Terence Stamp

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Terence Stamp (2009)
Terence Stamp (1973)
Terence Stamp with Monica Vitti in Modesty Blaise (1965)

Terence Stamp (* 22. July 1938 in London district of Stepney ) is a British actor .

Life

Stamp made his film debut in The Damned of the Seas (1962) by Peter Ustinov , a film adaptation of the novel Billy Budd by Herman Melville . For this role, Stamp was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Newcomer . For his starring role in the film The Catcher he was at the Film Festival in Cannes in 1965 as Best Actor award. In 1968 he impressed in Teorema - Geometry of Love by Pasolini as the beautiful bisexual guest. Stamp played Prosecutors You Don't Kiss (1986) alongside Robert Redford , Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah , and in the Oscar-winning Wall Street (1987) alongside Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen .

In 1994 he stood in front of the camera for the film Priscilla - Queen of the Desert alongside Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce . With the film The Limey by Steven Soderbergh (1999) Stamp achieved a great success. Stamp was nominated for Best Male Leading Role for the Independent Spirit Award 2000 and Best British Actor for the London Critics' Circle Film Award .

In the films Superman and Superman II he played the villain General Zod . In the Superman-based television series Smallville , he gave the character of Jor El his voice.

In the 1960s, Stamp dated model Jean Shrimpton and later actress Julie Christie . A 2002 marriage to Elizabeth O'Rourke was divorced in 2008.

Filmography (selection)

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personal data
SURNAME Stamp, Terence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH London