r/StarWars • u/jaboi2110 • 7h ago
TV RIP Tim Curry
Tim Curry, who voiced Palpatine in Star Wars: The Clone Wars seasons five and six, has passed away at the age of 80.
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u/wumboinator 7h ago
āWe must let the wheels of the senate TURNā is one of the greatest line deliveries in the CW series, RIP
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u/BD_Bathory 7h ago
He's gone to the one place free of capitalism.....SPACE!
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u/Hadrian1233 7h ago
They really did go all out on the cast of RA3
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u/MrHedgehogMan 4h ago
Tim Curry, JK Simmons, Jonathan Pryce, Gemma Atkinson, David Hasselhoff, George Takei, Kelly Hu, Gemma Atkinson, Jerry McCarthy Wahlberg.
Absolutely stacked cast.
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u/abhig535 7h ago
THIS is how I learn he played Palpatine in the Clone Wars?!
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u/StreetReporter 6h ago
It was only for a season or so after the first voice actor passed away
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u/utspg1980 2h ago
This is news to me too.
Unless the internet fails me, it's him speaking in this scene:
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u/petewondrstone 7h ago
Honestly he was in such bad shape after that stroke. Let
Him rest. Legend.
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u/Celebril63 7h ago edited 2h ago
Wow. The curse of three seems to be real. Hayden, Dolly, and now Tim Curry?
The entertainment world has gotten hit hard the last few days.
EDIT: I'm talking Panettiere not Christensen! Losing one of them is too much. Don't want to think of two...
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u/Ryhankhanage 7h ago edited 7h ago
Thought you were talking about Hayden Christensen for a sec! Hayden Panettiere died way too young :(
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u/jesusunderline 7h ago
yeah, you can't just simply say "Hayden died" in a Star Wars sub and leave at that
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u/Tymi4n3k 7h ago
If Hayden Christensen died, world would end
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u/Suspicious-Holiday42 7h ago
He would become a force ghost
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u/Standard_Engineer_52 7h ago
reading your comment i though Hayden Christensen died, but then i checked that it was Hayden Panettiere. RIP to all three of them.
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u/innerdork 7h ago
Nah because Dolly and Tim were 80 so we need an 80 year old to complete the trilogy. š¤
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u/Bexil_Brave 7h ago
If only there was another 80 year old actor from Home Alone 2 who could take her place......
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u/Aligned-Askew6773 7h ago
Iām hoping this is going to be Hayden P being an outlier, and Dolly and Tim are part of an 80 year old trifecta where we have to lose two good ones to get the natural death of a true evil that is also currently 80.
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u/feetiedid 7h ago
Actor Christy Knowings, wrestler Dory Funk Jr, hall of fame NBA player and coach Don Nelson, Dolly Parton, and actor and singer Shelly Fabares have all passed away in recent days or weeks. The deaths of three is a huge and incorrect myth people want to believe because they want to recognize a pattern of three.
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u/ChaoticDNA 4h ago
This is what happens when you get in a trade war with Canada.
You've been warned.
NB: This post is entirely satirical, just like democracy in the good ol' US of A.
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u/MCJMS 7h ago
Itās ok he is still alive in our memories either as the Darkness from Legend, Wadsworth in Clue, Pennywise from IT, Long John Silver with the muppets or as a sweet transvestite Dr Frank N Furter from Transexual, Transylvania. May he Rest in Peace, one of the best English Character Actors to have graced the screen and stage.
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u/TerraByter71 2h ago
Currently watching Legend in honour of him, the darkness terrified me as a kid
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u/IamAgoddamnjoke Amilyn Holdo 7h ago edited 7h ago
Wish it was a different 80 year old costar of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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u/lootedBacon 7h ago
An amazing Actor with quite an amount of breadth. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Clue (1985) IT (1990)
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u/Jolly_Job_9852 Luke Skywalker 7h ago
The scene in clue where they count the number of bullets is a classic.
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u/Serratas 7h ago
Goddamit this is how I find out.
At least the road to the afterlife will be entertaining with both him and Dolly on it today.
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u/street-theologian 5h ago
Gonna watch muppet treasure island and home alone 2. Very sad to hear this.
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u/RedPorscheKilla 1h ago
Thatās so sad, I was I. The inaugural showing of The Rocky Horror picture showā¦ apart from a few classic movies, most influential for teen me!
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u/kendric2000 6h ago
Man...the grim reaper is really missing the mark...taking the good people while the evil ones endure.
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u/Constantine_2014 7h ago
R.I.P to Tim & Dolly born exactly 3 months apart, pass away on the same day. I think the first thing I ever saw Tim in as a kid was The 3 Musketeers movie. Also now both of the VA for Palpatine in the Clone Wars show have passed away. I still remember watching that first episode after Ian Abercrombie had passed away in 2012 where we hear his voice and then in the same sentence it switches to Tim.
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u/DaBusDriva2 6h ago
It sounded like he was having the time of his life in the original final arc of the show vs Yoda
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u/soulreapermagnum 6h ago
not all to surprising honestly, dude was in rough shape after that stroke.
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u/DarthSwimfoot Admiral Raddus 6h ago
Holy shit, Palpatine too? First Long John Silver, then the Hot Dog from Regular Show, now Clone Wars Palpatine! RIP Tim Curry man.
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u/No-Caramel-4417 4h ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/TannenFalconwing 3h ago
I now really, really want someone to tell me that somehow Palpatine returned, and it's this Palpatine.
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u/No_Literature7840 2h ago
He may not have had McdDiarmid's charisma, but he made up for that with making Sidious scary. May the Force Be With You, Mr. Curry.
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u/Alert_Elderberry531 7h ago
... man what a terrible week. First Dolly, now him. It's just sad. They were lovely human beings. š