The British actor and writer Terrence Stampwho first became known as a model in London in the 1960s and then played Superman’s “rival” General Zodin the Hollywood hits “Superman” and “Superman II” with the unforgettable Christopher Ribdied at the age of 87, his family announced on Sunday.

Oscar nominee starred in films starting with Pierre Paulo Pasolini’s “Theorem” in 1968 and “A Season in Hell” in 1971 to “Priscilla’s Adventures, Queen of the Desert” in 1994, where a trans.

At the same time, he starred in Western in 1968 “Blue”, whose music was written by the great music composer Manos Hadjidakis.

The family said in a statement to Reuters that Stamp died on Sunday morning.

“He leaves behind him an excellent work, both as an actor and as a writer, who will continue to touch and inspire people for the coming years.”his family said. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this sad moment.” The cause of death was not known.

Terence Stamp remembered how he was on the verge of becoming ‘Tentric sex teacher’ In an Ashram in India, when, in 1977, he received a telegram from his London agent in the news that he was being examined for director Richard Donner’s “Superman” film “Superman”.

After eight years, largely unemployed, the role of General Zod in the films “Superman” and “Superman II” turned all the headlights of Hollywood’s publicity in London.

Excited by his new role, Stab said he was responding to the strange looks of passers -by with the order of the “bad” alien general: “Kneel in front of Zod, deceased.”

What did Manos Hadjidakis say about Stamp

“In 1968 Hollywood lived the flower revolution, with many hallucinogenic, with quite hesitant erotic freedom and a weekly newspaper,” Free Press “, which was sold by fanatical young people on the Sunset Strip sidewalks” Hadjidakis was telling when he had returned to Greece as Kathimerini reports. “At the same time, Paramount was returning an ambitious poetic western directed by a Canadian, Narizano, starring an Englishman, Terrence Stamp, and a Mexican, Ricardo Montalban, and a Greek, Greek, me. It was then that I toured and hosted Bee Gees in their Paramount, and down in the Jewish district the HP Lovecraft sang Rembo’s “Drunk Boat”. In this drunken festival I tried to overcome the beauty of Terence Stamp And I wrote this “Blue” music. ”