Why was Terence Stamp famous in the 1960s?!!

You poor dear.

I dunno....what did people see in him?

Hmmm....

He has intensity, magnetism and an interesting appearance.

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Everyone wanted Terry

He was gorgeous, you idiot.

Agree, R8. Just beautiful.

Great actor, could throw a hell of a punch.

His turn as Gerenal Zod wasé fabulously campy. Superman has the better lines though......"General Zod would you care to step outside?"

Cause he swang in London.

Here's a quote from Terence: When the 1960s ended, I just ended with it. I remember my agent telling me: 'They are all looking for a young Terence Stamp.' And I thought: 'I am young.' I was 31, 32. I couldn't believe it. It was tough to wake up in the morning, and the phone not ringing. I thought: this can't be happening now, it's only just started. The day-to-day thing was awful, and I couldn't live with it. So I bought a round-the-world ticket and left.

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R13 Good!

If you want to see Terence at his most beautiful, look for "Billy Budd" from about 1963. His hair was dyed blonde and he was mesmerizing. With dark hair he was more ordinary. He got gorgeous as he aged into his 40s with gray hair. IMO a truly striking man who stayed elegant well into his 60s.

He was georgeous as the young sailor Billy Budd, perfect as the object of Claggart's obsession.

Well, he was striking. Did any of you ever see the Collector? He was fantastic in that film.

Strikingly handsome but had extremely low energy and focus as an actor. He was a total blank in Priscilla Queen of the Desert and received undeserved praise.

The blond hair didn't work as well in "Toby Dammit". Grey suited him best, I agree.

[quote] ."General Zod would you care to step outside?"

Kneel before Zod!

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His voice had an annoying nasal tone and his head was flat and shaped like a Chocks Vitamin but oh, those piercing blue eyes.

I think he’s sublime in Toby Dammit. I also think he’s menacingly sexy and devious in Madding Crowd. You can see how someone as determined and sensible as Bathsheba would have fallen for Stamp’s character.

Chet Baker's wife Carol said Stamp and Michael Caine were live-in boyfriends back in the day. She was surprised to find out, as she thought one of them -- can't remember which -- was HER boyfriend at the time.

R27

*sigh* The 70s had Terence Stamp and Michael Caine. In 2018 , we have Chris Pratt and Jamie Dornan.

In America we had Michael Sarrazin.

And John Cazale

He was frightening in "The Collector." That story became a template for stalkers. Several high profile stalker killers referenced this story as their inspiration.

Stamp was also great in "Spirits of the Dead" playing a drug addict celebrity in "Tobby Dammit."

He was a major talent and deserved his 15+ minutes of fame.

Michael Sarrazin is great in They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

Stamp is fantastic in The Collector. Thanks for mentioning that one!

He was a cock in a frock on a rock.

AND he was in "Term of Trial," which also had Olivier and home-wrecking hussy Sarah Miles. This here old fart saw that, in utero, when it came out!

R21, I thought he was pitch perfect in Priscilla as a world-weary drag queen who has largely given up on life and then is given a chance for a new start and decides somewhat tentatively to take it.

He sang and danced with Monica Vitti in "Modesty Blaise"!

He did make a comeback as menacing villain in those cowboy western movies.

He was so elegant and bittersweet as Bernadette. And very funny... he deserved the praise he got for sure.

He played Chancellor Valorum in the Star Wars prequels. He agreed to do it because he admired Natalie Portman and wanted to act with her. When he got on set he found out that (of course) George Lucas was going to digitally insert Natalie later. Stamp ended up speaking his lines to literally a stick with a tennis ball on top in place of Natalie.

Probably gave a better performance.

"The Hit" from 1984, directed by the great Stephen Fears, might be my favorite TS movie. It was the first one where he had gray hair. His character is a retired gangster in Spain and he always wears white. I thought he was incredibly sexy looking in that movie. There are better photos than this one from the Hit but most of them are at a distance. Better to find the movie somewhere and watch it.

He was also great in Star Trek: Generations as the villain.

