Terence Stamp

Terence Stamp's Desert Island Discs

Stamp's best performance was as Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

I liked him The Haunted Mansion

As a young gayling, he was one of my first crushes. He looked so sexy in Superman 2.

As a dissolute actor in Fellini's segment of Spirits of the Dead (1969)

I really loved him in short Federico Fellini film, about English actor in Italy. I think it was called "Toby Dammit". Terrific movie.

[italic]The Hit[/italic] was his return film. It's pretty good, with John Hurt and Tim Roth. I had fallen in love him in [italic]Far from the Madding Crowd[/italic]. [italic]Legal Eagles[/italic] should be avoided.

I liked him in Wall Street

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Great in everything but Priscilla took him to a whole other level. His performance makes the movie special. Would he be cast if the movie was in production today (and if he was the right age). Sadly, probably not. Trans groups would protest.

R10 Terence is a great actor who could pull off anything

R10, yawn, people still make movies about drag queens and cast straight (or "straight) actors on them. You're just looking for any excuse to bash trans people

Make him a star! Shirtless, and beatific, in Billy Budd ❤️

I thought his comment about seeing Jean Shrimpton on the street years after their break up was very unkind.

The movie where he seduces a whole family was pretty interesting. Mmmmmh massimo girotti.

Gorgeous when young in the 1960s but already kinda dessicated by the 1980s.

He sounds like he got a bit lost after the 60s- although I guess he calls it “finding himself”. Of course it involves india and gurus and meditating and the usual 60s/70s hippie stuff.

Loved him in Far From the Madding Crowd.

Both he and James fox just seemed to disappear by the end of the 60s

Terry and Julie... Waterloo Station...

Stamp and James Fox were to the 1960s what James Purefoy and Jeremy Northam were to the 1990s, r19.

Stamp and James Fox were to the 1960s what James Purefoy and Jeremy Northam were to the 1990s, r19.

R19 James Fox found God and focused on his family. Fox has family money. But you are right, there are a few actors that did not really last past 1969: Stamp, Fox, Jeremy Brett, Alan Bates,

Purefoy and Northam were also rans.

What James Wilby was in the 1980's

[quote] Both he and James fox just seemed to disappear by the end of the 60s

Prunella Ransome, who played Fannie in Far From the Madding Crowd also seemed to have disappeared. She was one of those “soon to be a major star of motion pictures” type who fizzled. She earned a Golden Globe nomination for FftMC but her subsequent films bombed and she did an occasional tv episode until her career expired. She died in 2004 at age 59.

Life is random. She had what seemed to be everything needed to be a star - good looks, good acting skills, a role in a film that starred 3 of England’s hottest young actors at the time (Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Alan Bates). But the British historical epic film was on it’s way out. Madding wasn’t a big hit in theaters.

Her next film, Alfred the Great, was a flop despite starring two of Britain’s popular young actors of the time David Hemmings and Michael York.

You never know if you’re going to be a Julie Christie or a Prunella Ransome

Or if you’re going to be a Sean Connery or a David Hemmings.

You never know if you’re going to be a Lion in the Winter or an Alfred the Great.

A Dr Zhivago or an Antony and Cleopatra

A Bridge Over the River Kwai or A Bridge Too Far

Wasn't Jennie Linden told that Kate Hepburn vetoed her casting in The Lion In Winter? TPTB can really scupper a career.

R23, Brett went on to huge success as Sherlock Holmes. Alan Bates kept working until he died

I saw him on TV when I was a kid in "The Mind of Mr. Soames." Have been in love ever since; some great lines in it.

One of my all-time favorites (and yes, I loved Alan Bates, Jeremy Brett, etc.). I wish I could see more of him.

R27 A Bridge Too Far was a great movie!

R14, I'll bite, what did he say?

I saw the Mind of Mr Soames on very late night tv once. It was freaky. One of those little, inexpensive films they used to make in the late 60s/early1970s that would pop up on the late movie and make you go, “Hunh?” Films like The Twisted Nerve and 10 Rillington Place (though that film was later revisited by critics and declared better than it actually was because of John Hurtks performance)

He's fun in Modesty Blaze with Dirk Bogarde and Monica Viti.

