Entertainment Community Fund
The Entertainment Community Fund, formerly The Actors Fund, is a national human services organization that addresses the unique needs of people who work in performing arts and entertainment with services focused on health and wellness, career and life, and housing. Since 1882, the Fund has sought to ensure stability, encourage resiliency and be a safety net for those who shape our country’s cultural vibrancy. Learn more at entertainmentcommunity.org.www.entertainmentcommunity.org
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Sep 7, 2026
BethHOST
Yeah.
BethHOST
He was a longtime supporter of the Actors Fund, performing at multiple benefits for the organization, which in 2015 gave him its Artistic Achievement Award.
BethHOST
And while he never married and had no children, he was famously private and warm with close friends.
BethHOST
Eric Idle's tribute called him a fine man, singer, host, actor, and gardener.
Mark ShunockGUEST
Can't talk about it too much right now, but we really want to focus on the space transitioning from its popularity of being an event concert party place to a place where our community can go and get help.
Mark ShunockGUEST
So we have some providers, Community Counseling Centers of Southern Nevada, the Entertainment Community Fund, Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance.
Mark ShunockGUEST
These are all now official partners of ours that are going to provide services so that if you work in entertainment, hospitality, or first responder, a block off the strip is this goofy spot where you can go and get help.
Paki PhillipsHOST
That's fantastic.
Selena OteroHOST
It's really weird.
Selena OteroHOST
I saw a picture of them together and I said, huh? What? He was a lifelong supporter of the Entertainment Community Fund, or it was formerly known as the Actors Fund.
Selena OteroHOST
He advocated for the organization...
Selena OteroHOST
Making sure to highlight that it is designed to rescue us when we're old and faint is what he said.
Brad MielkeHOST
He lost control of the instrument that had served him so well.
Brad MielkeHOST
But three years later, he returned to the public eye to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Actors Fund, a group that helps put fellow entertainers back on their feet.
Brad MielkeHOST
The world is a little less playful today, a little less impish.
Brad MielkeHOST
Many of us wonder what we would accomplish with more years, but Tim Curry wouldn't have that problem.
Scott JohnsonHOST
Unquote.
Scott JohnsonHOST
Forty years later, when he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Actors Fund, Los Angeles Magazine asked him to reflect on that career-making part.
Scott JohnsonHOST
How did he look at it in retrospect? With a sort of bemused tolerance, he said, It's neither a blessing nor a curse.
Scott JohnsonHOST
I was lucky to get it.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
He lost control of the instrument that had served him so well.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
But three years later, he returned to the public eye to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Actors Fund, a group that helps put fellow entertainers back on their feet.
speaker_15CORRESPONDENT
You know,
Mike RogersHOST
I'd forgotten about him as Pennywise.
Mike RogersHOST
He lost control of the instrument that had served him so well.
Mike RogersHOST
But three years later, he returned to the public eye to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Actors Fund, a group that helps put fellow entertainers back on their feet.
Mike RogersHOST
You know, I'd forgotten about him in, uh, as Pennywise.
Mike RogersHOST
[laughs]
speaker_5HOST
He attended the 50th anniversary screening of Rocky Horror in September 2025, where he spoke very candidly to the audience about his mobility issues.
speaker_3HOST
In 2015, the Actors Fund gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award, and he credited his survival and his recovery entirely to a sense of humor.
speaker_5HOST
Yeah.
speaker_3HOST
He refused to let the stroke defeat his spirit.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
She was always a good interview.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
She was a lively presence at charitable and social events through SAG and the Actors Fund.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
I had the pleasure of moderating a Donna Reed Show reunion with at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles in 2011.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
That sitcom ran from 1958 to 1966.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
She was always a good interview.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
She was a lively presence at charitable and social events through SAG and the Actors Fund.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
I had the pleasure of moderating a Donna Reed Show reunion with at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles in 2011.
Cynthia LittletonHOST
That sitcom ran from 1958 to 1966.
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