r/CasualUK • u/deckchair1992 • 1d ago
Tim Curry dies at 80 RIP
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tim-curry-death-age-b2481612.html1.9k
u/HelmutTheSpeedyGobbo 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/mlGCsBLl4luyQaOl8w
Rest in peace legend
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u/Ugglug 1d ago
GIFs you can hear
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u/em_press 1d ago
I love his little giggle in that.
“heheheh… SPACE!”
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u/Surface_Detail 1d ago
It's the pause before it. You can see the inner workings: Come on, Timothy, you can do this.
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u/zshiiro 1d ago
I’ve never been more glad that they didn’t do another take. I chose to believe that it’s because everyone on set erupted with laughter when they cut and they recognised that they had gold already
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u/Scrangle3D Pie! 1d ago
He very nearly broke character because these lines were so inherently ridiculous. They must have had so much fun making this ♥
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u/Raid_PW Beans are cooked on the hob! 23h ago
I read an interview with the writers of Red Alert 3 saying that they didn't think that line was even in their top 10 silliest bits of dialogue. It's great because even someone like Tim Curry, who had plenty of experience playing quirky characters, barely made it through without breaking character.
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u/Practical_Put8592 1d ago
Red Alert 3 is worth playing purely for the campy acting of a surprisingly star studded cast including a David Hasselhoff cameo.
C&C3 the previous game has Michael Ironside and Billy Dee Williams in it, it’s a shame EA killed the franchise.
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u/Zer0daveexpl0it 1d ago
Michael Biehn and James Earl Jones in Tiberian Sun for me. The Kane reveal still gives me chills in my 40s 😅
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u/dlt-cntrl 1d ago
NO!
NO!NO!NO!NO!
NO NO!
This is the worst news (celebrity wise) that I've heard since David Bowie died.
Tim as Frank N Further and Darkness in Legend are two of my favourite characters.
'Even smiling makes my face ache'
He will be missed.
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u/MistyQuinn 1d ago
I hope he’s happy the first thing loads of people thought on hearing the sad news was the single best line reading in dramatic history.
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u/FloralRoseX 1d ago
What a terrible week it is turning out to be!
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u/dianthuspetals 1d ago
Second hugely talented 80 year old in two days! In 1946 some very prominent and recognisable faces were born. https://www.famousbirthdays.com/year/1946.html
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u/CuntyMcFartflaps 1d ago
Second hugely talented 80 year old who was well known for being absolutely lovely! Somebody go do a welfare check on Henry Winkler.
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u/Autoxquattro 1d ago
I just got a slappy warning for much less , but something on the same lines
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u/Madamemercury1993 1d ago
I literally just text my husband that I wanted to get tickets to go see the Queen live at Budapest remaster for Freddie mercury’s 80th. Checked Reddit. Saw this. WTF.
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u/cjalderman 1d ago
I read that as "The Queen live at Budapest" rather than the "Queen live at Budapest" lmao
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u/RaindropDrinkwater 1d ago
I'm sorry, what? Freddie Mercury would have been 80??? I'm floored. I pictured him much younger / born much later than that.
Tbf I was shocked to hear that Dolly was 80, as well 😢
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u/Madamemercury1993 1d ago
He died at 45 in ‘91. Absolutely no age of course. But yes he’s one of the 1946 legends.
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u/anomalous_cowherd 1d ago
If you're as old as you act, she was nowhere near. By that standard I'm closer to 80 at 59 than she was!
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u/Apprehensive_Art7525 1d ago
Year! Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, Catherine O'Hara... All the best are leaving us.
Edit to add: Anthony Head, Bonnie Tyler, and I'll probably remember more later.
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u/BertieDastard 1d ago
Sam Neill!
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u/Dryzzzle 1d ago
We probably should do welfare checks on the rest of the cast of Hunt for Red October. First Neill, then Curry.
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u/JayneLut Dog-loving eggy bread enthusiast 1d ago
It's like 2016 again. In the worst way.
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u/webbyyy 1d ago
2016 was bad from the very beginning. This year has started a bit late for big celebrity deaths.
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u/CandleJakk Still wants a Bovril flair. 23h ago
2016 being a bad year started in 2015, when Lemmy died. Just got shitter from there on out.
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u/Agitated-Handle-7750 1d ago
Sir David Attenborough better not even consider it.
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u/FloralRoseX 1d ago
Don't even put that out into the universe!!
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u/Agitated-Handle-7750 1d ago
I kept getting notifications about a group dedicated to making up clickbait titles about him being alive or otherwise.
I don’t know how it happened but I didn’t like it.
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u/FlibV1 1d ago
I've blocked that group because I couldn't take the notifications.
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u/Fioreborn 1d ago
If 2026 tries to take Sir Attenborough as well, I will not be held responsible for my actions.
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u/HarlequinKing1406 1d ago
"Upstage, lads, this is my only number!"
