"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," the family statement said.

Terence Stamp, the magnetic British actor whose film roles included a naïve 18th-century merchant seaman in “Billy Budd,” a violent 19th-century swordsman in “Far From the Madding Crowd,” a tyrant fr...

Throughout the 1960s and into the early 2000s, Stamp worked with top directors to create many movies, including “The Hit,” for which he was awarded the Grand Medaille de Vermeil in Paris.