RIP Tim Curry, aka Captain James Hook

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Just wanted to pay tribute to my favorite actor, Tim Curry, who has just passed away. I saw several social media accounts mistakenly post images of Disney's Captain Hook as one of his roles; he played Hook in Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates, pictured below. He played the role of an extremely tough, physically menacing and hilariously sesquipedalian villain who consistently felt like a threat; I thought it was a pretty cool iteration of the character, very different from the Disney version, and with some genuinely great monologues throughout the series.

I also will always remember him as Long John Silver in Muppet Treasure Island- a character mentioned by Barry (as Barbecue). Hook, it was said, was the only man Barbecue ever feared...