Terence Stamp
Born: 1938-07-22 in Stepney, London, England, UK
Died: 2025-08-17
Known For: Acting
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
2021
- Last Night in Soho as Silver-Haired Gentleman
2019
- His Dark Materials as Giacomo Paradisi
- Murder Mystery as Malcolm Quince
2018
- Viking Destiny as Odin
2017
- Bitter Harvest as Ivan
- Crooked House as Chief Inspector Taverner
- Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
2016
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children as Abraham Portman
- Crow as Great Crow
- 1966: A Nation Remembers as Himself - Narrator (voice)
2015
- Between a Frock and a Hard Place as Self - Narrator
2014
- Big Eyes as John Canaday
- Lambert & Stamp as Himself
2013
- The Art of the Steal as Samuel Winter
2012
- Song for Marion as Arthur
2011
- The Adjustment Bureau as Thompson
2010
- Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie as Severus (voice)
- Norman Wisdom: His Story as Himself : Narrator
2008
- Wanted as Pekwarsky
- Yes Man as Terence
- Valkyrie as Ludwig Beck
- Get Smart as Siegfried
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self (archive footage)
2007
- September Dawn as Brigham Young
2006
- Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut as General Zod
- These Foolish Things as Baker
- The Making of Oblivion as Self
- 9/11: The Twin Towers as Narrator(voice)
- You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman as Self
2005
- Elektra as Stick
- Separate Lies as Joe (uncredited)
- Dead Fish as Samuel Fish
2003
- The Haunted Mansion as Ramsley
- The Kiss as Philip Naudet
- My Boss's Daughter as Jack Taylor
- Fellini: I'm a Born Liar as Self - Toby Dammit
2002
- V Graham Norton as Self
- Full Frontal as Man on Plane / Self
- Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up as Self
- History of Football: The Beautiful Game as Narrator
2001
- Smallville as Jor-El (voice)
- Revelation as Magnus Martel
- My Wife Is an Actress as John
2000
- Static Shock as Dennis / Professor Menace (voice)
- Red Planet as Dr. Bud Chantilas
1999
- Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Chancellor Valorum
- Bowfinger as Terry Stricter
- The Limey as Wilson
1998
- Kiss the Sky as Kozen
- Nureyev Unzipped as Narrator
1997
- The Hunger as The Host
- Bliss as Baltazar
- Scene by Scene as Self
- Love Walked In as Fred Moore
- Limited Edition as Edward Lamb
1996
- Mindbender as Joe Hartman
1994
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert as Bernadette Bassenger
- Ladies Please! as Self
1993
- The Real McCoy as Jack Schmidt
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties as Self
1991
- Prince of Shadows as Darman
1990
- Genuine Risk as Paul Hellwart
1988
- Young Guns as John Tunstall
- Alien Nation as William Harcourt
1987
- Wall Street as Sir Larry Wildman
- The Sicilian as Prince Borsa
1986
- Legal Eagles as Victor Taft
- Vilde, the Wild One as Edward
- Link as Dr Steven Phillip
- The Cold War Killers as David Audley
- The Alamut Ambush as David Audley
- The Deadly Recruits as David Audley
- Directed by William Wyler as Self
1984
- The Hit as Willie Parker
- The Company of Wolves as The Devil (uncredited)
1983
- The Bloody Chamber
- The Making of 'Superman II' as Self
- Fellini nel cestino as Self
- Chessgame as David Audley
1982
- The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' as Self
- Death in the Vatican as Padre Andreani, poi Papa Giovanni Clemente I
1981
- Mystery on Monster Island as Taskinar / Skinner
1980
- Superman II as General Zod
1979
- Meetings with Remarkable Men as Prince Lubovedsky
- Together? as Henry
- Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
1978
- Superman as General Zod
- The Thief of Baghdad as Wazir Jaudur
1976
- Striptease as Alain
1975
- The Divine Nymph as Dany di Bagnasco
- Hu-Man as Terence
1973
- Fade In as Himself
1971
- A Season in Hell as Arthur Rimbaud
1970
- The Mind of Mr. Soames as John Soames
1968
- Spirits of the Dead as Toby Dammit (segment "Toby Dammit")
- Blue as Blue
- Theorem as The Visitor
- Toby Dammit as Toby Dammit
1967
- Far from the Madding Crowd as Sgt. Francis "Frank" Troy
- Poor Cow as Dave Fuller
- Location: Far from the Madding Crowd as Himself
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
1966
- Modesty Blaise as Willie Garvin
1965
- The Collector as Freddie Clegg
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Billy Budd as Billy Budd
- Term of Trial as Mitchell