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Terence Stamp
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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).
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Superman
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The Limey
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Bowfinger
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The Company of Wolves
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
As Chancellor Valorum
The Adjustment Bureau
As Thompson
Last Night in Soho
As Silver-Haired Gentleman
Superman II
As General Zod
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KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Fractured Fables
From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.
8 films
When the Cartoon Fights Back: Slapstick Meets Liability
What happens when simulated harm, comic violence, or staged ordeals crash into real-world consequences? This collection explores the unsettling borderland where...
8 films
Pure-Hearted Heroes
Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...
7 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
The DVDs That Changed Everything
In the late 1990s, home video underwent a seismic shift driven by a double revolution: an unprecedented jump in technical quality, and an unprecedented access t...
10 films
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Last Night in Soho
2021 · Silver-Haired Gentleman
Murder Mystery
2019 · Malcolm Quince
Bitter Harvest
2017 · Ivan
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 · Abraham Portman
Big Eyes
2014 · John Canaday
The Art of the Steal
2013 · Samuel Winter
The Adjustment Bureau
2011 · Thompson
Yes Man
2008 · Terence
Get Smart
2008 · Siegfried
Dead Fish
2005 · Samuel Fish
Elektra
2005 · Stick
The Haunted Mansion
2003 · Ramsley
The Limey
1999 · Wilson
Bowfinger
1999 · Terry Stricter
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999 · Chancellor Valorum
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Bernadette Bassenger
Wall Street
1987 · Sir Larry Wildman
The Company of Wolves
1984 · The Devil (uncredited)
Superman II
1980 · General Zod
Superman
1978 · General Zod
A Season in Hell
1971 · Arthur Rimbaud
Spirits of the Dead
1968 · Toby Dammit (segment "Toby Dammit")
Modesty Blaise
1966 · Willie Garvin