Laurent Terzieff
Acting • Born 1935-06-27 – Died 2010-07-02
Biography
Laurent Terzieff (27 June 1935, in Toulouse – 2 July 2010, in Paris) was a French actor. Terzieff was the son of French ceramist Marina and her husband Jean Terzieff, a Romanian-born sculptor of Russian and Romanian descent who came to France from Bucharest during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Chemerzin. As an adolescent, he was fascinated with philosophy and poetry. He assisted with a representation of the La Sonate des spectres by Strindberg, directed by Roger Blin; while involved in the theater he decided he wanted to become an actor. Terzieff made his debut in 1953 at the Parisian Théâtre de Babylone of Jean-Marie Serreau in Tous contre tous of Adamov. After several more roles, Marcel Carné offered him a lead role in 1958's Tricheurs, a tale about existentialist youth. He then appeared in the late works of French scenario writers such as Claude Autant-Lara, with whom he appeared in three films including Tu ne tueras point in 1961. Other collaborators included Henri-Georges Clouzot with La prisonnière, in which he interprets an artist manipulator. In 1975 Terzieff played the leading role as the priest in the Irish artist Reginald Gray's production and direction of Jeu. His partner Pascale de Boysson, Dirk Kinnane and Bibi Hure were also in the cast. Other film appearances include Les Garcons by Mauro Bolognini in 1959, Vanina Vanini (1961), Two Weeks in September (1967), in which he appeared with Brigitte Bardot, The Milky Way (1969), Medea (1969), The Desert of the Tartars (1976), and the TV miniseries Moses the Lawgiver (1974), starring Burt Lancaster. In the 1980s, he primarily acted on stage. Appearances during this era include Rouge Baiser, Germinal in 1993, and The Raft of the Medusa in 1998. In 2005, he appeared in Mon petit doigt m'a dit. Terzieff died on July 2, 2010, due to lung complications. Source: Article "Laurent Terzieff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
81 credits
Le radeau de la Méduse
Movie • 1998
Théodore Géricault
Moses the Lawgiver
Movie • 1976
Pharao Mernefta
Lust
Movie • 1962
Jacques
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Movie • 1963
Vincent Vivant
Hedda Gabler
Movie • 1967
Ejlert Lövborg
Utopia
Movie • 1979
Julien
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Movie • 2005
Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Movie • 2008
Émile
Medea
Movie • 1969
Chirone
The Milky Way
Movie • 1969
Jean
Etoile
Movie • 1989
Marius Balakin
The Cheaters
Movie • 1958
Alain
Kapo
Movie • 1960
Sascha
Le Révélateur
Movie • 1968
Le père
War in the Highlands
Movie • 1998
Isaïe
Rain over Santiago
Movie • 1975
Calvé
The Big Night
Movie • 1959
Ruggeretto
Woman in Chains
Movie • 1968
Stanislas Hassler
Detective
Movie • 1985
William Prospero
Once Upon an Angel
Movie • 2002
Mr. Grenier
Two Weeks in September
Movie • 1967
Vincent
Largo Winch II
Movie • 2011
Alexandre Jung
Araya
Movie • 1959
Narrator (French Version) (voice)
Father's Trip
Movie • 1966
Frédéric, teacher
Medea: On-Set Memories
Movie • 2004
Ostia
Movie • 1970
Bandiera
The Horla
Movie • 1966
Le jeune homme
Diesel
Movie • 1985
Finch
Les Culottes rouges
Movie • 1962
Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie • 1962
Jacques (segment "La luxure")
Red Kiss
Movie • 1985
Moishe
La Frontière
Movie • 1961
Narrator (voice)
Twelve Hours by the Clock
Movie • 1959
Kopetsky
Blood Wedding
Movie • 1977
Fiesta
Movie • 1995
Père Armendariz
Don Bosco
Movie • 1988
Monsignor Gastaldi
Love Sins
Movie • 1987
Michetti
La Vénitienne
Movie • 2010
Lectoure
Germinal
Movie • 1993
Souvarine
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Movie • 1961
Jean-François Cordier
Lovers Woods
Movie • 1960
Charles Parisot
The Circular Triangle
Movie • 1964
Laurent
Les Hautes solitudes
Movie • 1974
Vanina Vanini
Movie • 1961
Pietro Missirilli
An Angel Passes
Movie • 1975
La Flambeuse
Movie • 1981
'Le Chevalier'
Premier mai
Movie • 1958
Maurice
L'Apprentissage de la ville
Movie • 1982
Philosopher
Rien, voilà l'ordre
Movie • 2004
Flesh Color
Movie • 1978
Michel
Territori d'ombra
Movie • 2001
La ragazza dei lillà
Movie • 1986
Larth
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Movie • 2005
Self
Journey to the Garden of the Dead
Movie • 1978
Georges
Bitter Fruit
Movie • 1967
Alfonso
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Movie • 2004
Inquisitor
The Desert of the Tartars
Movie • 1976
Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
The Immoral Moment
Movie • 1962
Narrator (voice)
Brother Carl
Movie • 1971
Carl Noren
The Regattas of San Francisco
Movie • 1960
Enéo
La Messe sur le monde
Movie • 1962
Reader (voice)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Gila and Rik
Movie • 1987
Andrea
Versailles, peut-être
Movie • 1977
The Purloined Letter
Movie • 1974
Auguste Dupin
The Prince's Manuscript
Movie • 2000
Marco Pace (60 anni)
The Pianist
Movie • 1998
Doria mayor
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Movie • 1964
Thierry
Jeu
Movie • 1975
Le prêtre
Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
Movie • 2000
Professore
Zoo Story
Movie • 1968
Jerry
Bérénice
Movie • 1975
Titus
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Movie • 1967
Laurent Terzieff et compagnie
Movie
Self
Terzieff par lui-même
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Les Grands Détectives
TV • 1975
Auguste Dupin
Midi trente
TV • 1972
Self
Cinépanorama
TV • 1956
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Moses the Lawgiver
TV • 1974
Pharaoh Mernefta