Isn't he gay?

He had a flat in The Albany. He brought in girlfriends and some boyfriends via the Vigo Street entrance.

I always thought he looked like Udo Kier

[Quote] when Terence Stamp saw her on the street in London over twenty years later he passed by without saying hello "because she looked so awful and she used to be so lovely."

This looks to be Jean in the 1990s.

Pasolini's Teorema (1968) Is he God or the devil? He mounts the members of a Milanese family and when he leaves, they are in disarray. Brief full frontal of Stamp when he gets out his bed.

He never looked good as a blond.

Young Terrence.

William Wyler's The Collector put him on the map. Excellent psychological suspense.

John Fowles' tour de force novel The Collector has been turned with considerably more force in the film version directed by William Wyler. Wyler has directed with such skillful concentration on the interplay that we're never conscious that the film is sustained by two actors. Wyler takes every moment for what it is as it comes along and makes the most of it. It is only retrospectively that we see it is a bravura accomplishment

Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic (June 19, 1965)

He is vers, I think.

He was a good villain in Superman II

I always wondered if he was gay. Jean Shrimpton said something like "I loved him but I don't think he loved me"

Eggar wasn't up to much, was she.

R43 Billy Budd & an Oscar nomination came before that film.

[quote] One of the young good looking British actors of the 1960's

I can't agree.

Everyone looks attractive when they're young but Stamp had big cheekbones and big eyes like that Extra Terrestrial.

The OP's pictures shows his freaky resemblance to his freaky German counterpart.

I think he’s fab!

I sucked his cock and swallowed. It was good.

Doppelgängers

OMG. R37 and R50 think alike!

r10 feminists still protest the film

He was in that Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston movie!

I tend to get him mixed up with Malcolm MacDowell. 🤷‍♂️

I'd have knelt before Zod any day of the week.

Udo Kier was not beautiful

Terence Stamp was not beautiful.

There are scenes in Billy Budd were he looks pretty and elfin-like with the wind blowing in a certain direction.

But when the wind changes he has an ugly Elvis Presley Rocker-Mod hairstyle which is very unflattering for his bony, ill-proportioned face.

Stamp and Eggar won Best Actor/Actress at Cannes for The Collector

He had what was a called a heart-shaped face. Not great for a man as he ages.

[quote] I'd have knelt before Zod any day of the week.

He looked particularly weird in that.

But he wanted to spend time in the presence of the failed-god Marlon Brando. Unfortunately, Brando was certifiably insane at that time.

R60

He was beatific, not beautiful (a liiterary Christ figure in Melville’s novella)…he fit the bill.

He may have been beatific but he had the body of a lizard.

[quote] I thought his comment about seeing Jean Shrimpton on the street years after their break up was very unkind.

What did he say?

He told an Italian interviewer that—

[quote]1968 was a very crucial moment in my life. I’d had this very high-profile love affair with what turned out to be the world’s first supermodel, and it had ended badly. So I was not in particularly good shape emotionally. And then I got this call from Fellini, or Fellini’s casting director. What had happened was that he’d written a part of an Edgar Allan Poe story for Peter O’Toole and Peter O’Toole let him down at the last moment. So Fellini called a casting director here in London and said, ‘Send me your most decadent actors’. And James Fox and I went. I had just finished a Western in Utah, where my hair had been dyed blonde and the roots were growing out. And I was like a flower child, I’d discovered grass and I was wearing flowers and ankhs and stuff. I went to Rome and Fellini took one look at me and it was love. It was mutual.

Are you a lesbian, R26? So many tears for a woman who would never succeed in the business.

That misguided film already had 4 big stars so no one paid attention to the unknown woman with the unappealing name in a supporting role.

He is a thespian

Has he paid his ad valorem taxes on time?

R67 somewhat true that her part although pivotal for the story wasn’t all that memorable really. I mean maybe she had scenes that were cut but her screen time wasn’t up to much. I think in the Carey mulligan remake the part is even smaller and played by Juno temple. Prunella did seem to be of the moment though with her looks, she seemed to go more the way of Carol White though rather than Julie Christie so I see what r26 was saying. I looked her up and couldn’t find much info about her at all. I wonder what she was offered and turned down to disappear into obscurity so fast.

