The cause of death of Tim Curry has been unveiled just over a week after the beloved actor passed away on August 25.
The Los Angeles The county Department of Public Health has determined that the Rocky Horror Picture Show star died at age 80 due to coronary artery disease, according to a report obtained by People.
Curry’s history of stroke and kidneys cancer were reportedly listed as contributing factors to his death.
However, the report makes clear that these factors were not related to Curry’s coronary artery disease.
The actor had been struggling with major health problems for years after a… A debilitating stroke in 2012 left him unable to walk.
According to the LA County Department of Public Health report, Curry had not undergone any surgery related to his coronary artery disease or its contributing conditions.
Tim Curry died of coronary artery disease, according to a Los Angeles County Department of Public Health report obtained Wednesday by People; Curry seen above in 2005 in New York
Curry’s history of stroke and kidney cancer were reportedly listed as contributing factors to his death. The actor had been struggling with major health problems for years after a debilitating stroke in 2012 left him unable to walk; Above in September 2025 in LA
Prior to his death, Curry was spotted in Los Angeles in April when he… appeared weak as he was pushed in his wheelchair.
Curry, who moved to LA permanently in 1988, got a taste of home at the Friar Tuck Shoppe, which sells British goods and is located next to the Robin Hood British Pub in the city’s Sherman Oaks neighborhood.
Last year, Curry opened up about the life-changing stroke he suffered in 2012, when he credited the masseuse who noticed the stroke for potentially saving his life.
The Home Alone 2 actor 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 as he lay in his chair on the massage table. Los Angeles At 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. 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.
Last year, Curry opened up about the life-changing stroke he suffered in 2012, crediting the masseuse who witnessed it with potentially saving his life; He is pictured speaking to CBS Sunday Morning about the 2012 ordeal in October 2025
Curry was best known for his role of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show
“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 suffered a stroke, he “immediately” thought of his father, James Curry, who survived a stroke when the Rocky Horror star 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 said he had brain surgery and then spent “about a month” in the hospital for rehabilitation.
“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, who was that? best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died at his LA home on August 25, as confirmed by his manager the next day.
He had suffered from serious health problems for more than a decade and no foul play is suspected.
After the 1973 role that made his name, Curry starred as the diabolical Lord of Darkness opposite Tom Cruise in Ridley Scott’s cult classic Legend and as the butler Wadsworth in the 1985 murder mystery comedy Clue.
In 1985, Curry starred in double box office failures, The Legend of Ridley Scott and the board game-inspired Clue (above). Despite their poor initial reputations, both films developed cult status
Curry was also known for playing the janitor in Home Alone 2 (above)
The films were commercial failures that attracted cult followings in subsequent decades.
Curry was also known for 1992’s Home Alone 2, in which he played Mr Hector, a stuffy and suspicious concierge at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Between 2004 and 2007, Curry portrayed King Arthur in the Monty Python musical Spamalot on stage in Chicago, Broadway and the West End.
Some of his stage credits include My Favorite Year, What About Dick? and Travesties, among others.
In 2015, he was honored with the Actors Fund Lifetime Achievement Award at the Tony Awards Viewing Party in Los Angeles.
Curry opened up about his well-being 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 sing, and I won’t dance anytime soon. I still have real problems with my left leg.’
After the stroke, which he suffered at the age of 67, the legendary actor remained largely out of the public eye.
