We'll just go ahead and assume that the line about Curry playing Lurch was a (poorly written) joke.

"We'll just go ahead and assume that the line about Curry playing Lurch was a (poorly written) joke."

Forgive me, it's early - I don't get it.

"We'll just go ahead and assume that the line about Curry playing Lurch was a (poorly written) joke."

Simply, Curry did not play Lurch...ever. Carel Struycken (semi-regular on Star Trek) was Lurch in the previous two movies.

Blaming poor writing is probably fair. What does that comment in the open-ended bracket in the introduction mean? C'mon, give things a quick proof read. Curry deserves it.

Lurch was played by Carel Struycken not Tim Curry in the first two Addams Family movies.

Good list, though I'm sure limiting it to 10 was a daunting task. I wonder if he's done 10 not-weird roles...

joel wyatt, there's nothing to get. I was jokingly pointing out that Tim Curry was not Lurch.

Julius Gryphon, that response also applies to your comment. I'm aware that Curry was not lurch and was jokingly calling the writer out on that mistake.

Aware that Curry was not Lurch, that is. Forgot to capitalize. Coffee should fix that.

Good list, but you overlooked Curry's recurring role as King Chicken on the animated Duckman TV series. No one else could pull off a character that's a five foot tall evil genius talking chicken with an Elvis-esque hairpiece quite like Curry.

Dread, I knew you understood. I was explaining for joel wyatt.

And my comment about poor writing was in reference to the writer of the lists typos at the beginning. Sorry for any confusion. I meant no offense.

Still a good list. Any chance I get to see Curry pop his eyes a bit makes me happy.

I think his only non-weird role may be Dr. Petrov in "The Hunt for Red October." I kept thinking he was going to do something strange in the movie, but then I realized, "oh, he's just the ship's doctor."

Really? Not the guy from Congo?

He got beat on by guys in albino gorilla costumes.

That's weird, right?

I'd still have his babies.

Man, I was really hoping Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was gonna make the list. It's probably not his weirdest role, but it certainly stands out. Plus, it's a mid 90s mashup of California Dreams meets Power Rangers, created on a 486. That's got "so bad, it's good" written all over it!

"Sure, John Cleese, Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, and Richar Pryor all worked with the Muppets,"

Ahem. Michael freaking Caine!

Also - while Curry's role in The Shadow wasn't especially weird, damn he was awesome in it.

As I read down this list I kept thinking "Where is the Grand Wizard? Where is the Grand Wizard?" And then I got to #1. Fuck to the yeah! The Worst Witch Of The All is the awesome. It featured Fairuza at the peak of her hottness(No Sickos, it wasn't in Return to Oz)!

@lay

yah i totally agree curry cant do anything normal

but hes got the voice of an angel

I'm kind of glad you had The Worst Witch on this list. I had kind of thought I imagined it or dreamed it while intoxicated. I'm glad it really exists. Sort of.

MAL was voiced by David Rappaport (Randall in Time Bandits) before his death meant Tim Curry had to take over.

It's David who can be heard in your clip.

Curry did a great job as Doviculus in the Brutal Legend video game.

i was going to be surprised and upset if frank n furter did not make the list for nothing more bizar then Tim dancing around in drag. though would have had frank or darkness at number one not the grand wizard from worse witch . this list shows any bizzare role can be made more interesting if its got the magic of Tim Currey or scary to the max like penny wise

Wow. All this talk about Tim Curry not playing Lurch and I thought I'D look like a total geek for complaining about how Mark Hamill winning the role of The Joker was due to his wowing the producers of Batman: TAS with his performance as the executive responsible for killing Victor Freis' wife and turning him into Mr. Freeze - not because Tim Curry's Joker was too crazy.

Great List! And I was ready to complain about why Darkness and Pennywise should had been higher in the list BUT you kill me with that 80s FX overload wonder that is "The Worst Witch".

I have seen every one of these movies, except for the Addams Family one. Much like Bela Lugosi, Curry gives his all in each performance, and can make even the worst movies worth watching. The man is a friggin' national treasure.

Although its not his weirdest- although working with Mutates and Gargoyles and gods are a little weird..

I would have added Dr.Savarius from Gargoyles-- just because anytime I can add a Gargoyles reference to a List I would---

He was also a little of his rocker (although not entirely like some of these other roles- in the Shadow...

Funny story- A few years ago at one of the many Rocky Horror showings I have attended over the years (I am one of those) there was a guy there dressed as Dr. Frank. Well, he looked so much like Tim Curry that people were just freaking out over him, asking for his autograph and to this day I am still not certain that it wasn't him. Sounded like him and everything so either there is a really, really, REALLY good Tim Curry impersonator out there or I somehow managed to attend Rocky Horror with Tim Curry dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

And now I have Sweet Transvestite stuck in my head

To this day I will go nowhere near sewer drains in the curb.
I read 'It' before watching the entire movie and when I read the line 'They all float down here.' I thought it was cheesy. That is until Mr. Curry traumatized me, I still get chills when I hear or read it.

