{"id":659202,"date":"2026-08-27T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659202\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:19:14","slug":"what-is-your-favourite-tim-curry-film-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/659202\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your favourite Tim Curry film? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRIBUTES HAVE POURED in for actor Tim Curry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/tim-curry-dead-7143114-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">who has died at the age of 80.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curry enjoyed a long career spanning decades, with some of his best-known roles including Frank-N-Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rooster Hannigan in Annie, Mr Hector in Home Alone 2 and Pennywise in the 1990 adaptation of It.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Carol Burnett and author Stephen King are among those to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/tributes-paid-tim-curry-death-aged-80-rip-7143611-Aug2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pay tribute<\/a> to Curry, with Burnett saying \u201cnobody could play lovable villains better\u201d than her Annie co-star.<\/p>\n<p>The Muppets Instagram account also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Dcgm_DTlIZE\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">posted a tribute<\/a> to the actor, who starred in Muppet Treasure Island, describing him as \u201cwitty, charming, unnerving and deeply funny\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As many reflect on his life and career, we want to ask: <strong>What is your favourite Tim Curry film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>The Rocky Horror Picture Show (546)<\/p>\n<p>Muppet Treasure island (173)<\/p>\n<p>Other (let us know in the comments) (121)<\/p>\n<p>The Three Musketeers (91)<\/p>\n<p>Addams Family Reunion (52)<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIBUTES HAVE POURED in for actor Tim Curry, who has died at the age of 80. Curry enjoyed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[79713,18,117,597,19,17,327,7931,13593,157218,79718,55236,7932],"class_list":["post-659202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-annie","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-poll","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-the-rocky-horror-picture-show","tag-tim-curry","tag-tributes","tag-your-say"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}