Newly released 911 audio has shed light on the emergency response at Tim Curry’s Hollywood home on the night the legendary actor died.

Curry, best known for his unforgettable portrayal of Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died Tuesday evening at his $2 million Los Angeles home, according to his manager, who confirmed his death on Wednesday. He was 80.

Audio reviewed by the Daily Mail captures dispatchers repeatedly giving an address believed to be Curry’s residence. The call was described as an “ambulance death investigation.”

Los Angeles City Fire officials confirmed that crews responded to a medical emergency at an address believed to be Curry’s at approximately 11:23 p.m.

When first responders arrived, they found a male patient who was pronounced dead at the scene. Fire officials said they do not release patients’ names, but confirmed that their crews had been dispatched to the same address associated with Curry.

A cause of death has not been determined.

A career spanning stage and screen

Curry built a remarkable career across theater, television and film, with his performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show becoming his defining role.

He first appeared on stage in the musical Hair in 1968. He later earned Laurence Olivier Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical for his performances as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance and King Arthur in Spamalot.

His screen credits included Home Alone 2, Charlie’s Angels, Scary Movie 2, It and Peter Pan & the Pirates, among many others.

His final television role came in 2010, when he appeared as criminal Billy Flynn in two episodes of Criminal Minds.

Curry’s long battle with the effects of a stroke

Curry had largely remained out of the public eye since suffering a stroke in 2012 at the age of 66. The stroke left him unable to walk, and he continued to experience serious health complications for more than a decade.

He spoke publicly about those challenges last year during a special screening celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles.

Addressing the audience, Curry said he still could not walk and relied on a wheelchair. He also acknowledged that the condition had severely limited his ability to perform.

“I still can’t walk, which is why I’m in this silly chair, and that’s very limiting,” he said. “So, I won’t be singing and I won’t be dancing very soon. I still have real problems with my left leg.”

Curry later revealed that he had experienced the stroke while receiving a massage at his Los Angeles home. He suffered two brain bleeds during the medical emergency but did not initially realize that anything was wrong because he had experienced none of the symptoms he expected.

He did not realize he was having a stroke

Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning in October 2025, Curry recalled how the person giving him the massage became concerned about his condition.

“It was so strange,” he said. “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.’”

Curry said he felt completely fine and had not noticed any symptoms himself.

“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.”

He remembered being extremely nervous because neither he nor the medical team initially knew what was happening.

Curry asked to be taken to Cedars-Sinai, which he described as probably the best hospital in Los Angeles, but paramedics told him they had to take him to a closer facility. He was taken to a Kaiser Permanente hospital instead.

When doctors eventually told him that he had suffered a stroke, Curry immediately thought of his father, James Curry, who had survived a stroke when he was only 11.

“I knew that a lot of people didn’t survive a stroke, and that he was an exception, and so I was scared,” Curry said.

Following the stroke, Curry underwent brain surgery and spent about a month in the hospital undergoing rehabilitation.

One of his biggest challenges was relearning how to speak.

“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.”

Early life and family

Curry was born in Cheshire, England, in 1946. He was the younger child of Patricia, a school secretary, and James, a Royal Navy chaplain.

His older sister, Judith, was a concert pianist. She died in 2001.

Curry grew up in Plymouth and attended boarding school. In 1958, when he was 12, his father died of pneumonia.

He never married and had no children.

The Los Angeles Police Department was contacted by the Daily Mail for comment.