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I know it's a bit late, but i have this screenshot from a Mastodon post that is funny.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ron Gilbert, what a legend. If you haven't played Thimbleweed Park you've been missing out.

I didn't know it was Tim Curry, but I'm pretty sure that his performance that I saw was in "Legend". Then most likely IT.
I don't didn't I played enough Wing Commander III (also feat. Mark Hamill, John Davies Rhys and other known actors, absolutely stacked for its time) to have met the character that Tim Curry voiced there, but I for sure played enough Toonstruck to have heard his acting there! Also an amazing game which features Christopher Lloyd.

[–] Ertain@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago

Thimbleweed Park is good. I'm sure the sequel is going to be good, too.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago
[–] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster on CD-ROM

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)
[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 19 hours ago

Tim Curry and Alan Rickman never starred in the same film together, TIL

[–] DLS@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

I know him as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island... What age does that make me?

[–] heliotrope@slrpnk.net 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Mr. Hector (the concierge) in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992)

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

This for me too, I had Home Alone 2 recorded off the TV on VHS as a kid.

[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 5 points 21 hours ago

I still think of him as having a giant grinch grin

"I'm going to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism! SPACE!"

I just love when actors are clearly having a great time in their role. It makes me happy. RIP Tim Curry, truly we lost a good one.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Nigel Thornberry from The Wild Thornberrys

But more iconically from Rocky Horror.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

That was one of my favorites, and I love Nigel so much. You blew my mind with this, I had absolutely no clue. He was ever present in our upbringing

[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

I cannot think of the word smashing without thinking of his voice.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 21 hours ago

Til that was him

[–] SayJess@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

He absolutely made that show so awesome.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

He was the oh so smarmily, charmingly, evil Cardinal Richelieu in the Three Musketeers for me.

He was having too much fun in that role.

I think this and The Hunt for Red October are my earliest memories of him. Muppet Treasure Island is probably my favorite though.

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just watched it (for the thirtieth time) in his honor.

[–] tpyo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Such a great movie I fell in love with the movie and the Butler the first time I saw it, and is on the list of "will watch repeatedly"

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For me, it was Hexxus in "Ferngully, the last Rainforest".

Both him and Robin Williams gave amazing performances for an animated movie for kids.

To this day, whenever I stumble or trip and fall, I still catch myself saying "Gravity works", or when I touch something disgusting, I'll end up singing "Slime beneath me, ooh, slime up above!"

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Toxic Love plays randomly in my head to this day. Right now it's that and Jolene going back and forth which is an interesting contrast.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What. Happened. To. The. ENER-GY!?

It is such a quotable movie.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago

I primarily knew him from Muppet Treasure Island.

IT. The 1990 TV movie.

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Born in ‘77, first saw him in Legend as Satan Himself. Much creepier than Pennywise if you ask me. I actually didn’t see Rocky Horror until my teens in the early 90s, I’ve seen it dozens of times since then. It’s my favorite role of his by far, he had so much fun and had a wonderful stage presence in it.

[–] sartalon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I LOVED Legend growing up. I did not recognize him as Tim Curry though, until later in life.

[–] antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago

Yeah… same.
Only know him of C&C and the awesome movie Congo (including the awesome PC game)

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Legend for me, but not until a few years after it's home video release. My parents got it after Willow was a hit with me, and... well...

[–] raglan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Saw it in theater as an 8yr old. My little mind was blown by the final speech he did as darkness.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yep, legend here as well. It was all over HBO Showtime and Cinemax in the mid 80s.

[–] qualia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Wadsworth, Mr Boddy's butler.

[–] natedog526@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

For me, that would have to be Captain Hook of Peter Pan and the Pirates.

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Welcome to Toonstruck! Mwahahaha

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

special room for special people!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can't even remember. Probably the Muppets. I did know of him before he was ever in Command & Conquer, tho. IIRC, Clue is older than C&C too. Came out the same year I was born.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 8 points 1 day ago

He was so prolific throughout my childhood that it's hard to even think of just one. IT, Clue, The Three Musketeers, Congo....

[–] cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

first saw him in Clue but that doesnt show my age, i first saw it about ten years ago lol

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Rocky Horror.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Rocky!

Janet! Dr Scott! Janet! Brad! Rocky!

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 1 points 15 hours ago
[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

pensive head twist glare from Rocky

[–] tkohldesac@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Long John to his friends.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights.

[–] CromulantCrow@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

In the theater watching Rocky Horror, toast flying, newspaper on heads, people up at the front acting it out. good times...

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

“Eughweare ipfz zee meekeowfilm?”