Whether starring as a road-tripping transgender woman in “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, an intergalactic supervillain in “Superman” or a mysterious beauty in “Theorem”, Terence Stamp, who died Sunday at 87, captivated audiences in experimental films and Hollywood blockbusters alike.

His bold, decades-long career swung between big productions Michael Cimino’s “The Sicilian” to independent films such as Stephen Frears’s “The Hit” or Steven Soderbergh’s “The Limey”.

An emblem of London’s “Swinging Sixties”, he showed off a magnetic screen presence from his earliest roles, immediately gaining awards and fans.

He made his breakthrough in 1962 playing an angelic sailor hanged for killing one of his crewmates in Peter Ustinov’s “Billy Budd”, earning an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe.

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