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The personal collection of the actor Terence Stamp (1938 to 2025) comes to auction for the first time at Bonhams Knightsbridge. Featuring scripts, costumes, letters, photographs, furniture and fashion pieces, Sound & Cinema: Featuring The Terence Stamp Collection runs from 15 to 25 June online. One of the defining figures of London in the swinging sixties, Stamp took on an array of memorable roles across a six-decade career.
Among the highlights are three letters from Jean Shrimpton to Stamp, dated 1964 to 1987 (estimate £1,000 to £1,500). Shrimpton and Stamp were an iconic couple of the era, a celebrated supermodel and an emerging film star whose image was immortalised in photographs by Terry O’ Neill. Stamp later described Shrimpton as the love of his life, though their relationship lasted only a few years.
The sale documents Stamp’s friendship with Diana, Princess of Wales, through a handwritten thank-you letter dated 17 October 1991 (estimate £1,500 to £2,000). The letter thanks Stamp for lunch, noting that ‘the risotto was perfect’, and closes ‘ Lots of love Terence and a huge thank you, from Diana x’, together with a postmarked envelope addressed to The Albany.
Film material includes a script for Billy Budd of 1962 (estimate £600 to £800), a pair of gold Palme d’ Or cufflinks engraved ‘ Cannes’ (estimate £1,500 to £2,000), and a grey Prince of Wales check suit worn by Stamp as Sir Larry Wildman in Wall Street of 1987 (estimate £3,000 to £5,000). Stamp won the Best Actor award at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival for The Collector.
Other lots include a Swiss 18kt yellow gold watch by Bösch, gifted to Stamp by Peter Ustinov and Suzanne Cloutier after filming Billy Budd and engraved ‘ God go with you Billy’ (estimate £2,500 to £3,500); a collection of approximately 52 original Polaroid photographs from the making of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert of 1994 (estimate £2,000 to £2,500); and an Academy Award nomination plaque for Billy Budd (estimate £500 to £700).
Born in Stepney, East London, in 1938, Stamp came to prominence in the 1960s alongside Albert Finney, Michael Caine and Tom Courtenay. His screen roles ranged from General Zod in Superman and Superman II to Sergeant Troy in Far from the Madding Crowd, Bernadette in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and later parts in Star Wars: Episode I and Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
(Press Release)
