Newly released 911 audio has revealed the moment police officers and paramedics rushed to Tim Curry’s Hollywood home the night he died.
Curry, best known for his role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died at his $2million home in Los Angeles on Tuesday evening, his manager said on Wednesday.
Now emergency call audio reviewed by the Daily Mail has revealed what happened just before Curry died. Dispatchers were heard repeatedly stating Curry’s address and called it an ‘ambulance death investigation.’
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to the Daily Mail that ‘a death investigation report was completed.’ LA fire officials confirmed they responded to a medical call around 11.23pm to an address that is believed to be Curry’s.
Legendary actor Tim Curry died at the age of 80 on Tuesday night at his home in Los Angeles, California, his manager said
Dispatchers were heard repeatedly stating Curry’s address and called it an ‘ambulance death investigation.’ Los Angeles City Fire officials confirmed to the Daily Mail that they responded to a medical call around 11.23pm to an address that is believed to be Curry’s
First responders found the male patient, who was declared deceased at the scene. Fire officials do not release the names of patients, but confirmed they responded to the same address as Curry’s.
A cause of death has not yet been determined, but the 80-year-old had been dealing with serious health complications for more than a decade following a stroke he suffered in 2012 that left him unable to walk.
Curry played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Show on the West End in 1973 and on Broadway in 1974 before starring in the play’s film adaptation in 1975.
The very first show he played in was the musical Hair in 1968. He went on to get nominated for the Laurence Olivier 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 final 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 battles last year during a special screening marking The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s 50th anniversary.
Speaking to the audience at LA’s Academy Museum, he said: ‘I still can’t walk, which is why I’m in this silly chair, and that’s very limiting.
‘So, I won’t be singing and I won’t be dancing very soon. I still have real problems with my left leg.’
Since suffering a stroke aged 66, the legendary actor had remained largely out of the public eye.
Curry (pictured in 1975) never married and did not have any children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946
Curry revealed in an interview last year that he had a stroke while he was getting a massage.
He unknowingly suffered two brain bleeds on the massage table in his LA home, feeling none of the symptoms.
‘It was so strange,’ Curry told CBS Sunday Morning last October. ‘I was having a massage and the guy who was giving me a massage said, “I’m worried about you, I think we should call a doctor.”
‘I felt fine, I had no symptoms that I was aware of, but clearly he had noticed some.
‘He called 911 and an ambulance came and they carried me down the stairs of my house on a stretcher and put me in an ambulance and gave me morphine, which was interesting. I wasn’t in pain.
‘I was extremely nervous because I didn’t know what was going on. They didn’t know I’d 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 nearer one, which was a Kaiser Permanente.’
Curry said that when doctors told him he had suffered a stroke, he ‘thought immediately’ of his father James, who survived a stroke when he was just 11 years old.
‘I knew that a lot of people didn’t survive a stroke, and that he was an exception, and so I was scared,’ he said.
Curry (middle) played Dr Frank-N-Furter in the hit musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show before starring in the play’s film adaptation
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 had brain surgery and was in the hospital for ‘about a month’ afterwards for rehabilitation.
‘I had to learn how to speak again, that was very weird,’ he said. ‘I hated not being able to speak because I speak a lot. I have to be told to shut up a lot. I love words, I love to communicate.’
Curry never married and did not have any children. He was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946.
He was the younger 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 12 years old, he lost his father to pneumonia.