Nice list, although I have sworn for years not to watch IT ever again.... it's one of those things that really sticks with you, but I had to click play. Fuck.

Weird I always thought The Grand Wizard was played by Terrence Mann in Worst Witch.
One of my favorite movies as a kid BTW. but I always shut if off before the final song and dance number.

Hexxus scared me half to death when I was younger. Tim Curry's wildly-inappropriate-for-a-children's-film voice did not help either.
Nice list!

Curry also did some giant fat guy in a few Monk episodes. And was a great Captain Hook in Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates, AND recently the butler MR. French is the newer remake of Family Affair, that also starred Gary Cole as the dad

Oh Jesus, I thought I'd finally forgotten the Grand Wizard's song and dance number, but you had to go and bring it all back.

Better call my therapist again...

"Sure, John Cleese, Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, and Richar Pryor all worked with the Muppets, but they didn't dress as pirates with goofy accents. "

John Cleese did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQLJF7FWU8

In the numerous versions I have seen of The Three Musketeers, Curry is the best Cardinal Richelieu of the bunch.

As the person who may be the biggest Tim Curry fan on the planet, I give you a huge salute for this. What a wonderful, if weird, trip down memory lane. I'd love to see a list of his *best* roles sometime, although at least a few would have to overlap.

Don't make me laugh!

What about his role as a big raping penguin?

The Pebble and the Penguin.

Also, if you look up Hexus on youtube, there is a longer version that was cut for being too sexual.

It goes along the lines of talking about orgasming.

Pretty much ties Tim Curry back to RHPS.

Kilokhan from Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad doesn't make the list? C'mon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv_Z0iPCq2M

Oh, God, I thought that The Worst Witch was something I had seen in a nightmare. I could totally see Tim fronting an 80's synth band, though.

Does no one remember the Tim Curry performance of three roles in a Tales From the Crypt Episode. He played some bumpkin parents who killed salespersons who came to their house in a fashion that related to what they were selling. He also played the daughter who couldnt find a husband, an obese and very ugly woman. Poor Ed Begley, Jr. had to simulate sex with Tim Curry as the obese and very ugly woman. Quite a weird one as I recall.

Yes, yes, I know that Curry didn't play Lurch in the Addams Family films. Give me some credit as a writer! Please! It was a joke that got tossed about during the editing that got a little weird. Sorry!

I suppose they're not 'weird' roles, but he was awesome as the Butler in "Clue" and more recently as Doviculus in the video game "Brutal Legend"

what?! No love for Poet Man from the second Lexx movie?
He was the last man alive on a far away planet who vandalized the civilizations archives with holographic simulations of himself that then tried to impregnate one of the male leads with a robot arm weilding a syringe of his own frozen seed!

A few years ago for a Rocky Horror Convention I made up a T-shirt with the "many faces of Tim" on it. It included almost all of the list above and it also had more, some of which were listed in the comments above. I wonder what ever happened to that shirt? I also wish I could remember all the photos I used so I could update it for the roles he has played since then.

I totally watched Worst Witch growing up and I remembered him! and reading this list I was waiting for his appearance to show up, and you made it #1! Great choice!

@dragonmamma/naomi,
Since you put the qualifier "I have seen" in your post, I'm going to hope that means you're not suggesting that Curry was a better Richelieu than Vincent Price. If so, I call B.S.

Tim Curry has played a "normal" role. He was Rooster in Annie, and he was AWESOME!

I know it's not really one of his weirdest roles, but I would just like to give a brief mention of his role as Skullmaster on the criminally underrated Mighty Max series. He did an amazing job as the archvillain, who never lost, by the way. Of course, all the voice actors on that show were great, but Tim was probably the best.

"Guardian said:
What about his role as a big raping penguin?"

I just lost it. There was a brief moment where I thought I was going to die from not being able to breathe. Never has forgetting a letter in a word been so awesome as in this sentence.

Pennywise doesn't scare me nearly so much as the Grand Wizard...

Well said Butts_mcCracken, I have to say His voice work as Dr. Anton Sevarius, one of the very few characters to die in a Disney movie. a creepy dr. Mindbender-esque lunatic prone to brain-taping.

I would pick his work in the Colour of Magick, a terry pratchett novella(on the off chance the author is reading this, Your name is Terry Pratchett. I repeat, Terry Pratchett.). He played Trymon, the ambitious archmage with no qualms about eliminating his superiors.

