Tim Curry, the prolific performer who transformed for the screen

Tim Curry was a versatile performer of stage and screen who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. Curry’s best-known roles often required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in some of them. As Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s eccentric scientist, he was daubed in garish makeup and dressed in stockings and suspenders Ridley Scott’s fantasy Legend, he sported giant horns and scarlet skin as the Lord of Darkness and, in 1990, Curry was transformed with full-face clown makeup to play Pennywise in the TV miniseries It, based on Stephen King’s novel

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80