He helped redefine male beauty, ushering in the era of the cinematic bad boy.

“Mad, bad and dangerous to know”: Mr. Stamp by the Thames in London, 1962.Credit...Arthur Sidey/Daily Mirror, via Getty Images

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By Guy Trebay

No matter the role, Terence Stamp cut an irresistible figure, magnetic to watch. He was the doomed and guileless title character in the seafaring tale “Billy Budd,” the megalomaniacal General Zod in the early “Superman” films and the world-weary transgender character Bernadette in the poignant road comedy “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.”