I just cant get past that rape face of his. {shiver} he is one creepy dude

I met Tim after seeing him on Broadway in Monty Python's Spamalot! He got to do some crazy stuff in that show too and he seemed to really be having fun. In person he's very nice and actually quite a bit shorter than you'd expect.
Personally, I think he's got the most epic voice since Vincent Price.

@claw - yes, Lexx!

No Captain Hook?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM77LTMPEEc

I second Claw and Kes - Poet was quite a disturbing role. He was basically a chatty hologram who congratulated visitors on their decision to commit suicide while extremely nasty steampunk machinery sliced them lengthwise like process cheese. Plus, millennia of disuse had left him demented and disposed to versifying. That's gotta at least be on a par with "evil clown".

Has anyone seen my tambourine?

He was also King Arthur in Monty Python's spamalot

Skeletor:
""Guardian said:
What about his role as a big raping penguin?"

I just lost it. There was a brief moment where I thought I was going to die from not being able to breathe. Never has forgetting a letter in a word been so awesome as in this sentence."

Lol. I was typing around someone else at the time. But, he did rap as well. He was a big singing penguin.

You forgot him in that weird Frankenstein game...

Earth 2?

Tim Curry's Tales from the Crypt episode definitely should be on this list.

i liked him as the count character he played in the PC game Toonstruck. weird and fitting for him as a toon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kYhzVY0ZRY

if you wanna see him in it just youtube it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6tHuNa4EI

skip to 6:40

Secret shame time... I loved him as the voice of Kilokahn (I think that's how you spell it) in Superhuman Syber Squad... but then again, I watched that show mainly because I hated Power Rangers... awesome music, though.

Tim Curry is less than awesome.

Wow. Saying that...I hated to but I had to. Because now by definition, I'm officially no longer a nerd! Thank you, Topless Robot!

Shoot. Wait. Now I don't belong to anything. Outcast and misaligned!

Tim Curry has played more than one "normal" role. In addition to the one listed above, he was Thornton Poole in Oscar. Yes the Stallone "comedy".

And as for weird do videogames count? If so I would add Malek from Wing Commander 3. Giant talking space cat FTW!

jeni said:

Tim Curry has played a "normal" role. He was Rooster in Annie, and he was AWESOME!"

Hey! Someone else remembers 'Annie'?

Tho I'd call his role, borderline "weird"...

FurnGully was actually the first movie I think I ever saw in theaters. My 2 step brothers (one of whom died a few years later) took my sister and I to see it. I remember being completely impressed with Hexxus. I had great taste even as a five year old. :p

i've got to say if we count video games tim curry as the sovet premier in command and conquer red alert 3 just made me love that game

He also played the main evil wizard in the BBC's mini-series version of Discworld! WHO DOESN'T LOVE TIM CURRY?!

Tim Curry played William Shakespeare in a movie I saw in High School English. I thought maybe that wasn't weird, but TIM CURRY PLAYED WILLIAM FUCKING SHAKESPEARE. Any role that man plays will automatically be weird because he's the one playing it. Such is the Curry Curse.

MAN! The Worst Witch used by the shit when I was kid. It's so insane now, but nevertheless makes me really nostalgic.

I... am a huge fan of FernGully. In fact, it's one of my favourite animated movies ever. My sister and I have been known to quote at one another ad nauseum.

His role in Congo as a Romanian billionaire named Herkermer Homolka is pretty weird. He uses one of the most hilariously bad accents ever put to film. Also of note: Ernie Hudson doing a Clark Gable impression. It's like those two guys got together and decided to push what would have been a strictly bad movie into so bad it's good territory.

Surprised no video games made the list. Curry was tapped to voice the titular hero in Sierra's mid-90's adventure game series Gabriel Knight (although he was absent from the second game).

The main character was a New Orleans detective who spoke in a Cajun accent, so of course Curry attacked it with a far from nuanced approach. Curry should team up with the guy who voiced Gambit in the 90's X-men cartoon for some ear-bleeding creole conversations.

Tim Curry is utterly amazing.
I am a huge fan.
I'm suprised The Rocky Horror Picture Show's character Dr Frank -N- Furter wasn't shown here.
Or the Lord of Darkness from Legend..
or even Wasdsworth in Clue.
Tim should be recognised for his work a lot more than he already is..
He should be just as famous as Jim Carey because he is just fantastic, :)

Sorry i didn't see the next page..
Still Tim is amazing!

Gotta drum up the love for Fern Gully. It was fun, had a great villain, a stellar goofy bat (voiced by Robin Williams, no less), a love triangle (part of whom was Christian Slater), and a good "be nice to the earth" message before it was too trendy. Didn't realize it was Tim Curry the first umpteen times I watched it, but eventually I found out and that made it all the much cooler. It is required watching for my children. Ass-awful, indeed!