Terence Stamp of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is DEAD TO ME at 87!

Lovely, distinctive performer.

I guess that Priscilla sequel isn't happening.....

Oh that's sad. RIP. I lived on Bondi Beach for many years and used to see him doing to Bondi to Bronte walk a couple of times a week. Sometimes I would be walking just behind him the whole way to Bronte and I often wished I had just sped up to him and started chatting. He was a very intense looking man and he looked like he just wanted his privacy.

I remember reading write-ups about how beautiful he was dand how it was strange to see him in Priscilla as a drag queen. I was too young then to appreciate older men's looks - he just looked old to me. And I remember him in Superman 2 and not thinking he was anything to write home about.

But when you browse old pics of him in the 60s and 70s - good lord. Beautiful that looked effortless with a strong masculine feel.

87 is a good long life - and he hopefully enjoyed what privilege his looks gave him.

A gay cinema legend is gone. RIP

Whether he was being a 1960's London sex symbol or the distinguished thespian he became later in life, Stamp was a gentleman through and through.

The Limey (1999) with Stamp and Lesley Ann Warren was a underrated film

87 is a great run. But, this really sucks. A terrific performer.

"When the 60s ended, I ended with it."

Stamp and girlfriend Julie Christie

Great, that's just what his gravesite will need: a cock in a frock under a rock.

Stamp with girlfriend Jean Shrimpton

"Stamp"? Was he ever cancelled?

Definitely not heterosexual

R14 = eyeroll.

He was a first class stamp.

His strength disappeared.

"No, I'll join this conversation on the proviso that we stop bitching about people, talking about wigs, dresses, bust sizes, penises, drugs, night clubs, and bloody Abba!"

Now Zod will kneel before Saint Peter.

A beautiful lad.

RIP

RIP...

Wonderful actor, and I agree he was actually quite attractive in films like Superman II and Priscilla (although again I did not realize it until i was older).

[quote] The Limey (1999) with Stamp and Lesley Ann Warren was a underrated film

If anything I found it overhyped at the time

Recently watched Teorema, his movie with Passolini. Great stuff!

I shall watch Priscilla today in his honor.

So did he get to see the current Superman film out or not?

Just beautiful in "Billy Budd," and nominated for an Oscar. When he cheers Captain Vere at the end (and the look on Peter Ustinov's face) is truly amazing. Appears to be a bit of VPL here.

That’s where I first saw him, my god he was beautiful.

He and Samantha Edgar were terrific in William Wyler's The Collector A brilliant psychological thriller

He and Julie Christie were the personification of everything hip and beautiful and young in the mod London of the 1960s.

I hope she's doing OK.

Sad to grow old when you're that gorgeous.

On Desert Island Discs with Michael Parkinson- 1987.

On Desert Island Discs, again, in 2006, with Sue Lawley

For above ^^

[quote] On Desert Island Discs with Michael Parkinson- 1987.

He WAS Terence Stamp!

Truly a gorgeous man and a fine actor. ❤️

I thought his performance in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was embarrassingly overrated. He had a blank expression on his face for most of the first half of the film which I guess was supposedly expressing the grief his character was feeling. Ian McKellen would have been the real deal in the role.

Still an utterly gorgeous man in his youth and middle years. He must have had his choice of primo pussy and cock in the Swinging London years. Good for him.

General Zod!

Oh, no 🥺

We had FACES then!

General Zod! Say it isn't so!

My favorite Stamp film. Great fun but weird.

Plus he did the voice of Jor El on a few episodes of Smallville. How cool was that?

Chris Reeve also did appear on the same show. But I digress.

Between Christie and Shrimpton he definitely had a type.

A thriller was his only directorial credit, but financing fell though after three weeks of shooting in 1990, so it was never finished:

Stranger in the House (Eagle Intl.). Shooting in New York and Connecticut. Lorraine Bracco, Harry Dean Stanton and Terence Stamp topline Stamp’s own directorial debut. It’s based on the Patricia MacDonald thriller concerning a woman whose kidnaped boy returns 10 years after his abduction. Her joy is short-lived when she learns a madman wants her son dead. Executive producers Ed Pressman and Stefano Dammicco. Producers Ciro Dammicco and Guy J. Louthan. Screenwriters Oric Zacar, Jane Young and Stamp. Also stars Nolan Hemmings and Charlotte Lewis.

He was also in Wall Street

His Fellini episode ("Toby Dammit") in the omnibus film, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (68) is out of this world. It epitomizes 60s decadence. A Eurotrash classic.

Stamp is his fabulous, scruffy and sexy self.

Liked him in Far From the Madding Crowd

In Teorema he played a stranger who enters the lives of a wealthy Milanese family He seduces all of the members of the family including the maid and when he announces that he must leave the family falls apart. The film has similarities to Saltburn.

He starred in the Broadway production of "Alfie," and got excellent reviews (the NYT called him "brilliant"), but the production closed after only 21 performances in early 1965. The next year, the movie with Michael Caine was a smash hit.

With Juliet Mills.

Terry and Julie....

Now listen here, you mullet, OP.

Why don't you just light your tampon and blow your box apart?

Because it's the only BANG you're ever going to get, sweetheart!