Incidentally Carol White who seemed to self destruct was once singled out by Stamp as a better actress than Christie.

WHET Samantha Eggar, what does an actress who has a few hits in the 60s and 70s do for the rest of their life when they seem to stop making lucrative films and tv relatively young. Do they marry into money, do they get a regular job or did they invest well and never have to work again? I’m always curious. There’s so many who just seem to get filtered out of Hollywood early.

She didn't go the way of Carol White, who tried to make it in Hollywood. Prunella became a mother and occasionally made some screen appearances up until the 1990s.

Didn't Eggar move into horror movies? Or was that Gayle Hunnicutt?

No one could take the name "Prunella" seriously in the sexy, druggie 1960s.

Where in that paragraph at R66 is a remark about Jean Shrimpton??

We've had two threads on Eggar. One below.

She retreated into the Catholic religion in Canada.

R74 "the world’s first supermodel"

R72 incidentally there was some gossip that Hunnicutt once publicly confronted Eggar about an alleged affair she (Eggar) was having with David Hemings during the filming of “the walking stick”.

On one website it also said DL fave Joanna Pettet allegedly followed her husband, at the time, to Rome because of rumours that he was having an onset romance with Eggar.

I think I also saw an interview with Eggar where she implied that gossip columnists had written that liz taylor was jealous of her when it was announced she’d be co-starring with Richard Burton in Goodbye Mr Chips.

Seems someone was out to sully her reputation during her peak. Sounds like she was the Angelina Jolie of her era.

On another note in the infamous Roddy McDowall Malibu home movies, Eggar appears pregnant in one of the videos and really looks stunning.

Carol White with Stamp in Ken Loach's Poor Cow (1967)

Carol White's comes to America in Mark Robson's Daddy's Gone-A-Hunting (1969)

R78 I saw that film. really the epitome of British kitchen sink.

I found The Collector boring. Couldn’t sit through it, even though I had a mad crush on Stamp.

David Hemmings — that was an ugly man. I had no idea he was a boy soprano. He had a supposedly platonic relationship with Benjamin Britten for 4 years until Hemming’s voice broke while singing an aria in Turn of the Screw. “Britten was furious, waved Hemmings away, and never had any further contact with him.[4]”

What do you mean "supposedly" platonic relationship?

A baseless allegation is worthless gossip.

Wow I didn’t know Poor Cow was color. I must’ve watched it on black and white tv

I remember thinking it was going to be so much better than it was. All the raves about Ken Loach’s slice of life kitchen sink dramas. I guess you had to be there. Even the height-of-gorgeousness of Terence Stamp couldn’t keep me finishing the film.

Ken Loach + kitchen sink = A very dreary time indeed.

Ken Loach's best film is Kes (1969). 🦅

Looked up Stamp’s bio, was reminded his brother was one of the managers of The Who in the swinging sixties. So I looked up his brother to see whatever became of him and turns out he and his wife were druggies who went through rehab and became woo woo therapists “teaching healing energy” in the town next door. A whole bunch of certificates from non state accredited “institutes.” Meanwhile people like my husband and I spend years working and getting degrees and licenses and registrations from the state board of education’s professional licensing bureau which we renew every 2 years, and carry malpractice insurance. We should’ve gone into magic healing instead.

But both husband and wife are sadly no longer alive.

R85 it really was.

Stamp is the best villain in any comic book movie. It helps that he played Zod in real movies with real craftsmanship, unlike the putrid and overrated Marvel films that are still being cranked out. Can we have some normal movies and great acting again?

[quote] Can we have some normal movies and great acting again?

That era has passed.

Terence was great in Britannia Hospital (1982).

Face it, Stamp has amazing screen magnetism.

He always looked like Jon Voigt's hotter brother to me.

As for Priscilla, the ping-pong ball scene was a bit too far even for the time period. Love the film otherwise.

He always seemed elegant

[quote]As for Priscilla, the ping-pong ball scene was a bit too far even for the time period.

Was that ping-pong ball popping out of her anus or her vulva?

I lived in Bondi for many years and used to see Terence doing the Bondi to Bronte walk several times a week. Nobody bothered him and I got a smile once or twice.

