Terence Stamp Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Birth name Terence Henry Stamp
British nationality
Birth July 22, 1939 (London – England)

BIOGRAPHY
Coming from a family of five children (including Chris Stamp, who would later be the manager of the Who , a cult rock group), Terence Stamp was introduced to a taste for cinema very early: his first memory was indeed Beau geste with Gary Cooper , whom his mother took him to see when he was only three years old! After completing his studies, he began working in advertising agencies in London. His desire to make films was fulfilled in a curious way: discharged from military service due to foot problems, he decided to take advantage of this two-year period to try his luck in the industry. From his first film, Billy Budd by Peter Ustinov (1962), he established himself in the title role, and won the Golden Globe for best young actor, before winning the Best Actor Prize at the Cannes Film Festival three years later. with The Obsessed , by William Wyler .

Icon actor of the 60’s (he is credited in particular with connections with Julie Christie , Brigitte Bardot ) and he crossed paths with some of the most talented filmmakers of the time, such as Joseph Losey ( Modesty Blaise , 1966) or John Schlesinger ( Loin of the Madding Crowd , 1967). His international career led him to frequently tour under the direction of Italian directors, Federico Fellini among others, for one of the three Extraordinary Stories (Toby Dammit) by Edgar Allan Poe brought to the screen in 1968 -Terence Stamp will also play the American author in The Black-out . The same year, he found his most famous role by lending his features to the fascinating visitor in Theoreme , by Pier Paolo Pasolini .

During the following decade, the actor became rarer: he retired to India for ten years, very affected by his breakup with his partner Jean Shrimpton . Returning to business at the end of the 70s, he took on the costume of General Zod, villain of Superman I and II . Although he appeared in the cast of The Sicilian , Wall Street and The Hit , it was his role as a drag queen in Priscilla, crazy in the desert ( Stephan Elliott , 1994) which left his mark, and earned him multiple awards.

The actor found shortly after, with L’Anglais , that Steven Soderberghwrote for him, the -mature- small-scale character that he had played thirty years earlier in No Tears for Joy , by Ken Loach . Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Senate in Star Wars Episode 1 ( George Lucas , 1999), in 2001 he accomplished a sort of homecoming by playing in a French comedy (his mother was French): My wife is an actress by Yvan Attal . If he participates in the explosive Wanted: Choose Your Destiny (2008) or the comedy Max the Menace , we will find him in the much darker Valkyrie , the highly anticipated film by Bryan Singer .

The British has also played the role of Jor-El, father of Superman in the series Smallville , since season 2. He thus appears in a few episodes per season until the end of the show in season 10 in 2010. The year next, he distinguished himself as a senior civil servant giving Matt Damon a hard time in The Agency . After playing the lead role in Song for Marion , the actor then went on to play two Tim Burton feature films , Big Eyes and Miss Peregrine and Peculiar Children , in which he played Abe, the grandfather of the hero played by Asa Butterfield .

We will find Terence in 2017 in Crooked House in which he will star alongside Gillian Anderson , Glenn Close and Christina Hendricks . All under the direction of Frenchman Gilles Paquet-Brenner .