“Come to me, son of my jailer! KNEEL before Zod!”

R52- That dialogue sounded like Zod was going to make Superman SUCK HIM TO COMPLETION

R50, you have to listen carefully but that is an amazing obscure catch.

I always got him mixed up with Udo Kier.

It's the creepy blue eyes I guess.

Shrimpton? What a great last name!

She could open a chain of seafood restaurants with that name.

Shrimpton's Seafood.

The classic story of picking the wrong guy:

Yoko Ono.

[quote]R56 Shrimpton? What a great last name!

Yes : )

Jean Shrimpton (aka The Shrimp) is considered by many to be the most beautiful fashion model of the 1960s.

The ONLy role I recall ever seeing him in

Was watching an old interview with Stamp today in which he talked about John Schlesinger, who directed him in Far From the Madding Crowd, and how unhappy Schlesinger was with his casting, feeling Stamp had been "foisted" on him by the producers. Hard to believe that!

Schlesinger said he didn't like working with Stamp and "I remember we had to dub a lot of his performance because he just didn't have enough balls." Stamp said he had wanted to do the part in West Country dialect and Schlesinger refused to let him.

I always got him mixed up with Udo Kier.

I get him mixed up with Malcolm McDowell - still alive.

R37, there is a doco about Priscilla which suggests that Stamp signed on OK, but then got cold feet. The director had difficulty extracting the performance from him. (In contrast, the doco says Pearce, who was the centre of a lot of attention from Neighbours, really enjoyed the anonymity of drag, and Weaving, ever the chameleon, had a flat-out great time with it.)

It certainly made a massive difference having Tony Sheldon play Bernadette on stage. Sheldon's vibe was much more like Carlotta, on whom the role was reportedly based. She was dry, but never dour. (AFAIK she's still alive but not performing.)

[quote] I guess that Priscilla sequel isn't happening.....

Has that actually been in the works?

Rest In Peace, Terence Stamp.

R65 yes last year.

Thank you, r67.

His chest in “Superman” was one of my first gay tinglings.

Rest in peace, handsome.

Susan Dey is on her summer holiday and therefore has declined to offer condolences.

When "Modesty Blaise" finished shooting in Italy in the summer of 1965, Monica Vitti invited Stamp to lunch with Michelangelo Antonioni, who asked him if he was interested in playing a fashion photographer in a film he planned to make in England. Stamp said yes, and over the next 8 months a contract was arranged, Stamp prepared for his role, and suggested contacts in the fashion world after Antonioni arrived in London. Shortly before shooting on "Blow-Up" was scheduled to begin, Antonioni saw David Hemmings in a play and decided to use him instead of Stamp. Stamp said he was shocked to be fired and hurt that Antonioni had delegated an assistant to notify him, rather than tell him directly. Stamp sued for breach of contract and defamation of reputation, and settled for half his fee. When he filmed "Toby Dammit" for Fellini a couple of years later, Stamp told him about being fired by Antonioni, and said that one day the friendly and loyal Fellini arrived on set and announced that he had just run into Antonioni and had made a point of exclaiming that Terence was "incredible, a genius, the greatest!"

In Poor Cow with Carol White

In 2017, Stamp appeared in a film of Agatha Christie's "Crooked House" with Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Max Irons and others. Stamp played a Scotland Yard detective.

[quote]you have to listen carefully but that is an amazing obscure catch.

Not so obscure to us oldies *but* I'm glad to see there are still some younger posters on DL!

Appropriate for a song born in a dream, the lyric had a dappled, impressionistic feel that is more about mood than about linear storytelling. As [Ray Davies] free-associated on memories of his youth, two names spilled out unexpectedly.

“As soon as I sang ‘Terry and Julie’,” he recalls, “it seemed that they didn’t need description. With records, I like to let the listener do some work and conjure up some images in their own way. If everybody could draw a picture of Terry and Julie, they’d all draw a different picture, according to people they knew.”

At the time, many were convinced that the names referenced one of Swingin’ London’s ‘it’ couples: actors Terence Stamp and Julie Christie. Davies, who has always been protective of the song’s mystique, denies the connection, commenting:

“I think the characters have to do with the aspirations of my elder sisters, who grew up during the Second World War and missed out on the 60s. I was thinking of the world I wanted them to have.”

Terence Stamp and Samantha Eggar discuss working with legendary director William Wyler in creating the psychological kidnap thriller adapted from John Fowles.

Samantha Eggar is another actor who never really "made it" after the 1960's.

Samantha Eggar was the Lee Remick of the UK.

So many great video interviews with Stamp online. He was so smart, so articulate. Not to mention dreamy, even as he aged.

Is the Priscilla movie streaming anywhere?

I’d like to see it again.

Amazon prime, Tubi, Pluto, Roku channel, and freevee, r80.

Thanks, R80, yeah, I found it in Prime.

😊

Sorry, meant R81.

Thank you.

Damn, Guy Pearce was fucking gorgeous. 😍

Stamp had an interesting personal life. He didn't get married until age 64, and his marriage to a much younger woman only lasted a few years. Never had any children either, it seems.

I once saw him glide through a packed Oxford Street, the intensity was real, and those eyes, blue, oh so blue