By William Schomberg

LONDON (Reuters) -Terence Stamp liked to recall how he was on the verge of becoming a tantric sex teacher at an ashram in India when, in 1977, he received a telegram from his London agent with news that he was being considered for the “Superman” film.

“I was on the night flight the next day,” Stamp said in an interview with his publisher Watkins Books in 2015.

After eight years largely out of work, getting the role of the arch-villain General Zod in “Superman” and “Superman II” turned the full glare of Hollywood’s limelight on the Londoner.

Buoyed by his new role, Stamp said he would respond to curious looks from passers-by with a command of: “Kneel before Zod, you bastards,” which usually went down a storm.

He died on Sunday morning, aged 87, his family said in a

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