One-time movie icon Tim Curry

For most movie goers, Tim Curry and Dr. Frank N. Furter are practically synonymous.

Curry, born in England, broke into show biz as a cast member of the wild and crazy musical Hair, in 1968.

His iconic celebrity with U.S. audiences came a few years later with his envelope-pushing, completely outrageous performance as a mad scientist/transvestite in America's greatest cult movie, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).

Curry has done well in legitimate theater, with a role in Tom Stoppard's Travesties, as Mozart in Amadeus, as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance and as King Arthur in Spamalot.

His TV work has been limited, but includes the part of Shakespeare in an English series about the great wordsmith and a role on the sitcom Will & Grace.

He has appeared in other movies, such as Annie, It, and The Three Musketeers, recorded three albums, and has done an enormous amount of voice acting. Still, his one truly iconic performance was as the mega-strange Dr. Furter.