Newly released 911 audio has revealed the moment police officers and paramedics rushed to Tim Curry’s Hollywood home the night he died.
Curry, an iconic actor best known for his roles in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died Tuesday evening at his $2 million Los Angeles home, his manager said Wednesday.
Now, 911 audio reviewed by the Daily Mail has provided a glimpse of what happened just before Curry died.
Dispatchers were repeatedly heard mentioning Curry’s address, calling it an “ambulance death investigation.” The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to the Daily Mail that “a death investigation report had been completed.”
Los Angeles City Fire Department officials confirmed to the Daily Mail that they responded to a medical call to an address believed to be Curry’s around 11:23 p.m.
Legendary actor Tim Curry died Tuesday evening at the age of 80 at his home in Los Angeles, California, his manager said.
Dispatchers were repeatedly heard mentioning Curry’s address, calling it an “ambulance death investigation.” Los Angeles City Fire Department officials confirmed to the Daily Mail that they responded to a medical call to an address believed to be Curry’s around 11:23 p.m.
Emergency responders arriving at the home found the male patient, who was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Fire officials are not releasing the names of the patients, but confirm they responded to the same address as Curry’s.
No cause of death has yet been determined, but the 80-year-old had suffered serious health complications for more than a decade after a stroke he suffered in 2012 left him unable to walk.
Curry played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before starring in the film adaptation of the play.
The very first show he starred in was the musical Hair in 1968. He was subsequently nominated for the Laurence Oliver Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his roles in The Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance and King Arthur in Spamalot.
He was also known for his many on-screen roles in Home Alone 2, Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, It and Peter Pan & the Pirates, among others.
His last TV role was in 2010, when he played a criminal named Billy Flynn in two episodes of Criminal Minds.
He opened up about his health problems last year during a special screening to mark the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Speaking to the audience at the Academy Museum in LA, he said: ‘I still can’t walk, so I sit in this crazy chair, and it’s very limiting.
“So I won’t be singing and I won’t be dancing anytime soon. I still have real problems with my left leg.’
Since suffering a stroke at the age of 66, the legendary actor had largely remained out of the public eye.
Curry (pictured in 1975) never married or had children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946
Curry revealed in an interview last year that he suffered a stroke while getting a massage.
He suffered two brain bleeds during the medical emergency, which he didn’t even know was happening because he didn’t feel any of the symptoms while lying on the massage table in his LA home.
“It was so strange,” Curry told CBS on Sunday morning in October 2025. “I was getting a massage and the guy giving me a massage said, ‘I’m worried about you, I think we need to call a doctor.’
‘I felt fine, I had no symptoms that I was aware of, but he had obviously noticed a few.
“He called 911 and an ambulance came and they carried me down the stairs of my house on a stretcher, put me in an ambulance and gave me morphine, which was interesting. I had no pain.
‘I was very nervous because I didn’t know what was going on. They didn’t know I had had a stroke and I didn’t know either.
“I said can you take me to Cedars-Sinai, which is probably the best hospital in the city, and they said they had to take me to a closer hospital, a Kaiser Permanente.”
Curry said that when doctors told him he had had a stroke, he “immediately” thought of his father, James Curry, who survived a stroke when he was just 11 years old.
“I knew that many people don’t survive strokes, and that he was an exception, so I was scared,” he said.
Curry (center) played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before starring in the film adaptation of the play
He was also known for his many on-screen roles in Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, It (pictured) and Peter Pan & the Pirates, among others.
After the episode, he underwent brain surgery and was then in hospital for rehabilitation for ‘about a month’.
“I had to learn to talk again, which was very strange,” he said. ‘I hated not being able to talk, because I talk a lot. I have to be told to keep quiet a lot. I love words, I love communicating.’
Curry never married or had children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946.
He was the youngest child of Patricia, a school secretary, and James, a Royal Navy chaplain. He had an older sister, Judith, a concert pianist, who died in 2001.
Curry grew up in Plymouth and went to boarding school. Then in 1958, when he was just twelve years old, he lost his father to pneumonia.
