Terence Stamp, '60s icon and Superman villain General Zod, dies
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'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,' media quoted the family saying.
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Stamp exploded on to the screen in the 1960s as a leading man, even then sometimes playing troubled characters. At one point, he seemed to specialize in playing brooding villains
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From Pier Paolo Pasolini's Theorem to a villain's role in one of the Star Wars films, the handsome leading man captivated audiences in both art house films and Hollywood blockbusters.
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He lent his magnetic presence to more than 60 films during a career that spanned a range of genres.
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The London actor from a working-class background, born on July 22, 1938, had his first breakthrough in in Peter Ustinov's Billy Budd. His performance as a dashing young sailor hanged for killing one of his crewmates, earned him an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe for Best New Actor.
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Carving out a niche for his alluring depictions of broody villains, he won Best Actor at Cannes in 1965 for The Collector, a twisted love story adapted by William Wyler from John Fowles's bestselling novel.
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His 1967 encounter with Federico Fellini was transformative. The Italian director was searching for the 'most decadent English actor' for his segment in an adaptation of Spirits of the Dead, a collection of Edgar Allen Poe stories.
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Fellini cast him as Toby Dammit, a drunken actor seduced by the devil in the guise of a little girl.
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Another Italian great, Pasolini, who cast him in the cult classic Theorem, saw him as a 'boy of divine nature.' In the 1969 film, Stamp played an enigmatic visitor who seduced an entire bourgeois Milanese family.
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He also had a relationship with Jean Shrimpton — a model and beauty of the sixties — before she left him towards the end of the decade.
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