Terence Stamp, the film actor who has died aged 87, was once described as “the most beautiful man in the world”.

Propelled to fame in the early Sixties by films such as Billy Budd and The Collector, Stamp seemed to be Britain’s answer to Clint Eastwood or Robert Redford. He fell in with a group of glamorous folk including Mick Jagger, David Bailey and Jean Shrimpton, whose photographs did much to sell magazines throughout the decade.

By the late Sixties, and after a highly visible split with Jean Shrimpton, however, the self-styled “icon” found himself alone, and disillusioned with what he had once described as the “paradise of publicity”. He surprised his contemporaries by leaving London for Rome, where Pasolini cast him in Teorema, as an angelic stranger who makes love to every member

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