Terrance Stamp, best known for his portrayal of General Zod in the âSupermanâ films, has passed away at the age of 87.
His family released a statement to Reuters, confirming the unfortunate news, saying Stamp passed away on Sunday morning.
“He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come,” the family said. “We ask for privacy at this sad time.”
No information about where he died or his cause of death have been made public at this time.
Terence Stamp Opened Up About His Career in a 2013 Interview with BFI
Stamp was born in East London, with his father being a merchant seaman. And when he decided to pursue a career in acting, it was not something that his father was in favor of.
It was so private for me. I never spoke about it at all,” Stamp said in a 2013 interview with BFI when asked about his parents’ thoughts on his acting ambitions. “It wasnât until we got our first TV â I wouldâve been about 17 I think, and I was already at work â that I started saying things like, ‘Oh, I could do that.’ My dad just turned me off it.”
“He was probably trying to save me a lot of aggro. He genuinely believed that people like us didnât do things like that,” Stamp continued. “He was a stoker, for Christâs sake. But it didnât deter me. I continued not talking about it, but that made my determination stronger in a funny way.”
And when he finally found fame, his mother was all for it while his dad still wasn’t sure.
“Of course my mother loved every second of it. In retrospect, my mother must have always wanted me to do it and must have wished that she could have been more supportive,” he explained. “But my dad was the head of the family and I never really knew what he thought of it because he was of that generation. He was a merchant seaman, he shovelled coal, and in that confined living quarters any show of emotion would have been considered unbearably flash. By the time the war finished, he was really emotionally closed down.
“He never congratulated me. He must have been enormously proud, but he never communicated that with anybody.”
What Films Was Terence Stamp Proudest of?
During the 2013 interview with BFI, the final question Stamp was asked was what films he was most proud of, and he revealed five of them.
“The Limey, Priscilla, The Collector (1965), Billy Budd and the Fellini,” he said.
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