Question: Who played the clown in the orginal it?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: Who played the clown in the It (miniseries)?
Who played the clown in the It film series?
answer: Timothy James Curry
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Bill Skarsgård
Natural Questions answer: Timothy James Curry (from the Wikipedia article "Tim Curry")