What has been Tim Curry's greatest role?

[Glorfindel]

Poll question: What has been Tim Curry's greatest role?

A highly significant poll for a Friday afternoon in May

[kentauros]

1. One I didn't know he was in and have been looking for:

Pass the Ammo - Rev. Ray Porter

I'll have to see if I can find a copy somewhere :)

[Glorfindel]

5. Hey, thanks...I've never heard of "Pass the Ammo"

I'll have to see if it's available on Netflix. :hi:

[kentauros]

7. One of the reviews is titled "Tim Curry as Jim Bakker"

so you know it's got to be good! :D

[jobycom]

25. That was a funny movie. nt

[flvegan]

2. The Butler in "Clue"

Even though I'm a RHPS addict.

[LeftyMom]

11. It's like I don't even know you anymore.

:cry:

[flvegan]

20. What? That was his best role for him.

[LeftyMom]

21. No bustier. No crossdressing aliens. Doesn't count. Sorry.

[Bertha Venation]

3. You missed the butler in "Clue" and the bad guy in "Annie"

I liked him as the butler.

to Col. Mustard: I'm the butler, sir.

Col. Mustard: What do you do?

Butler: I butle, sir.

[Glorfindel]

4. And I'm certain that he buttled well, too!

Speaking of butlers, have you seen "Murder By Death," in which Alec Guinness plays the blind butler Jamessir Bensonmum? It's a gem.

[Aristus]

12. Did you know that butler/buttle is one of those weird words where the noun came first

and then the verb? There's this guy, right? And he's a butler. So what does he do? He buttles!

Another word like that is 'beggar.'

First came beggars. Someone had to decide what it is beggars do. And came up with 'beg.'

[Glorfindel]

17. I didn't know, but thank you for the info. I love obscure facts like that!

n/t

[Chan790]

6. Wadsworth the Butler in Clue

Hammy and over-the-top in an absurd cliched role, it's the performances of the cast that save a terrible script.

[Bossy Monkey]

8. I hear good things about his King Arthur

not that I made it to Broadway or the West End in time, but still.

[deepthought42]

30. I didn't either, but I have the soundtrack w/him as King Arthur...

Hilarious. :D

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. He was pretty good as a Wilderness Girl.

:D

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

10. I kinda liked him in Earth 2

He does make a great bad guy!

[Spacemom]

13. I fell in love with Tim Curry

the first time I saw Rocky Horror at the tender age of 13.

A piece of my heart will always belong to him. :loveya:

[leftofthedial]

14. He was amazingly wicked in "Three Mustketeers,"

but the "Rocky Horror" role is iconic.

[WolverineDG]

15. He was good in Hunt for Red October too

one of those movies I was :wow: about the fact he got cast in it.

dg

[KamaAina]

16. In just seven days...

(all together now: "And seven nights!"),

I can make you a ma-a-a-a-an!

[Broken_Hero]

18. Lord of Darkness, in Legend...

I didn't even know it was him, until the credits rolled....

[Taverner]

19. Clue!

[Starry Messenger]

22. This thread is worthless without pictures.

:D

My vote.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. a very nasty villian in a story arc on 'Wiseguy' . He was wickedly bad ..at that

point I didn't even connect him with Rocky Horrer even though I had seen it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I liked him as the prosecutor in Waters' "The Wall" in Berlin in 1990.

[jobycom]

26. Nigel Thornberry in "The Wild Thornberrys." Either the series or the movies.

ONe of those cute little shows that makes having to watch cartoons with your kids almost enjoyable.

[Iggo]

27. I watched that with the kid.

She's in college now, but I still get a laugh outa her when I answer her phonecalls with Nigel's long drawn out and nasally "Hello."

[jobycom]

28. Ha! Some of his lines have made it into our family lexicon, too.

"That's called sarcasm, Dear," and "Oh, you're being sarcastic. You do that a lot, don't you?" They may not be exact quotes, but they were inspired by Nigel.

[Orsino]

29. He preceded Tom Hulce in the title role of Amadeus...

...onstage, that is. Would have liked to have seen that one.

[DarkTirade]

31. You left out 'bad guy penguin' in the more-than-forgetable late Bluth 'The Pebble and the Penguin'

:P

[realisticphish]

32. Long John Silver

in Muppet Treasure Island

[blogslut]

33. Well, I'll always love him as Frank-N-Furter

...because that's how I was introduced to him and fell in love with him.

As for his greatest role, I think that is yet to be. While Mr. Curry is often a wonderful player, I'm still waiting for him to be presented with a worthy starring vehicle in film.

Just the same, a part that has yet to be mentioned was his role as "Johnny LaGuardia" in the 1980 film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081635">Times Square.

[Strong Atheist]

34. He WAS great in "Clue", but he was a CLASSIC in RHPS; with

animal magnetism to spare ...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

35. Mr. French in Family Affair.