Overview

• His family announced his passing at 87 without revealing a cause of death
• He first gained acclaim in 1962 with Billy Budd, earning an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe nod
• Stamp became a pop-culture fixture as the villainous General Zod in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980)
• Over more than 60 years he worked with directors such as William Wyler, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Federico Fellini and Steven Soderbergh
• After a near-decade retreat to India in the early 1970s he returned to reinvent himself in roles like Bernadette in Priscilla – Queen of the Desert (1994)