Tim Curry's Best Horror TV Role Arrived 3 Years After Pennywise

Tim Curry’s most famous horror TV role is Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries It—but his standout horror performance actually came three years later. In Tales from the Crypt, which aired on HBO from 1989 to 1996, Curry guest-starred in season 5’s October 1993 episode “Death of Some Salesmen,” directed by Gilbert Adler. He played Ma, Pa, and Winona Brackett, a farm family that puts a dishonest salesman (Ed Begley Jr.’s Judd Campbell) through a deadly nightmare after he steals by selling expensive burial plots in a fake cemetery. Curry’s range in one episode made his characters hard to distinguish despite prosthetics.