R42, that was Malcolm McDowell with whom Stamp is often confused.

R21 you’re kidding. He was astonishing in Priscilla. Total dignity - and managed to kick ass. He created a character the audience empathized and cheered with, at a time nobody cheered for gay characters.

Damn, Terence Stamp is still sexy. Watch him talk about working with Marlon Brando...

Perhaps his greatest role.

Ummm....

Pasolini had sex with Stamp on an off for a while during and after the filming of Teorema.

He’s a strange person. Claims he stopped dating because Jeanne Shrimpton dumped him. Oh please. Then he married an Asian woman many, many years later. Talk about closeted gay man stereotype.

He made a bunch of clunker movies on the continent, including one on which Down & Out in Beverly Hills was based. I thought he was absolutely gorgeous and able to look completely different based on lighting and profile, but whenever I read interviews with him, he seemed empty, vapid and kind of whiny.

he was hot as hell in "teorema" and got to fuck everyone, dad, mom, son, daughter

R49 Down and Out in Beverly Hills was based on a French film from 1932 called Boudu Saved from Drowning. Whatever film Stamp made would also have been based on the 1932 French classic.

Bravo for r26. Stamp's "Come, Bathsheba" scene in MADDING CROWD is one of the frickin' highlights of 60s cinema.

R45, yes, but interview is from 1988.

I seem to remember some film with him being advertised as only "having 300 [or so] words in the entire film" or something like that. Does anyone know what film this might be?

In a sense, it can be argued that Down and Out is as much a remake of Teorema as it is of Boudu...

Renoir's Boudu Saved From Drowning is the ostensible source of Paul Mazursky's hilarious satire of Beverly Hills affluence, but it seems much more like a comic version of Pasolini's Teorema.

Pasolini's film, about a handsome young stranger's penetration of a bourgeois household has bred all manner of filmic knock-off and reiteration. ........In 1986, Paul Mazursky brought the tale to America with "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," starring Nick Nolte as the visitor.

The film is Bondu Saved from Drowning with a light touch of Pasolini's Teorema

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R53 lol. I was looking at the upload date.

Dear OP, Terence Stamp was famous in the Swinging 1960s because he was there in the right place at the right time. The world went Brit-crazy and everyone wanted anything close to the Beatles, Stones, Mary Quant and Carnaby Street.

Yes, R7 Everyone wanted Terry for a time. He was in demand for five years doing films for Wyler, Losey, Fellini, Pasolini and Hollywood.

He was so popular that a drippy, nondescript, ex-child actor named David Hemmings had to be hired to take all the roles Terry was too busy for.

And as you say, R13, he was a has-been by the time he reached 30 and he started appearing in trash.

I agree, R16, he was beautiful in ‘Billy Budd. I thought him less attractive when his Teddy Boy Pompadour hair-style was in place but gorgeous when the sea-winds blew it about.

R18 R31 He was good in ‘The Collector’ but we can safely assume that every moment and moue in that film was scrutinised and coached to the ‘nth degree’ by the fastidious Wyler. (And it has a magical music score by Maurice Jarre!)

R54 Having 300 or so words in the entire film was de rigeur for filmmakers like Antonioni where the audience is expected to fill in the blanksa?

R21 Yes, he was a comatose blank in Priscilla; playing a tranvestite wasn’t he?

I’ve never been able to watch until the end of that one because it’s such an amateurish film by a gay amateur director who failed at everything else he attempted. All the other characters were brainless and/or ugly.

He was so amazingly affecting in the criminally underrated and little-seen Mind of Mr. Soames. Saw it as a child and it has always stayed with me...

I suppose his working-class character in The Collector": would;d be considered an "in-cell" nowadays.

Beautiful face and an allegedly amazing wang - what’s not to like?

R61 Well I'm not sure I liked his lazy vocal abilities. Most English actors have superior vocal skills and are in demand even when they become old and haggard.

Perhaps because he was typecast in working-class roles or perhaps he admired the uber-mumbler Brando.