{"id":1025660,"date":"2026-08-26T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:16:12","slug":"tim-curry-british-actor-and-rocky-horror-picture-show-icon-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1025660\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Curry, British actor and &#8216;Rocky Horror Picture Show&#8217; icon, dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Tim Curry, the British actor who became a pop-culture icon as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in &#8220;The Rocky Horror Picture Show,&#8221; has died. He was 80.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">Curry&#8217;s death was confirmed by his publisher, Jimmy Franco, senior director of publicity at Grand Central Publishing. &#8220;Yes, it is true and very sad indeed.&#8221; Franco added that he did not have a statement to share at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Curry\u2019s decades-long career included memorable roles in &#8220;It,&#8221; &#8220;Clue&#8221; and &#8220;Annie.&#8221; He suffered a major stroke in 2012 and spent years recovering. His death marks the loss of one of film and theater\u2019s most distinctive performers.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. Please check back for more developments.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an entertainment reporter for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Tim Curry, the British actor who became a pop-culture icon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1025661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,68576,171,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1025660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-departed","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117162946462519077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}