Stamp Album Book

Terence Stamp’s East End childhood was crowded with incident. There was the time he was sacked from his paper round for practicing calligraphy on copies of The Times and the Daily Telegraph; the day he bought his first Dayton rollcollar shirt (as worn by Dean Martin) and his sexual initiation in the laundry-room at the hands of the able Nurse Grace.‘People like us don’t do things like that’, his Dad said when he manager of Woolworths’, one of his teachers commented, intending praise. ‘Our Tel’ launched himself on an advertising career instead – where his acting talent first showed itself in his ability to lie his way into various jobs.Spanning the eventful years from the Blitz to the Teddy Boy era, this first volume of Terence Stamp’s autobiography vividly evokes a fast-vanishing area of London and its way of life, revealing that the distinguished screen actor is also a born writer.Read More