Oscar-nominated, character actor extraordinary and one of the most multifaceted actors of his generation, the British star Terence Stamp Died on Sunday at the age of 87. The news was reported first by The New York Timeswho shared that the actor’s family had “confirmed his death but not specified where he died or the cause.”
Born on July 22, 1938 in London, one of five children in Thomas Stamp and Ethel (Perrott) Stamp, the idea of growing up to become a movie star could not have been further from Stampen’s mind or early experience. Originally, the young stamp worked in advertising, but he had long included dreams of acting and trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
His first major role in “Billy Budd” got him his first and only Oscar nomination, but it also put his career. Early success, including praise for his pervasive blue eyes and iconic voice, noted him to work with all From Federico Fellini To Marlon Brando, but his career apparently fell as he approached the thirties.
His casting as General Zod in the first two “Superman” films in the 70s has long been regarded as his big comeback, but in the following decades he continued to make convincing, often off-beat choice. They included the lead role in “The Adventures of Priscilla, the Queen of the desert” as a transgender with unexpected tenderness and brought their unique zeal to Steven Soderbergh’s “The Limey.” Always wonderful, always unpredictable.
2013, The actor reflected on the ups and downs of his career with IndieWire. Then he returned to the big screen with a lead role in “unfinished song.” “I’ve just got used to doing roles that are tough guys, and it hasn’t really made any difference in my life,” he said. “I guess in the big track in things I was without work during most of the 70s and I just traveled. I came to the point where I just thought I would never get the call. But I did.”
Stamp looked back at career and life-changing conversations behind their work in the “Superman” films and told IndieWire, “I remembered to make the first two” Superman “films, that I think I am the very best of all the comic book films. But during that of the absence, I guess I have come, I was emotional.
He continued, “Originally I never really realized why I couldn’t get a leading part after ’69. My own understanding of it was that I was so identified with the 60s period, that when it ended, the word on the street was:” Well, we are looking for a young tear’s stamp, “and I was in my thirties. The basic change was I really. me.
He was nominated for two BAftas, two Golden Globes, and won Cannes Best Actress Prize in 1965 for his work in William Wyler “The Collector.” He last appeared on the screen in 2021, care of a small but remarkable role in Edgar Wright’s “Last night in Soho.”
Nyt notes that during “2002 at the age of 64 he married Elizabeth O’Rourke, a 29-year-old Australian pharmacist; they divorced in 2008.” NEW reported that “Information about survivors was not directly available.”
