‘He could arch both eyebrows and curl his lips in every direction all at once’: Tim Curry’s five best screen roles

The actor fully embraced his physical talents and outsized personality with a line in theatrical baddies teetering deliciously on the edge of serious and silly • Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 • Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom • Clowns, corsets and kings: Tim Curry – a life in pictures As Dr Frank-N-Furter, the gender-nonconforming alien mad scientist who presides over Richard O’Brien’s glam rock musica...

By Laurence Phelan