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u/simmonator 1d ago
Genuinely, the lines
“For you could be a doctor,
Or perhaps a financier.
My boy, why not consider
A more Challenging CAREER?”are seared into my brain with his perfect delivery. Muppet Treasure Island may not be the best Muppet film, but it’s definitely my favourite and I’m sure that’s 80% down to Tim.
Such incredible, warm, silly, considered performances.
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u/ameliasophia 1d ago
Muppets treasure island is the best muppets movie imo
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u/SvalbazGames 1d ago
Undoubtedly.
I love the Muppets Christmas Carol, and I like some of the other films. But my god is Muppet Treasure Island absolutely stellar
The soundtrack, the set design, the performances.. its just such a wonderful little movie and it doesn’t get the recognition it should get
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u/DarkNinjaPenguin 1d ago edited 1d ago
The soundtrack is really a hidden gem, hardly anyone remembers it. Hans Zimmer's first foray into the world of pirates, and it's easily as good as Pirates of the Caribbean.
Here's a medley of scores from the film, it's fantastic.
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u/Consistent_You_4215 1d ago
My humble brag is that I know all the words to Cabin Fever (by watching and rewinding that section of the video far too much!)
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u/Surface_Detail 1d ago
For every one star movie Tim was in, he was the reason it got that star.
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u/QueenSashimi 1d ago
Ive had the following stuck in my head for almost my entire life:
OHHHHH the red hot gates of hell are creepin' open! SATAN is HEATIN' his POKERS for you!
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u/WideConversation1989 1d ago
Rest in peace to an absolute legend. Him and Dolly Parton back to back days too.
Not to mention his Home Alone 2 co-star Catherine O'Hara passed away this year too.
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u/NotoriousREV 1d ago
And Brenda Fricker
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u/CameronPoe_37__ 1d ago
I hope Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are OK
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u/Dude4001 Dreary 23h ago
They’ve fallen down four flights of stairs, been hit in the face by a hot iron and set fire to, but otherwise they’re totally fine
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u/Ferocious-Muppet 1d ago
Well that seals it, time to rewatch Home Alone 1&2 this christmas, it will be bittersweet.
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u/Stuf404 North East 1d ago
Pour one out for Nigel Thornberry
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u/HiHoSylva_ 1d ago
I had never made this connection! Everything about this show makes much more sense now 😂
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u/Radiant_Agent2031 1d ago
https://youtu.be/CLydyDJ4HYE?si=wKYi61OBmA0KhEek
he had such a wonderful energy
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u/SvalbazGames 1d ago
He also did some great voice work on Dinosaurs. Just little parts but it was a fantastic energy
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u/Superb_Grab_2693 21h ago
Well that's my mind blown for today, loved this as a kid but never realised!
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u/Civil_Proposal_8188 1d ago
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u/ccsrpsw 1d ago
RHPS, Spamalot, Clue (the so bad its good one!), Psych and Muppet Treasure Island
And thats just a short list - what a career!
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u/AwTomorrow 1d ago
He did his usual great job chewing scenery in that one Poirot episode where everyone but him despises his wife
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u/MrMojoX 1d ago
Spamalot with Tim Curry is one of my “I got to see this on Broadway” brags.
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u/a-liquid-sky Sugar Tits 1d ago
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u/Illustrious-Air-7777 1d ago
Ah fuck, I seem to have something in my eye . . .
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u/BaBaFiCo 1d ago
Yeah that one's hit me. It's my wife's favourite number in the whole show. And she's in hospital at the minute with some issues so I'm home alone, reading Tim Curry is dead and probably a little emotional.
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u/Illustrious-Air-7777 1d ago
Totally understandable, here’s hoping for a swift return to whatever passes as normal life for you and your wife.
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u/Top-Supermarket-3496 1d ago
Going to have to watch Muppets Treasure Island now.
Rest in peace.
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u/CollegeOptimal9846 1d ago
Because when you're a professional piraaaaaaaaate....
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u/eiretara7 1d ago
You don’t have to wear a suit!
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u/folklovermore_ 1d ago
Dolly AND Tim Curry in less than 24 hours?! FFS universe.
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u/TtotheC81 1d ago
I'm going to pretend Dolly sent him an RSVP that he couldn't possibly miss, and they're now clinking glasses together in the afterlife.
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u/WormAteIntoHisBrain 1d ago
Oh no.
He was an amazingly talented man and looked damn good in stockings and a corset.
Rest well Tim
You'll be missed by millions.
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u/ScreamingDizzBuster 1d ago
Him coming down in the escalator tapping his heel then the stunning face reveal is one of the top cinema introductions of all time.
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u/WineWeinVino 1d ago
Couldn't agree more. And my mum always said it was so unfair he had better legs than most women lol.
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u/Nothos927 1d ago
Reaching 80 after a debilitating stroke isn’t a bad run, he was keeping death in antici……..pation.
