Laurent Terzieff
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.
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Known for
Rain over Santiago
Calvé
Midi trente
Self
Le radeau de la Méduse
Théodore Géricault
La ragazza dei lillà
Larth
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Medea: On-Set Memories
The Circular Triangle
Laurent
The Regattas of San Francisco
Enéo
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Lust
Jacques
La Vénitienne
Lectoure
Medea
Chirone
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Self
Blood Wedding
An Angel Passes
The Desert of the Tartars
Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
Journey to the Garden of the Dead
Georges
Kapo
Sascha
Twelve Hours by the Clock
Kopetsky
Germinal
Souvarine
Two Weeks in September
Vincent
Etoile
Marius Balakin
Love Sins
Michetti
The Milky Way
Jean
Le Révélateur
Le père
Largo Winch II
Alexandre Jung
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Inquisitor
Detective
William Prospero
La Messe sur le monde
Reader (voice)
Vanina Vanini
Pietro Missirilli
Territori d'ombra
Fiesta
Père Armendariz
Brother Carl
Carl Noren
Bitter Fruit
Alfonso
Moses the Lawgiver
Pharao Mernefta
La Flambeuse
'Le Chevalier'
Les Hautes solitudes
Ostia
Bandiera
Gila and Rik
Andrea
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Thierry
The Seven Deadly Sins
Jacques (segment "La luxure")
Red Kiss
Moishe
Father's Trip
Frédéric, teacher
Diesel
Finch
Les Grands Détectives
Auguste Dupin
Les Culottes rouges
Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
Versailles, peut-être
Flesh Color
Michel
Hedda Gabler
Ejlert Lövborg
Moses the Lawgiver
Pharao Mernefta
Woman in Chains
Stanislas Hassler
The Pianist
Doria mayor
Utopia
Julien
Rien, voilà l'ordre
Don Bosco
Monsignor Gastaldi
The Big Night
Ruggeretto
Araya
Narrator (French Version) (voice)
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Émile
Once Upon an Angel
Mr. Grenier
The Horla
Le jeune homme
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Jean-François Cordier
The Immoral Moment
Narrator (voice)
L'Apprentissage de la ville
Philosopher
Jeu
Le prêtre
The Prince's Manuscript
Marco Pace (60 anni)
Lovers Woods
Charles Parisot
The Cheaters
Alain
Premier mai
Maurice
War in the Highlands
Isaïe
La Frontière
Narrator (voice)
Bérénice
Titus
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Vincent Vivant
Zoo Story
Jerry
The Purloined Letter
Auguste Dupin
Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
Professore
Laurent Terzieff et compagnie
Self
Terzieff par lui-même
Self (archive footage)
Vivement dimanche
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
Cinépanorama
Self