Terence Stamp has passed away and it’s the end of an era with one of the faces of the sixties leaving us as well as one of our finest character actors. You could still see Terry in the streets of Soho and, whilst the last time I saw him he was looking his age, he was still so cool, still so handsome. I saw him introduce films at the BFI and he was as urbane and eloquent as you’d expect. His period post Zod was probably my favourite with films like The Hit, The Limey, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert but he was in some of the finest films of the ‘60s including Far from the Madding Crowd to Poor Cow. For this post I wanted to watch a film I hadn’t seen before and it turns out to be far from his finest although it does feature cattle… so some continuity with the Ken Loach work!
TBC - tomorrow. I promise!
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| Joanna Pettet and Karl Malden |
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