Tim Curry, a character actor who created a gallery of delicious, very loony villains for stage and screen, including Dr. Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died. He was 80.
Curry, who suffered a stroke in 2012 that put him in a wheelchair, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, according to his longtime manager and friend, Marcia Hurwitz. No cause was disclosed.
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FILE - Tim Curry participates in the panel for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" during the Fox Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2016, (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Tim Curry, center, appears with cast members from nominated Broadway productions at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
FILE - Tim Curry attends the Museum of the Moving Image salute to Alec Baldwin in New York on Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
FILE - Tim Curry performs a number from the musical "Spamalot" during the Broadway premiere on March 17, 2005, in New York, (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)
Known for his arch humor, a putty-like face and gift with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations — for “Spamalot,” “My Favorite Year” and “Amadeus” — and an Emmy nod in 1994.
“I like playing the more curious corners of the human mind and human behavior, partly because they’re a tad more interesting,” Curry told The Associated Press in 1993.
FILE - Tim Curry participates in the panel for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" during the Fox Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2016, (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Tim Curry, center, appears with cast members from nominated Broadway productions at the 2005 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York on June 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
FILE - Tim Curry attends the Museum of the Moving Image salute to Alec Baldwin in New York on Feb. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File)
FILE - Tim Curry performs a number from the musical "Spamalot" during the Broadway premiere on March 17, 2005, in New York, (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)
OSLO, Norway (AP) — A pro-Russian hacker group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a cyberattack that has affected multiple Norwegian government digital services over the past three days.
The cyberattack has been ongoing since Monday, said Are Kvistad, a spokesperson for the Norwegian Digitalization Agency (Digdir), the state body in charge of making Norway's public services more digital and user-friendly, told The Associated Press.
“It's the biggest attack against Digdir solutions that we have ever experienced,” Kvistad said.
The denial-of-service attacks meant that hackers pushed massive traffic toward the agency in order to block services, including one that enables citizens to use one login across multiple public services.
However, the Digdir spokesman said that the agency managed to keep the services running “practically all the time.”
In a Telegram post on Wednesday widely reported by Norwegian media, the pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers claimed responsibility for the attack and said it had declared cyber war on Norway after the country renewed its security cooperation with Ukraine on Aug. 23.
On Sunday, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced during a visit to Kyiv that Norway would provide 85 billion Norwegian crowns (9.2 billion US dollars) to Ukraine from next year’s state budget for a third year in a row.
The two countries also committed to further cooperation when it comes to drone technology and other forms of modern warfare.
Norwegian officials did not comment on the hackers' claim by publication time.
All countries in Europe are on high alert with Russia stepping up its sabotage and malign activity across the continent since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Officials say the attacks are intended to undermine support for Ukraine, spread fear and discord in European societies and drain investigative resources.
In 2025, Norwegian authorities said Russian hackers were likely behind suspected sabotage at a dam in the country. During that incident, hackers gained access to a digital system which remotely controls one of the dam’s valves and opened it to increase the water flow. A three-minute long video showing the dam’s control panel and a mark identifying a pro-Russian cybercriminal group was published on Telegram at the time, the police said.
Last year, Danish authorities blamed Russia for carrying out cyberattacks against infrastructure and websites in Denmark in 2024 and 2025. Danish officials said pro-Russian group Z-Pentest carried out a “destructive attack” on the water utility company in 2024 and that a separate group, NoName057(16), was responsible for a cyberattack on Danish websites ahead of the 2025 local elections. Voth have links to the Russian state, they said.
According to Norwegian media, Server Killers were linked directly or indirectly to previous cyberattacks in Norway and other European countries.
FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy greets Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere ahead of the flag-raising ceremony to mark the National Flag Day in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Aug. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