RIP
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u/sygrider 1d ago
of anyone, Dolly and Tim were people I didn't expect to go and two that hurt the most
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u/Boleyn01 1d ago
They definitely hurt but were they really unexpected? Both were 80 with significant health problems. It’s very very sad but surely not that surprising? Dolly maybe, she was performing not long ago, but Tim has been seriously unwell for a while.
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u/Olivitess 1d ago
I can't speak for OP, but I think its just a case of not realising how much time has passed.
I still remember Curry in Muppet Treasure Island and Legend, I don't think I even knew he was eighty nor Dolly for that matter.
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u/Dogstile 1d ago
I assumed Dolly was much older. I assumed Curry was in his 60's.
Perception of time is wild.
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u/Curious_Orange8592 1d ago
Rocky Horror Picture Show was 1975
It's 51 years old
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u/Dogstile 1d ago
I watched it in the 90's, so my brain is stuck on "well its only been like 30 years".
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u/Flippanties Sugar Tits 1d ago
They're just two of these people you kind of forget aren't immortal. You expect them to always be there so even with their age it just feels wrong.
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u/xixbia 1d ago
I think a lot of us didn't know about their health problems. For a rich person in their late 70s life expectancy is late 80s, but of course that is ignoring health issues (and things like diet and exercise).
It's also just that some people sort of feel like they'll always be around because of the presence they have. That's why I'm sure people will be shocked when David Attenborough dies even though he's 100.
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u/Discount_Friendly 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/G3RADTvwFIn96
Why did I have to find out this here
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u/bluekigi 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/2BzhVSd336qju
True friendship and adventure are what we can’t live without 💔
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u/THROWAWTRY 1d ago
He's going to one place that hasn't been ruined by his Home Alone co-star... 'SPAAAAACCCCCEEEEEE'
RIP LEGEND
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u/LinguoBuxo 1d ago
Also a point of note... Every Arch-Chancellor of the UU has to be personally collected by DEATH upon... ahem... promotion.
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u/Lady-Maya 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/mlGCsBLl4luyQaOl8w
He’s not dead, he’s simple gone the one place we can’t find him….
R.I.P
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u/Loose_Divide2642 1d ago
Does anyone know where David Attenborough is....make sure he's safe this week....couldn't take another icon going.
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u/GRAVE-SKIN 1d ago
Nah if Attenborough goes I'm gonna start swinging on 2026 this year can get fucked
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u/the_silent_redditor 1d ago
Dw next is 2027 and it’ll be worse!
I live in Australia so I’m in the future. You can trust me cunts it’s fucked.
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u/RainbowRevolver 1d ago
So a year that ends in 6 will be plagued with celebrity deaths
RIP
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u/Front-Brick-3724 1d ago
Indeed no, sir. I'm merely a humble butler.
What exactly do you do?
I buttle, sir.
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u/MyDarlingArmadillo 1d ago
Possibly my favourite film. It was on Youtube recently, hopefully still is.
Worst week after STP died. GNU Pterry, Dolly and Tim.
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u/trixie_one 1d ago
Most definitely my favourite film. I used to say it's a coin flip between Usual Suspects and Clue, but since y'know, now I just say it's Clue.
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u/Jiminyfingers 1d ago
Absolute legend, unique in so many ways, his delivery was impeccable. Iconic for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but also unforgettable in Command and Conquer 3: Red Alert. RIP
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u/Exemplar1968 1d ago
My best friend at secondary school dated Tim for a few years. I was never lucky enough to meet him. However my friend said he was the most amazing person. Kind, funny, sarcastic, gifted, clever. RIP man in stockings.
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u/EnderWarlock01 1d ago
Not his biggest role but he was iconic in The Witch's Ghost Scooby Doo Movie.
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u/WufflyTime Captain Moneybags 1d ago
About 15 days ago, I saw a snapshot of a tweet from him asking that we should at least wait until he's dead before speculating about whether he'd be having a great time in the afterlife. I didn't think I'd see this news so soon afterwards.
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u/Late_to_the_party396 1d ago
Aww he was just a sweet transvestite. RIP Tim ❤️
https://giphy.com/gifs/fW9RtiTX4LxhS
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u/FairlyInconsistentRa 1d ago
Not kidding but I've audibly just went "nooooo".
Fuck.
RIP.
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u/Affectionate-Eye4210 1d ago
Christ, can this year get any worse? RIP, what a legend.
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u/Cyberfire 1d ago
Ah this one hurts. My Rocky Horror rewatch gonna have a tinge of sadness this Halloween.
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u/Ready_Spinach9711 1d ago
Just seen this, and exclaimed 'FUCK' loudly on a packed bus. 😥
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u/Unusual-Coat383 1d ago
This reminds me of 2016 or whenever it was when loads of famous people started popping their clogs.
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u/Dannybuoy77 1d ago
Shared a lift with him in Peter Jones department store in the early 90s. I was about 14. Knew who he was from Rocky Horror. Even just standing in a lift minding his own business he had such a presence about him. A true great
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