Legendary British actor Terence Stamp passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Let’s take a look at his historical films!
Billy Budd (1962)
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
A Season in Hell (1971)
The Divine Nymph (1975)
Meetings With Remarkable Men (1979)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Vilde, the Wild One (1986)
Young Guns (1988)
Beltenebros (1991)
These Foolish Things (2006)
September Dawn (2007)
Valkyrie (2008)
Big Eyes (2014)
Bitter Harvest (2017)
Crooked House (2017)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
What’s your favorite Terence Stamp film? Tell us in the comments!
Pretty sure the photo for September Dawn is of Jon Voight (who also starred in the film), not Stamp.
That being said, while the film sounds like dreck, the actual incident it’s based on – The Mountain Meadows Massacre – is a very interesting moment in American history, and also inspired the far superior miniseries that came out this year, American Primeval.
Last Night in Soho is one of my regular rewatch films, mostly because of the costuming (but also the stellar cast, including Stamp). The ‘Land of 1,000 Dances’ sequence is a particular highlight, given how quickly Anya Taylor-Joy’s costumes change and how every dress she wears is a 1960s original.
I also went in not knowing much besides the basic premise, so I wasn’t let down the way some people who’d seemingly seen all the ‘time travelling horror’ marketing had. It kind of reminds me of another favorite – Crimson Peak – in that way; that the marketing made it out to be something it wasn’t so people were disappointed (or to quote the main character Edith from Crimson Peak, “it’s not a ghost story, it’s a story with ghosts in it.”)
Yessss! So agree. Both movies were let down by misleading marketing campaigns. Crimson Peak is one of my comfort rewatches.
I was lucky enough to hear Odile Dicks-Mireaux, the costume designer for Soho, speak at the BFI.
That’s Jon Voight, not Stamp, in the SEPTEMBER DAWN photo.
This is Terence Stamp in the same movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473700/mediaviewer/rm4090663680/
Thank you for reviewing his historical roles, typically the first thing mentioned in most of his obituaries is General Zod in Superman II. He was so much more.
The first time I saw Terrence Stamp was in Far From the Madding Crowd when it was shown on TV. Such arresting eyes! Rest in serene peace, Sir.
Also, he was friends with Princess Diana!
It strikes me that like the late, great Mr Peter Cushing the late, great Mr Terence Stamp was a man with the bone structure for purest villainy who one found increasingly hard to accept as The Villain of the Piece as he got older and began to radiate grandfatherly warmth.
He will be much missed.
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Also, it has just struck me that Mr Stamp somehow never made a Bond movie and this will bewilder me until my dying day.
That’s a very good point. Stamp would have made such an elegant Bond villain, a dandy in bespoke suits and shoes (as T.S. was in his later years).
In all honesty it would have been equally fun to see him as a fellow Double-O agent (Especially as 008, the agent you call in when Bond isn’t getting the job done).
It’s been semi-traditional to cast actors who auditioned for Bond but didn’t get the role as his peers and Mr Stamp apparently tried out after Sir Sean quit.
Heck, he’d have made an excellent physical model for the older Bond too, with that razor r sharp bone structure and glacier blue eyes.
Of course, not a Frock Flick but I remember him fondly from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. RIP Terence.
Oh, Terence. When my generation in L.A. was growing up conflicted (Beatles? Kinks? Rolling Stones?), some of us daydreamed about “Waterloo Sunset” and Terry and Julie crossing over the river, the coolest couple in London. Plus, he was an excellent good-bad guy in “Far From the Madding Crowd.”
Rest in peace, you beautiful beautiful man.