Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1938-07-22
Day of Death
2025-08-17
Place of Birth
Stepney, London, England, UK
Terence Stamp
Biography
Terence Henry Stamp (July 22, 1938 – August 17, 2025) was an English actor. After training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London he started his acting career in 1962. He has been referred to as the “master of the brooding silence” by The Guardian. His performance in the title role of Billy Budd, his film debut, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer. Associated with the Swinging London scene of the 1960s – during which time he was in high-profile relationships with actress Julie Christie and supermodel Jean Shrimpton – Stamp was among the subjects photographed by David Bailey for a set titled Box of Pin-Ups. Stamp played butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector (1965), and in 1967 appeared in Far from the Madding Crowd, starring opposite Christie. His other major roles include playing archvillain General Zod in Superman and Superman II, tough guy Wilson in The Limey, Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, transgender woman Bernadette Bassinger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Siegfried in Get Smart, Terrence Bundley in Yes Man, the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3, Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and General Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie. He has appeared in two Tim Burton films, Big Eyes (2014) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).
Filmography (97)
MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema
2023
Last Night in Soho
2021
Murder Mystery
2019
Viking Destiny
2018
Crooked House
2017
Bitter Harvest
2017
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
2017
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016
Crow
2016
1966: A Nation Remembers
2016
Between a Frock and a Hard Place
2015
Big Eyes
2014
Lambert & Stamp
2014
The Art of the Steal
2013
