Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946 in Grappenhall, a district of Warrington, England) is a British actor, vocalist and composer perhaps best known for his role when mad scientist Dr. Frank North. Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He too experienced an sooner career as a rock musician. He exposed Drama & English at Birmingham and then at Cambridge. His listings of roles is pleasantly extensive, within each TV & pic, survive-action & voice-acting for even alive features, & these are guiding light that he most universally plays the villain of of these sort or a second. He presently lives within Los Angeles.

Early Life
Tim Curry's father James was the Methodist chaplain for the British Navy, though Tim himself was always the "cheerful agnostic" (his have words), & remains then to this day. Upon James' dying around 1958, Tim resettled to South London, in which he attended the boarding school founded by the father of Methodism John Wesley. Despite these roots, a school remained "quite liberal," & Tim observed joy non in the religious aspect especially however like in the immense total of anthem available. It wwhen on text that his want for singing come out as he developed into the gifted boy soprano. After his voice broke, he was fortunate to exist as under the tutelage of the music teacher world health organization encouraged him to have a matured singing voice.

After he was Xix, he began his studies at a University of Birmingham, completing a joint honours degree around English & Drama prior to moving in to survey at a University of Cambridge.

He cites Billie Holiday as his major musical influence, saying that he "listened to nothing but her records for 2 years" in the period of the period of adolescent depressiin when he contemplated on "which gloomy Sunday afternoon I was going to throw myself under a car".

Musical Career

Around 1978, A&M Records released Tim Curry's debut solo album. Entitled "Read My Lips", a album featured an eclectic range of songs (mostly covers) performed within diverse genre. Highlights of the album come the reggae version of the Beatles song "I Will", the rendition of "Wake Nicodemus" using to the full pipe backing, & an original bar-saloon ballad, "Alan".

A charted month, Curry's 2nd & virtually all succesful album was freed. Titled "Fearless," a LP was supplementary rock-oriented than Review Our Lips & mostly featured original songs like than cover. A record involved Tim Curry's just United states charting songs: "I Do the Rock" & "Paradise Garage".

Curry's third & final album, "Simplicity", was freed around 1981, again by The&M Records. This record did does'nt sell besides when the former offerings, due within section to a less appealling, other drippy healthy. This record combined two original songs & cover, & is unremarkably held to exist as a weakest of the ternary albums.

Within 1989, The&M released "The Best of Tim Curry" on CD and cassette, featuring songs from his albums (including a live version of "Alan") and a previously-unreleased song, a live cover version of "Simple Twist of Fate".

Curry toured United states of america by using his b& through a late 1970s and the foremost half of the Eighties.

Acting Career
Rocky Horror

Curry's number one good-whale role wwhen as a share of the original London cast of the musical Hair in 1968. On this button he 1st met Richard O'Brien, who went on to create his next full-time and perhaps still most famous role, that of Frank N. Furter in the Rocky Horror Show.

Originally Curry played a character by owning a German accent & envisioned him just around a whiten labcoat by using peroxide blond hair, however the character evolved (mainly for comedy reasons) into the Queen's English-speaking, sly, drag-wearing mad scientist incarnation that carried over to the movie version and made Curry both a star and a cult figure. He continued to play a character around London & Just released York until 1978.

For numerous years, Curry was reluctant to talk all about Rocky Horror, feeling that it was the trend that got never to return as well far & got detracted attention out of his afterwards roles. Still, within recent years he has been very much supplementary open just about discussing a indicate & today recognises it as a "rite of passage" for numerous immature population.

Theatre
Within 1979, Curry took the the portion of the Pirate King inside a London stage version of The Pirates of Penzance opposite George Cole. A role is one of his favourites potentially currently.

Within 1981, he formed part of the original cast in the Broadway indicate Amadeus, playing a title character, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was nominated for his number 1 Tony Award (Best Supporting Actor within the Play) for this role, however misused bent his co-star Sir Ian McKellen.

1993 saw him play Alan Swann in the Broadway musical My Favourite Year, earning him his second Tony Award nomination for Better Actor inside the Musical comedy.

Around late 2004, he began to play King Arthur in ''Monty Python's Spamalot'' in Chicago, Illinois. A indicate transferred with success to Broadway in February 2005. His the share inside the indicate had him his third & virtually all recent Tony Award nomination, over again for Better Actor in a Musical comedy.

Movies and television
Curry's television flick credits come hanker & varied. Amongst his virtually all notable roles come:

Dr Frank North. Furter The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Jerome K. Jerome in the BBC's TV movie "Three Men in a Boat"(1975) Has-been rock star Stevie Streeter around ''Rock Follies of '77 (1977) The disc jockey Johnny LaGuardia within Days Square'' (1980) One-instance guest carrier in Saturday Night Live (1981) Larry Gormley around BBC's TV comedy Blue Money (1982) Rooster in the musical Annie (1982) Darkness in the film Legend (1985) Wadsworth a Butler in the film Clue (1985) The Grand Wizard in "The Worst Witch" (1986) Dr Thornton Poole a elocutionist in the film Oscar (1991) Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the miniseries It (based on a Stephen King novel) (1991) The arch hotel concierge Mr Hector in the film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red October (based on a Tom Clancy novel) (1992) Cardinal Richelieu in Disney's "The Three Musketeers" (1993) Gaal inside Earth 2 (1994)) Herkermer Homolka around Congo (1995), the role he would probably like forget due to a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. "Poet Man" around Lexx (1997) in the episode "Supernova" Roger Corwwithin in Charlie's Angels (2000) Thurman Rice inside Kinsey (2004) Dale "The Whale" Biterbeck around Monk, a 2nd individual to choose the role, when Adam Arkin. (2004)

Voice acting

From either a early Nineties ahead, Curry has been known non even as an accomplished actor of stage & screen however as well as a extremely-acclaimed voice artist. Notable roles include:

Captain James T. Hook in Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates TV series (1990) Hexxus around FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992) Gabriel_Knight in the computer games Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993) and Gabriel Knight III: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damnably (1999) Maelstrom within Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego? (1994) George Herbert Walker "King" Chicken in Duckman (1994-1997) Dr Sevarius within "Gargoyles" (1994) Pretorius in the cartoon series The Mask (1995) Count Villainous around 1995 video game "Toonstruck" (1995) Trader Slick in the Jumanji cartoon series (1996) Forté around Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, earning him an Annie Award nomination. Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberries TV series and subsequent moving picture (1998) Stratos a air god in the streaming game "Sacrifice" (2000) The Mouse King around Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001) The Cat King in the English dubbed version of Neko no ongaeshi (2002) General Von Talon within "Valiant" (2005) Narrator of the Lemony Snicket audio books Dr. Doomsday in the Todays 4 1994-1995 Alive Series

Awards and nominations
1981 Tony Award nomination, Best Actor around a Play (for swimming the name part within "Amadeus") 1993 Tony Award nomination, Better Actor withwithin the Musical theater (for swimming Alan Swann in "My Favorite Year") 1994 Emmy Award nomination, Outstanding Guest Actor inside the Dramthe Series (for a trio of roles within Tales from the Crypt, in an episode entitled "Death of Some Salesmen") 1996 Razzie Award nomination, Worst Supporting Actor (for playing Herkermer Homolka in the flick "Congo") 1998 Annie Award nomination, Outstanding Human Achievement for Voice Acting by the Male Performing artist witharound an Animated Feature Production (for swimming Forté in "Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas") 2005 Tony Award nomination, Better Actor inside the Musical comedy (for swimming King Arthur around "Monty Python's Spamalot")