Terence Stamp

Are you kidding OP...Terrance Stamp has had a thriving career up to the present day.

It wasn’t thriving in the 70s when he admits it’s the reason he dropped out for a while and then came back for “superman” for the chance to work with Brando.

He says it here. By the end of the 60s his career was in trouble.

Did he have a bad reputation or was simply not considered box office

He probably meant his career as a leading man. He was most likely concerned about aging. That sort of thing didn't concern other 60s "it boys" like Michael Caine or Richard Harris, they just went with it.

He was heartbreaking in “billy budd” playing the dumb but sweet billy trying to see the good in the evil Robert Ryan even at the cost of his own life.

But why couldn’t he continue as a leading man? He had put in some good performances during the 60s. I would have thought there would still have been interest in casting him into the 70s. It’s odd he just stopped getting good offers after “Blue”. Although in my opinion two of his best roles came just before dropping out at the hands of the Italian directors Fellini and Pasolini.

I know he went to India for a while and was into all that eastern philosophy stuff. I wonder if he was heading for addiction or something sinister and that perhaps necessitated his “need’ for spirituality.

He’s a character actor who had leading man looks. Hollywood didn’t know what to do with him.

He married for the first time at age 64 to a 29-year-old pharmacist. Not surprisingly the marriage didn’t last. The impression one gets from this interview is that he didn’t have cutthroat personality needed for sustaining leading man roles and profile, unlike someone like Michael Caine.

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I know this will sound stereotypcally gay (what? on a gay board, sounding stereotypically gay? WTF?) but I thought he absolutely killed his role in Priscilla. The 'take your tampon and blow it up' scene plus the way he pushed his hair away, truly captivated me.

Enough of these childish threads about why various show business careers didn't achieve eternal success. There is no fucking corporate ladder in show business. Nobody goes to the top and stays there forever. You work from show to show. Or in between you wait tables. Or teach. Or live on your investments, if you've been clever enough to make them.

Agreed, r12. Criminal that he wasn't Oscar-nominated for that performance.

Conversely, its absurd that he was nominated in Supporting for Billy Budd -- he was the lead in that film.

Is Michael Caine cutthroat? He has that genial, self deprecating vibe.

Stamp is much more compelling than Caine!

He was good in "The Limey" (1999). Sometimes I get him mixed up with Malcolm McDowell, whom I also like.

He was also very good in “the hit” in 1984.

R13, I agree. I don't know why people think it's some sort of mystery why so-and-so didn't make it or why so-and-so didn't last. Maybe like .000001% of actors achieve A list fame and remain A list for decades. There's a thread now asking why Emile Hirsch didn't make it - I mean, is that some sort of mystery? He's short, not mega hot by leading man standards, he had some big flops and he got in trouble for strangling a woman. You don't need Miss Marple to find out why he's not A list

You will kneel before General Zod!

A very interesting actor. He was exceptionally pretty but also had a sinister icy-eyed look to him, so he was best playing pretty-boy villains and anti-heroes--at first he pretty much inherited Laurence Harvey's career. Then when he disappeared, Malcolm McDowell (who was far less attractive) got those kinds of roles instead.

When Stamp returned, he had lost most of his hair and played mostly villains with a slightly kinky side like General Zod.

R15 Caine was very hands on and active in furthering his career from early on, and hasn’t let up since. He pretty much admits to this and it’s partly why he never turned down roles, he kept working throughout the years. Sometimes that meant he was cast in shitty movies but other times he’d stumble on a gem or two.

He had a very lightweight thin talent...did he ever play a husband or father? ...he was getting on. He was just a pretty boy, never a great actor and he had big problems emotionally which he spoke about in his book so he went off to find himself. When he came back he was a has-been.

Seems they are not so friendly these days. They were at one time roommates, stamp and Caine. Wonder what happened, if it was just professional jealousy perhaps.

Malcolm stole Terence's career. If, A Clockwork Orange, O Lucky Man, Time After Time, Britannia Hospital, all good films starring Malcolm!

Stamp was too old to play McDowell's part in "If," but he could have played the others r24 lists.

It's funny how rough-looking both men became over the years from too much sun and too much substance abuse. They both aged greatly before their time.

You will bow down before me! First you and then one day your ASS!

[QUOTE]I know this will sound stereotypcally gay (what? on a gay board, sounding stereotypically gay? WTF?) but I thought he absolutely killed his role in Priscilla. The 'take your tampon and blow it up' scene plus the way he pushed his hair away, truly captivated me.

Bernadette would have been the first trans woman people watching Priscilla were introduced to. Stamp could have played her as a victim or a joke, but Bernadette was dignified and ordinary, and her friendship with Bob was lovely.

It really was the performance of the year, far superior to Forrest Gump.

McDowell and Stamp to me seemed like two completely different types. McDowell was way edgier; they were trying to make Stamp the British Alain Delon.

I think Stamp was the British Tab Hunter.

Stamp was gorgeous in Billy Budd.

He was also rather good looking and put in a good performance as a belligerent pupil in “term of the trial”

He was pretty good and quite sexy in Theorem in which he played a [bold]BISEXUAL[/bold] who seduces most of a wealthy Milan family.

Lots of close ups of him rubbing crotch.

He was in a movie called The Collector which got great reviews but I never saw it. Wonder if it's available anywhere.

The Collector has been on TCM. Also on DVD. It's a disturbing movie.