"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.

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.

Stamp was both. His romances with Julie Christie, Marisa Berenson, Peggy Lipton, Joan Collins — rumors of dozens more, each more glamorous than the last, created a mystique around Stamp that led him ...