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Newly released 911 dispatch audio has revealed the emergency response at Tim Curry’s Hollywood home on the night of his death.
The legendary actor, best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, died on Tuesday (August 26) evening.
His manager confirmed Curry’s death on Wednesday, while law enforcement sources told TMZ that no foul play is suspected.
Audio reviewed by the Daily Mail has now disclosed details of the response shortly before the 80-year-old was pronounced dead.
In the dispatch audio, Curry’s address was reportedly repeated several times, with the incident described as an "ambulance death investigation".
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to the outlet that "a death investigation report was completed".
Los Angeles fire officials also confirmed that emergency crews responded to a medical call at around 11:23PM at an address believed to be Curry’s.
First responders found a male patient at the property who was declared deceased at the scene.
Fire officials do not release the names of patients, but confirmed that crews responded to the same address as Curry’s.
A cause of death has not yet been determined.
The Home Alone 2 actor had faced health complications for more than a decade after suffering a massive stroke in 2012, when he was 66. The stroke required brain surgery and left him unable to walk
Last year, Curry opened up about the lasting effects of his stroke during a special screening celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at LA’s Academy Museum.
"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 had remained out of the public eye following the stroke, but later shared that the medical emergency began while he was receiving a massage at his Los Angeles home.
He unknowingly suffered two brain bleeds while on the massage table and said he had not noticed any symptoms himself.
"It was so strange," the actor 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," he said. "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."
After doctors told him he had suffered a stroke, Curry said he "thought immediately" about his father, James, who had survived a stroke when Curry 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 underwent brain surgery and remained in hospital for "about a month" while undergoing rehabilitation.
He also had to relearn 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."
The late actor built an impressive career across film, television, theater, and voice acting.
Among his most recognizable roles was the terrifying clown Pennywise in the 1990 adaptation of Stephen King’s It. He also played Mr. Hector in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Curry earned three Tony Award nominations during his Broadway career and appeared in stage productions including Amadeus and Spamalot.
His distinctive voice also featured in dozens of animated projects, audiobooks, and video games.
Curry’s final TV role came in 2010, when he appeared as criminal Billy Flynn in two episodes of Criminal Minds.
The actor never married and did not have any children.
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