinner party not long ago and we all talked about going again. No one mentioned it again once we sobered up.
RIP

[Steve Carlton]

I read he bought the movie Clue to life. Never saw it- will now.

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Pretty good.......