Were you vamping him, R95?

A good friend of mine knows him and says he's a sweetheart. He worked on one of his films.

I don't know what that means R96 but I'm going to say no I wasn't vamping him. He seemed very normal and unassuming.

[quote] I don't know what that means [R96] but I'm going to say no I wasn't vamping him.

"Vamping" means wearing red on top of an upright piano singing lyrics like "People call me psycho-NOO-rotic, / But you can call me Blanche DuBois..."

[quote] As for Priscilla, the ping-pong ball scene was a bit too far even for the time period. Love the film otherwise.

I actually had more trouble with the ABBA turd scene.

R100 Yuck.

I have watched the beginning of this bizarre little 'movie' about 4 times but I always turn off half way through.

The director was an adolescent amateur as was proved in his following two inept box-office failures.

R101 Welcome to Woop Woop is golden.

Is he the same person as Alan Ford?

R102 Easy Virtue was an embarrassment.

R103 No one knows who that is.

Whereas Terence Stamp has appeared in five quality movies over the last fifty years.

I heard he was quite the pain on Priscilla. He accepted the role knowing it was a trans character, but when he got to Australia he didn't want to do it and everything he did had to be coaxed out of him; in contrast to Weaving and Pearce, who were enthusiastic and said they felt liberated by the drag.

I can sympathise; Stamp was a top line performer in the 60s doing films for Wyler, Ustinov, Fellini, Pasolini, and Schlesinger.

He was asked to visit the colonies, spend time in Australia's stinking hell-hole of a desert starring alongside two B-list performers and being directed by an amateurish, nepo-baby socialite.

R106 His lack on interest suited the character perfectly.

[quote] sad old tranny

All the old trannies I've ever met looked sad.

They'll never get an orgasm for the rest of their sad life.

R109 Yep.

[quote]He dated actresses like Julie Christie, Monica Vitti, and Jean Shrimpton.

Jean Shrimpton was never an actress, she was a very famous British fashion model.

Jean Shrimpton (with her Jean Simmons like face) was in one, hard-to-watch movie.

It was directed by an angry young anarchist named Watkins.

It starred a handsome man who gave up the business to become a Christian evangelist.

He was great in The Limey, an under-rated movie. So was Peter Fonda.

[quote]Jean Shrimpton (with her Jean Simmons like face) was in one, hard-to-watch movie. It was directed by an angry young anarchist named Watkins. It starred a handsome man who gave up the business to become a Christian evangelist.

I saw Privilege, the lead performer was also not an actor, much in the same way Jean was never an actress. The director was cashing in on both the performers being attractive and famous in their other fields.

Singer Paul Jones was the lead in this film, Paul was the original lead singer in the band Manfred Mann.

Paul Jones had such a sweet face, voice and demeanour in this discussion about Christianity with James Fox.

Priscilla was huge for his profile, but he said he didn't actually get any work from it. He said the only role he got offered was as a transsexual in an episode of ER. He declined.

I heard he was mean. Like Oliver Reed mean.

I heard there was a time of anxiety and disillusion (perhaps exacerbated by drugs) in the 70s when he was forced to transition from quality movies down to rubbishy supporting roles in a too many rubbishy movies..

If the [co]stars of The Matrix and LA Confidential are B-list, R107, it's hard to see where Stamp is an A. Criticise Stephan Elliott if you will, but Weaving and Pearce excel at what they do. (Weaving could act Stamp under the table from any period of his career.)

I absolutely love Terence Stamp. Especially in the very lame, but enjoyable, movie My Boss’s Daughter. The movie is very stupid, but my husband and I enjoyed it.

Has anyone seen The Limey with Stamp and DL fav Lesley Ann Warren?

He is Terence Stamp!

One can say there is a direct line of apprenticeship from Terence Stamp to Peter O'Toole, for whom Stamp was an understudy in a 1959 play, to Eric Porter, who Peter O'Toole credited as the actor from whom he learned the most.

R26: "Prunella Ransome" is not a name that really screams "marque", probably not even in the UK where Prunella seems to be a somewhat common name.

All the same she was pushed as an up-and-coming starlet and was nominated for a Golden Globe.