Terence Stamp, the London-born actor whose stunning looks helped define the 1960s film scene — but who was best known to Americans as General Zod in the early “Superman” films — died Sunday. He was 87.

Stamp’s cause and location of death were not immediately released by his family.

“He leaves behind an extraordinary body of work, both as an actor and as a writer that will continue to touch and inspire people for years to come,” Stamp’s family told Reuters news service .

Stamp was best known globally as the villainous Zod from 1980’s “Superman II,” in which his plans for world domination are foiled by Christopher Reeve’s Superman.

But Stamp was also a crucial figure in Britain’s 1960s film scene, so charming that his 1962 movie debut as the title character in 1962’s “Billy Budd”

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