Celebrating Tim Curry’s Career in Camp, From ‘Rocky Horror’ to ‘It’

As a screen presence, meanwhile, Curry landed so fully formed in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” that it’s easy to forget it was his film debut — among the most declarative in cinema history, surely, but also near-impossible to follow up. Curry must have known that: In the years after that astonishing breakout, he was wise to remain active in theater and television, rather than putting all his chips on a movie career. A couple of supporting roles came and went before his next film splash, as the sociopathic sleazabag Rooster in John Huston’s megabudget musical “Annie”; the film was a bloated disappointment, but his nasty, vinegary chemistry with Carol Burnett’s Miss Hannigan was a highlight.