Curry's entertainment career began when he was seven, when he auditioned for Jess Yates, the executive producer of Yorkshire Television's Junior Showtime.
[citation needed] In the late 1970s, Curry co-presented a Saturday morning TV show, Calendar Kids, with Kathryn Apanowicz, which was only shown in the Yorkshire Television region.
Curry's co-hosts during his time with the programme were Janet Ellis, Peter Duncan, Caron Keating, Yvette Fielding and John Leslie.
Curry spent three weeks in Malawi witnessing distressing scenes of people from surrounding villages suffering with blindness and chronic eye problems.
[citation needed] He travelled across the Soviet Union for the programme's 1987 summer expedition, and was known for his history features on the show, his cooking disasters and his performing.
[citation needed] During the 1980s, the team of Curry, Keating and Fielding was popular with viewers, and they worked together on the programme's Christmas song and dance specials.
Curry made a guest appearance in an episode of Last of the Summer Wine, entitled "Will The Nearest Alien Please Come In", broadcast in August 2007, playing a character trying to get in touch with extra terrestrials.
[citation needed] Victoria Wood cast Curry as The Compere in a 2009 revival of her play Talent, which she also directed at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London.
[citation needed] Curry played the role of Larry in Sondheim's Company and Andre Cassell in Victor/Victoria, at the London fringe venue Southwark Playhouse in 2011 and 2012.
He has also appeared as a guest on a celebrity edition of Antiques Roadshow, and won the BBC Children In Need Strictly Come Dancing special.
From May to August 2014, Curry played Siegfried Farnon in the stage adaptation and UK tour of All Creatures Great and Small.