Terence Henry Stamp was born on 22 July 1938 and is an English actor.
42 Facts About Terence Stamp
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Terence Stamp has received various accolades including a Golden Globe Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Silver Bear as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two BAFTA Awards.
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Terence Stamp was called the "master of the brooding silence" by The Guardian.
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Terence Stamp starred opposite Christie in Far from the Madding Crowd.
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Terence Stamp gained wider fame for his role as archvillain General Zod in Superman and Superman II.
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Terence Stamp then starred in The Limey earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
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Terence Stamp, the eldest of five children, was born on 22 July 1938 in Stepney, London, England, the son of Ethel Esther and Thomas Terence Stamp, who was a tugboat stoker.
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Terence Stamp's father was away for long periods with the Merchant Navy and the young Stamp was mostly brought up by his mother, grandmother, and aunts.
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Terence Stamp grew up idolising actor Gary Cooper after his mother took him to see Beau Geste when he was three years old.
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Terence Stamp was inspired by the 1950s method-trained actor James Dean.
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Terence Stamp describes this period of his life positively in his autobiography Stamp Album.
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Terence Stamp won a scholarship to train at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, then performed in various provincial repertory theatres, most notably in a national tour of Willis Hall's play The Long the Short and the Tall alongside another young cockney actor Michael Caine.
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Terence Stamp made his film debut in Peter Ustinov's film adaptation of Herman Melville's Billy Budd.
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Terence Stamp then appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial.
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Terence Stamp starred in William Wyler's adaptation of John Fowles' The Collector, opposite Samantha Eggar, and in Modesty Blaise, for director Joseph Losey and producer Joe Janni.
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Terence Stamp reunited with producer Janni for two more projects: John Schlesinger's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd starring Julie Christie, and Ken Loach's first feature film Poor Cow.
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Terence Stamp then travelled to Italy to star in Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit, a 50-minute portion of the Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation Histoires extraordinaires.
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Terence Stamp lived in Italy for several years, during which time his film work included Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema opposite Silvana Mangano, and A Season in Hell.
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Terence Stamp was considered for the title role of Alfie, but turned it down in favour of Modesty Blaise.
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Terence Stamp appeared in Link, Legal Eagles, The Sicilian, and a cameo as Sir Larry Wildman in Wall Street.
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Terence Stamp played the ranch owner, John Tunstall, in Young Guns.
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Terence Stamp began his fourth decade as an actor wearing some of the choicest of Tim Chappel's Academy Award-winning costumes for the comedy The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert which co-starred Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving.
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In 1999, Terence Stamp played a lead role in The Limey to widespread critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Terence Stamp appeared in Damian Pettigrew's award-winning documentary, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, offering ideas into the mind and working methods of Italian director Federico Fellini with whom Stamp had worked in the 1960s.
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Terence Stamp portrayed the Kryptonian supervillain General Zod in Richard Donner's Superman, in which he appeared in a scene with Marlon Brando.
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Terence Stamp reappeared as General Zod in the second part, Superman II, as the film's primary villain.
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Terence Stamp provided the scream of Zod in the sixth-season premiere episode "Zod".
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In recent years, Terence Stamp has appeared in the films Ma femme est une actrice, My Boss's Daughter, Disney's The Haunted Mansion, and the superhero fantasy Elektra.
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In 2014, Terence Stamp appeared in Tim Burton's drama film Big Eyes, with Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz.
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In 2016, Terence Stamp appeared in another Tim Burton film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, where played Abe, the grandfather of the film's protagonist Jake.
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Terence Stamp appears in George Mendeluk's Bitter Harvest, opposite Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, and Aneurin Barnard.
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Terence Stamp has published three volumes of his memoirs including Stamp Album, a novel entitled The Night, and a cookbook co-written with Elizabeth Buxton to provide alternative recipes for those who are wheat- and lactose-intolerant.
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In 2005, Terence Stamp narrated the BBC Four documentary Jazz Britannia, which chronicles the evolution of British jazz music.
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Terence Stamp read the book Perfect Brilliant Stillness by David Carse for SilkSoundBooks.
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Terence Stamp appeared in the music video for "At the Bottom of Everything" by Bright Eyes.
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Terence Stamp appeared as the featured 'castaway' on BBC Radio's long-running Desert Island Discs in June 1987, and made a second appearance in March 2006 with a different selection of music.
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In 2002 Terence Stamp provided the narration for History of Football: The Beautiful Game, a series on all aspects of the world's most popular sport.
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On 7 July 2007, Terence Stamp gave a speech on climate change at the British leg of Live Earth in Wembley Stadium before introducing Madonna.
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Terence Stamp narrated the BBC's The Story of Only Fools and Horses in 2017.
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Terence Stamp received extensive media coverage of his romances in the 1960s with film star Julie Christie and supermodel Jean Shrimpton.
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Originally, Terence Stamp refused permission for the still to be used, and some pressings featured lead singer Morrissey in a re-enacted scene.
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On New Year's Eve 2002, Terence Stamp married at the age of 64.