“Billy Budd”, “Superman”, “Priscilla” was 87 years old

Terence Stamp, the surprisingly beautiful British actor who embodied the 60s and whose versatility shone Billy Budd,, Superman And The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desertdied on Sunday, said his family The New York Times. He was 87 years old.

They did not specify where he died nor the cause, said the newspaper.

Stamp won the Prix for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his terrifying performance as a psycho who holds a young woman (Samantha Eggar) hostage in William Wyler’s The collector (1965), then experienced an resurgence when he played General Kryptonian Megalomaniac Zod Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980).

Stamp had support roles in Legal eagles (1986) and Wall Street (1988), then received critical praise for having portrayed a veteran English crook in the police drama of Steven Soderbergh Lime (1999). Also that year, he won Star Wars Immortality by playing Chancellor Valorum The ghost threat.

In his youth, the stamp with blue eyes was widely considered one of the most beautiful men on the screen, and the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini used this for a particular effect in Theorem (1968), throwing the actor as a nameless visitor and without words who seduces an entire household. Pasolini made sure to include several close -ups of Stamp’s crotch in the film.

Like the cavalry sergeant Away from the crazy crowd (1967), he received an equal high level invoicing with Julie Christie despite the fact that Peter Finch and Alan Bates also played characters who romated his Bathsheba Coquette. “It was my mother’s favorite film,” he said one day. “She always thought that I looked better [in it] that I looked in something else.

The functionality includes a memorable swinging montage of Stamp, which was naturally left -handed, showing his sword to court Christie on a hill. Director John Schlesinger insisted that all the men of cavalry before 1860 were right -handed, and that Stamp therefore required.

Outside screen, he romanticized Christie, and he said that the two were named in Kinks’ successful song in 1967 “Waterloo Sunset” – “Terry meets Julie, Waterloo Station, every Friday evening” – although the group leader, Ray Davies, denied this in his autobiography.

Stamp dated the English model Jean Shrimpton, and at the end of this relationship, he started a trip around the world to give meaning to all this, stopping first in Egypt and ending in Bombay. It was there that he received a telegram addressed to “Clarence Stamp”, inviting him to meet Superman Director Richard donates to have a chance to play in front of Marlon Brando.

“Two actors in my generations were Brando and [James] Dean, “he told interviewer Michael Parkinson in 1988.” These are the two idols. Dean was no longer with us and Brando was still there, so the idea of getting up with him, although brief, was irresistible. »»

However, working alongside the double winner of the Oscars was disappointing, he said. Brando, playing Superman’s father, Jor-El, did not bother to learn his lines, having his dialogue write in a large police on posters placed behind the lighting. “How are you going to play King Lear and Macbeth if you can’t learn a line?” Tampon requested. “I have already learned them,” was the disdainful replica of Brando.

Stamp, then 24 years old, received an appointment from the Oscar support actor in 1963 for his debut on the screen as a angelic and optimistic team of HMS Avenger Billy Budd. His captain was played by Peter Ustinov, who made, co-written and produced the film.

Stamp’s confidence in the screen test was broken when he spied on Ustinov by looking at the roofs while he was waiting for him. “It was so powerful that everything I said seemed very thin. And I just stopped talking,” he said. Ustinov hired him, however, because Stamp had involuntarily reproduced the Billy Budd -free behavior.

“Is is Terence Stamp” shouts the trailer for the film, “the young actor greeted by the famous columnist Louella Parsons as the new discovery of the star of the screen.”

He received the most promising new (male) new Venu Prize at the Golden Globes, and the film was elected one of the 10 best of the year by the National Review Council.

During a career extending over six decades, perhaps his most difficult performance came after she was offered the role of Bernadette, a transgender woman who embarks on an Australian road trip with two drag queens, in The adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert (1994).

“I thought it was a joke, but a friend of mine was just present when I received calls from my agent about the script, and she pointed out to me in a very incisive way that my fear was out of proportion to the possible consequences,” he told British Film Institute.

“But it was not a fun thing, or all that I was looking forward to. It was:” Fuck me, it’s the last thing in the world I want to do: be a fucking Australia with paparazzi. “It was like a nightmare.

The film brought back more than $ 16 million at the Australian box office, screened in Cannes and won the Oscar for the best costume design.

“At the start of the film, we are distracted by the unexpected view of Terence Stamp in Drag,” wrote Roger Ebert, “but Stamp is able to bring convincing humanity to the character.”

Stamp was born on July 22, 1938 in Stepney, London, the eldest of five children. His father was a trample captain who was often absent for long sections.

He won a scholarship at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and then shared a house in London with Michael Caine while the two started their film career. When Stamp dropped the film, Alfie Despite the role of Broadway in 1964, Caine took over it. (British actor legends acted on stage Long and short and large Yet never appeared together in a film.)

Stamp’s spark to act began, he said, when he saw Beautiful gesture (1939) in a cinema.

“The empathy that I felt by Gary Cooper changed life, and a secret dream was born in the dark auditorium,” he wrote in his 2017 Memoirs, The ocean fell into drop.

His previous memories were from 1987 Tampon album1988 Upcoming attractions1989 Double characteristic and 2011 Rare stamps: reflections on life, breathing and game. He wrote the 1993 fictional novel THE Night And in 2001, co-written with Elizabeth Buxton, a healthy food manual for those who are wheat and lactose called The kitchen book of the stamp collection.

His other films included the espionage comedy Modesty Blaise (1966); Ken Loach’s beginnings in 1967, Poor cow; Frank Oz Bowfinger (1999); And Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie (2008). More recently, it appeared in Miss Peregrine’s house for private children (2016), Destiny Viking (2018), Mystery of murder (2019) and Edgar Wright Last night in Soho (2021).

For television, Stamp welcomed the first season of the Horror Anthology series Hungerreturned to the world of Superman by expressing Jor-el on Smallville And tried to resolve crime at the center of the Agatha Christie 2017 adaptation Twisted house.

The evening of the New Year in 2002, Stamp, then 64, married the 29 -year -old pharmacologist Elizabeth O’Rourke, whom he had met in Bondi, in Australia. They divorced in 2008.

His late brother, Chris Stamp, was co-management and WHO producer in the first days of the group.

In the DVD extras of Priscilla, queen of the desertTimbre – character like Bernadette – is asked: “Why is Terence Stamp so attractive?”

“Well, he has the three things that any woman would like,” he said. “He is funny, he is romantic and he has wisdom.”