RIP Terence Stamp

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

One last time... KNEEL BEFORE ZOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZjkKrm6CWY

...I admit, he did have the better outfit. (Not quite as good as Ursa's.)

 

Aside from delivering one of the finest OG villain beards, he's been a shadowy Adjustment agent, Jor-El in Smallville, an Ultramarine, multiple gangsters, and of course, a Queen Of The Desert.

 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39d41g7nmlo

 

 

[Techwright]

Stamp was also the butler Ramsley in the first Haunted Mansion film playing opposite Eddie Murphy.  Admittedly, not the greatest of his films, and a role oddly handled by writers and director, but Stamp was still memorable.  

 

I'd forgotten it, but looking down the IMDB list for Stamp, I was reminded that he played Chancellor Valorum in the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy.  Valorum was the character who was forced out of the Republic chancellor's post by the secret galactic manipulations of Palpatine/Sidious.  

 

I first encountered Terrence Stamp onscreen in the Superman movies.  I remember thinking it odd (still do) that he was playing this over-the-top comic book villain, when it was so clear from his bearing, despite having to deliver several campy lines, that he should be filming Shakespeare.  I assume Stamp was classically trained, though I've not read it.  He certainly had that bearing that actors like Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, and Derek Jacobi all bring to the screen.  And yet I can't find any filmed works of the classical playwrights in his list.   It's a shame really.  He would have made an excellent Prospero or King Lear.

[AboveTheChemist]

This news makes me quite sad. I saw Priscilla for the first time a month or so ago, and he was brilliant in it. I was a big fan of Young Guns when I was a kid and while his role is somewhat brief, it is certainly memorable. The film that really gave me a great appreciation of him, though, was The Limey.

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Still haven't seen The Limey - will add to queue.

 

One other fun little turn: Bowfinger, in which Terry plays Eddie Murphy's Scient..er...MindHead minder.

Yes, there's a quite bit of sinister, but delivering psychobabble is always fun...

[Coin]