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The British actor, who starred in 'Billy Budd,' 'Wall Street,' 'Superman II' and 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,' died Sunday at 87.
"You were a true inspiration, both in & out of heels," Pearce wrote of his The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert co-star
Filmmaker Edgar Wright and actors Guy Pearce and Lou Diamond Phillips took to social media to express their grief over the Sunday death of actor Terence Stamp.
His obituaries all led with General Zod, but his turn as the caustic, undeniable Bernadette Bassenger in 1994's ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ might shine brightest.
The plot follows two drag queens Mitzi Del Bra and Felicia Jollygoodfellow (played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce) and transgender woman Bernadette Bassenger (Stamp), as they journey across the Australian Outback on a tour bus named Priscilla.
The news that the actor, fashion icon and great survivor of the Swinging Sixties Terence Stamp has died at the age of 87 is somehow impossible to believe. Like another offbeat film star, Donald Sutherland,