Tributes paid to ‘lovable villain’ and ‘honorary Muppet’ Tim Curry

Actor Tim Curry died aged 80

Tim Curry’s versatile career spanned stage and screen (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)

US actress and comedian Carol Burnett has led tributes for her “dear friend” and Annie co-star Tim Curry who died aged 80, saying: “Nobody could play lovable villains better than he could”.

Curry’s versatile career spanned stage and screen with notable film credits including transvestite alien scientist Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Pennywise in It (1990), and the concierge in Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992).