Terence Henry Stamp (July 22, 1938 – August 17, 2025) was an English actor. After training at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London he started his acting career in 1962. He has been referred to as the “master of the brooding silence” by The Guardian. His performance in the title role of Billy Budd, his film debut, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA nomination for Best Newcomer. Associated with the Swinging London scene of the 1960s – during which time he was in high-profile relationships with actress Julie Christie and supermodel Jean Shrimpton – Stamp was among the subjects photographed by David Bailey for a set titled Box of Pin-Ups. Stamp played butterfly collector Freddie Clegg in The Collector (1965), and in 1967 appeared in Far from the Madding Crowd, starring opposite Christie. His other major roles include playing archvillain General Zod in Superman and Superman II, tough guy Wilson in The Limey, Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, transgender woman Bernadette Bassinger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, ghost antagonist Ramsley in The Haunted Mansion, Stick in Elektra, Pekwarsky in Wanted, Siegfried in Get Smart, Terrence Bundley in Yes Man, the Prophet of Truth in Halo 3, Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and General Ludwig Beck in Valkyrie. He has appeared in two Tim Burton films, Big Eyes (2014) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).

Filmography

• 2021Last Night in Soho — Silver-Haired Gentleman
• His Dark Materials — Giacomo Paradisi
• 2019Murder Mystery — Malcolm Quince
• 2018Viking Destiny — Odin
• 2017Bitter Harvest — Ivan
• 2017Crooked House — Chief Inspector Taverner
• 2017Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
• 2016Crow — Great Crow
• 2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children — Abraham Portman
• 2014Big Eyes — John Canaday
• 2013The Art of the Steal — Samuel Winter
• 2012Song for Marion — Arthur
• 2011The Adjustment Bureau — Thompson
• 2010Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie — Severus (voice)
• 2008Get Smart — Siegfried
• 2008Valkyrie — Ludwig Beck
• 2008Wanted — Pekwarsky
• 2008Yes Man — Terence
• 2007September Dawn — Brigham Young
• 20069/11: The Twin Towers — Narrator(voice)
• 2006Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut — General Zod
• 2006These Foolish Things — Baker
• 2005Dead Fish — Samuel Fish
• 2005Elektra — Stick
• 2005Separate Lies — Joe (uncredited)
• 2003My Boss's Daughter — Jack Taylor
• 2003The Haunted Mansion — Ramsley
• 2003The Kiss — Philip Naudet
• 2002Full Frontal — Man on Plane / Self
• History of Football: The Beautiful Game — Narrator
• 2001My Wife Is an Actress — John
• 2001Revelation — Magnus Martel
• Smallville — Jor-El (voice)
• 2000Red Planet — Dr. Bud Chantilas
• Static Shock — Dennis / Professor Menace (voice)
• 1999Bowfinger — Terry Stricter
• 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace — Chancellor Valorum
• 1999The Limey — Wilson
• 1998Kiss the Sky — Kozen
• 1998Nureyev Unzipped — Narrator
• 1997Bliss — Baltazar
• 1997Limited Edition — Edward Lamb
• 1997Love Walked In — Fred Moore
• The Hunger — The Host
• 1996Mindbender — Joe Hartman
• 1994The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert — Bernadette Bassenger
• 1993The Real McCoy — Jack Schmidt
• 1991Prince of Shadows — Darman
• 1990Genuine Risk — Paul Hellwart
• 1988Alien Nation — William Harcourt
• 1988Young Guns — John Tunstall
• 1987The Sicilian — Prince Borsa
• 1987Wall Street — Sir Larry Wildman
• 1986Legal Eagles — Victor Taft
• 1986Link — Dr Steven Phillip
• 1986The Alamut Ambush — David Audley
• 1986The Cold War Killers — David Audley
• 1986The Deadly Recruits — David Audley
• 1986Vilde, the Wild One — Edward
• 1984The Company of Wolves — The Devil (uncredited)
• 1984The Hit — Willie Parker
• Chessgame — David Audley
• 1983The Bloody Chamber
• 1982Death in the Vatican — Padre Andreani, poi Papa Giovanni Clemente I
• 1981Mystery on Monster Island — Taskinar / Skinner
• 1980Superman II — General Zod
• 1979Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
• 1979Meetings with Remarkable Men — Prince Lubovedsky
• 1979Together? — Henry
• 1978Superman — General Zod
• 1978The Thief of Baghdad — Wazir Jaudur
• 1976Striptease — Alain
• 1975Hu-Man — Terence, Co-Producer
• 1975The Divine Nymph — Dany di Bagnasco
• 1971A Season in Hell — Arthur Rimbaud
• 1970The Mind of Mr. Soames — John Soames
• 1968Blue — Blue
• 1968Spirits of the Dead — Toby Dammit (segment "Toby Dammit")
• 1968Theorem — The Visitor
• 1968Toby Dammit — Toby Dammit
• 1967Far from the Madding Crowd — Sgt. Francis "Frank" Troy
• 1967Poor Cow — Dave Fuller
• 1966Modesty Blaise — Willie Garvin
• 1965The Collector — Freddie Clegg
• 1962Billy Budd — Billy Budd
• 1962Term of Trial — Mitchell
• Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2 — Bernadette Bassenger

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2023MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema — Self - Actor (archive footage)
• 20161966: A Nation Remembers — Himself - Narrator (voice)
• 2015Between a Frock and a Hard Place — Self - Narrator
• 2014Lambert & Stamp — Himself
• 2010Norman Wisdom: His Story — Himself : Narrator
• 2008Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Making of Oblivion — Self
• 2006You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman — Self
• 2003Fellini: I'm a Born Liar — Self - Toby Dammit
• 2002Fame, Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up — Self
• V Graham Norton — Self
• Scene by Scene — Self
• 1994Ladies Please! — Self
• Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self
• 1986Directed by William Wyler — Self
• 1983Fellini nel cestino — Self
• 1983The Making of 'Superman II' — Self
• 1982The Making of 'Superman: The Movie' — Self
• 1973Fade In — Himself
• 1967Location: Far from the Madding Crowd — Self
• 1967Tonite Let's All Make Love in London — Self
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self