国际蒂姆·库里80岁逝世：中风之后，角色蜕变仍长存文字 2026年9月7日 UTC 21:22观看文字实录0:00The man who made Menace sing died quietly at home.0:02He was 80, and for more than five decades he turned villains into enduring cultural0:07icons watched by millions on stage and screen.0:10What ended his life after 14 years in a wheelchair and when any public farewell will0:14happen remain undisclosed.0:16Timothy James Curry died at home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles on August 25th, 2026.0:22He was born April 19th, 1946, in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England, and entered0:27professional work after the University of Birmingham, including West End Hare, in0:311968.0:32The breakthrough was deliberate transformation.0:34He originated Dr.0:35Frank N.0:36Furter at London's Royal Court Theater in summer 1973, took it to the Belasco0:40Theater on Broadway in 1975, and fixed the image on film that same year in the Rocky0:45Horror Picture Show, Moving Between Menace, Camp, and Musical Precision.0:49That range anchored what followed.0:51He was Lord of Darkness in Ridley Scott's Legend in 1985, requiring extensive0:56prosthetics, pennywise in the 1990 ABC miniseries It from Stephen King.1:00Wadsworth the Butler in Clue in 1985, mister Hector the Concierge in Home Alone 2,1:05Lost in New York in 1992 and Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island in 1996.1:10On stage he was King Arthur in Monty Python's Spam Alot in 2005.1:13He released albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s and earned a daytime Emmy for1:19Captain Hook in Peter Pan and the Pirates.1:21Stage recognition came without a win.1:23The verified record is three Tony nominations.1:26Best Actor in a Play for Amadeus in 1981 as Mozart, Best Actor in a Musical for My1:31Favorite Year in 1993, and Best Actor in a Musical for Spamalot in 2005 as King1:37Arthur.1:37A secondary record lists 1980 and 1986 for the first two, but the categories and1:42years above are the more trusted account.1:44The stroke rewrote the work.1:46The July 2012 event left him unable to speak clearly for weeks and in hospital for1:51about a month, protected by a helmet while the skull remained open.1:55He described it as having his skull smashed in, and later said he still had real1:59problems with his left leg.2:00Marcia Hurwitz shielded him from public view for a year to protect privacy.2:05Paralysis made singing and dancing impossible, which he called very limiting, and2:09forced a shift almost exclusively to voice acting.2:12He continued as Chancellor Palpatine and Darth Sidious in Star Wars, The Clone Wars2:16from 2012 to 2014, voiced anti-whispers in Over the Garden Wall in 2014, and2:21returned as the criminologist and narrator in Fox's 2016, The Rocky Horror Picture2:26Show, Let's Do the Time Warp Again, his last major on-screen role.2:29He stayed visible on his own terms.2:31The 2015 Actors Fund appearance was the first major public return in the chair.2:36In October 2020, he joined a Rocky Horror Table reading for the Wisconsin Democratic2:41Fundraiser.2:41He published the memoir Vagabond in 2025.2:44At the Academy Museum in September 2025 for the 50th anniversary, Posing with2:49Co-Stars, he said he thought the film's message, Don't Dream It, Be It, is very2:53important, and added, I still can't walk, which is why I'm in this silly chair, and2:57that's very limiting.2:58The confirmation came from longtime manager and friend Marcia Hurwitz.3:02In some reports via publicist Sean Katz, police and fire departments responded to a3:06medical event and death investigation for an 80-year-old man at the address on the3:10evening of August 25 between about 10.42 and 11.23 p.m.3:14No foul play was indicated.3:15No official cause has been disclosed and the coroner's office has not released a3:19report, with prior issues including the 2012 stroke and an abdominal aneurysm noted3:24without an established link.3:26No private funeral or formal memorial details have been publicly announced.3:29Tributes followed immediately from Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Patricia Quinn,3:34Richard O'Brien, and Nell Campbell, with Broadway observing a lobby memorial photo3:38display and a performance of I'm Going Home.3:40He never married and had no children and kept his romantic life private.3:44His father, Royal Navy chaplain James Curry, died in 1958 after a stroke and3:49pneumonia when Tim was about 12.3:51His mother, school secretary Maura Patricia Langmead Curry, died of cancer in 1999.3:57His older sister Judith, a concert pianist, died of a brain tumor in 2001 at age 60.4:02He is survived by a nephew and two nieces, his sisters' children, to whom he4:07remained close and with no funeral announced.4:09The record stands as a peaceful death at home at 80, closing work from the late4:131960s into the 2020s that continued through voice, writing, and limited appearances4:18from a wheelchair after a near-fatal injury.阅读文章事件时间线HeyDex短视频 ↗
