Newly obtained 911 audio captures the urgent response from police and paramedics to Tim Curry’s Hollywood residence on the night authorities say he died.
Curry, the celebrated actor whose career-defining performances included The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died Tuesday evening at his $2 million Los Angeles home, his manager confirmed Wednesday.
The emergency dispatch recordings, reviewed by Our News Outlet, offer a brief window into the moments leading up to the discovery at the actor’s home.
In the audio, dispatchers can be heard repeating Curry’s address and referring to the call as an “ambulance death investigation.” The Los Angeles Police Department told Our News Outlet that “a death investigation report was completed.”
Los Angeles City Fire officials also confirmed to Our News Outlet that crews were sent to a medical call at about 11.23pm at an address believed to be Curry’s home.
Legendary actor Tim Curry died at age 80 on Tuesday night at his Los Angeles, California, home, according to his manager
Dispatchers repeatedly stated Curry’s address during the 911 call and described the incident as an “ambulance death investigation.” Los Angeles City Fire officials said they responded to a medical call at around 11.23pm at an address believed to be Curry’s
First responders arrived at the property and found a male patient, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Fire officials do not release the name 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 Picture Show before starring in the play’s film adaptation.
The very first show he played in was the musical Hair in 1968. He went on to get 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 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 suffered two brain bleeds during the medical emergency, which he did not even realize was happening because he did not feel any of the symptoms as he lay on the massage table in his LA home.
‘It was so strange,’ Curry told CBS Sunday Morning in October 2025. ‘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 Curry, 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.
