Terence Stamp, the veteran British actor who performed Common Zod in Christopher Reeve’s Superman movies, and later earned a BAFTA for his portrayal of a trans girl in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, has died on the age of 87.
“He leaves behind a rare physique of labor, each as an actor and as a author that can proceed to the touch and encourage individuals for years to return,” Stamp’s household stated stated in an announcement asserting his passing on Sunday, August seventeenth. “We ask for privateness at this unhappy time.
Stamp’s different notable on-screen credit included Billy Budd, his 1962 movie debut for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Greatest Supporting Actor; the lead function in Steven Soderbergh’s 1999 crime thriller The Limey; and as Chancellor Finis Valorum in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
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Extra just lately, Stamp appeared in such movies as Valkyrie, Massive Eyes, The Adjustment Bureau, Miss Peregrine’s House for Peculiar Youngsters, and Final Evening in Soho. And in a callback to his work within the Superman movies, he portrayed Clark Kent’s organic father, Jor-El, in 23 episodes of the CW sequence Smallville.
