{"id":187422,"date":"2025-08-17T15:58:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/superman-villain-terence-stamp-dead-at-87\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:58:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:58:49","slug":"superman-villain-terence-stamp-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/17\/superman-villain-terence-stamp-dead-at-87\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman Villain Terence Stamp Dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Actor <strong>Terence Stamp<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/tag\/celebrity-deaths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has died<\/a>. He was 87.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHe leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer, that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come,\u201d Stamp\u2019s family said in a statement shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/uk\/actor-terence-stamp-star-superman-films-dies-aged-87-2025-08-17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> on Sunday, August 17, confirming the actor\u2019s death. \u201cWe ask for privacy at this sad time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Oscar winner notably played the villainous General Zod in <i>Superman <\/i>and <i>Superman II. <\/i>He also famously starred in 1994\u2019s <i>The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert <\/i>and had recent roles in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/adam-sandler-on-jennifer-aniston-friendship-murder-mystery-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019\u2019s <\/a><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/adam-sandler-on-jennifer-aniston-friendship-murder-mystery-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Murder Mystery<\/a>, His Dark Materials <\/i>the following year and <i>Last Night in Soho <\/i>in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe first film I ever saw was called <i>Beau Geste<\/i> with Gary Cooper. My mother took me to see that. I was probably under four years old,\u201d Stamp recalled of his acting inspirations during a 2013 interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/interviews\/meetings-remarkable-men-terence-stamp-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BFI<\/a>. \u201cIt was Cooper playing a soldier in the Foreign Legion. I didn\u2019t realize the impact, but it made an indelible impression on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-deaths-of-2025-stars-weve-lost-this-year\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-deaths-of-2025-stars-weve-lost-this-year\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Celebrity Deaths of 2025: Stars We\u2018ve Lost This Year<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tFrom filmmakers to artists, Hollywood lost many stars in 2025. News broke on January 4 that Aubrey Plaza\u2019s estranged husband, Jeff Baena, died one day earlier at the age of 47. Per medical examiner records viewed by Us Weekly, Baena died by suicide. \u201cThis is an unimaginable tragedy,\u201d Plaza\u2019s rep said in a statement to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">When Stamp told his parents of his acting ambitions, they were supportive of his career.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4073369\" style=\"width: 300px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:67.285714285714%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4073369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355\" width=\"1000\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Terence-Stamp-inline-GettyImages-151086355.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Monica Vitti and Terence Stamp in a scene from the film \u2018Modesty Blaise.\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Susan Wood\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOf course, my mother loved every second of it. In retrospect, my mother must have always wanted me to do it and must have wished that she could have been more supportive,\u201d he added to the outlet. \u201cBut my dad was the head of the family and I never really knew what he thought of it because he was of that generation. He was a merchant seaman, he shoveled coal, and in that confined living quarters any show of emotion would have been considered unbearably flash. By the time the war finished, he was really emotionally closed down. He never congratulated me. He must have been enormously proud, but he never communicated that with anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Stamp even channeled his father\u2019s seafaring career in his debut film, <i>Billy Budd.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI guess it was in the DNA. I always felt at home on those old galleons. I did get seasick, but once I got used to the motion, I was fine,\u201d Stamp quipped to the BFI. \u201cI guess there were a lot of things that came out [in my performance] that I wasn\u2019t aware of then. I saw some clips of it when I was at the Lille film festival. They showed the big scene between myself and Robert Ryan. I was amazed how good it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As for Stamp\u2019s personal life, he was married to <strong>Elizabeth O\u2019Rourke<\/strong> from 2002 to 2008.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/superman-villain-terence-stamp-dead-at-87\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Terence Stamp has died. He was 87. \u201cHe leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer, that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come,\u201d Stamp\u2019s family said in a statement shared with Reuters on Sunday, August 17, confirming the actor\u2019s death. \u201cWe ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}