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To earn an Academy Award nomination for your film debut is no small accomplishment, but that’s just what happened to Terence Stamp following his title turn in 1962’s maritime drama Billy Budd. The famed British actor, who was born in East London’s Stepney region in 1938 and passed away yesterday at 87, went on to build a memorable career on stage, screen, and TV.
Among his most intriguing roles were the lepidopterist-turned-kidnapper in The Collector; a man awakened from a 30-year coma he entered as an infant in The Mind of Mr. Soames; renegade Kryptonian general Zod in Superman and Superman II; transgender cabaret artist Bernadette Bassenger in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; an English gangster out to avenge his daughter’s death in The Limey; a self-help guru who turns Jim Carrey into a Yes Man; and a husband who takes his terminally ill wife’s place in a seniors choir in Unfinished Song.
For this week’s poll, we’d like to pay tribute to Stamp and ask you to choose which of his film performances is your favorite. We narrowed his body of work down to 20 selections, so if your favorite isn’t here tell us about it in the comments.