Laurent Terzieff
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Vivement dimanche
Self
1998
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
Midi trente
Self
1972
Series
Cinépanorama
Self
1956
Film
Largo Winch II
Alexandre Jung
2011
Film
The Milky Way
Jean
1969
Series
Moses the Lawgiver
Pharaoh Mernefta
1974
Film
Detective
William Prospero
1985
Film
Germinal
Souvarine
1993
Film
Medea
Chirone
1969
Film
Lust
Jacques
1962
Film
Araya
Narrator (French Version) (voice)
1959
Film
Kapo
Sascha
1960
Series
Les Grands Détectives
Auguste Dupin
1975
Film
The Desert of the Tartars
Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
1976
Film
Etoile
Marius Balakin
1989
Film
Woman in Chains
Stanislas Hassler
1968
Film
Bitter Fruit
Alfonso
1967
Film
Red Kiss
Moishe
1985
Film
Once Upon an Angel
Mr. Grenier
2002
Film
The Seven Deadly Sins
Jacques (segment "La luxure")
1962
Film
Moses the Lawgiver
Pharao Mernefta
1976
Film
Bérénice
Titus
1975
Film
Flesh Color
Michel
1978
Film
The Horla
Le jeune homme
1966
Film
The Cheaters
Alain
1958
Film
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
2005
Film
Hedda Gabler
Ejlert Lövborg
1967
La Frontière
Narrator (voice)
1961
Film
Rien, voilà l'ordre
2004
Film
Two Weeks in September
Vincent
1967
Film
Utopia
Julien
1979
Film
Love Sins
Michetti
1987
Film
Ostia
Bandiera
1970
Film
Gila and Rik
Andrea
1987
Film
Diesel
Finch
1985
Film
Vanina Vanini
Pietro Missirilli
1961
Film
Premier mai
Maurice
1958
Film
The Big Night
Ruggeretto
1959
Film
The Immoral Moment
Narrator (voice)
1962
Film
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
Inquisitor
2004
Film
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Émile
2008
Film
Tête d'or
2007
Film
Rain over Santiago
Calvé
1975
Film
Twelve Hours by the Clock
Kopetsky
1959
Film
Don Bosco
Monsignor Gastaldi
1988
Film
Lovers Woods
Charles Parisot
1960
Film
Father's Trip
Frédéric, teacher
1966
Film
La Vénitienne
Lectoure
2010
Film
Le radeau de la Méduse
Théodore Géricault
1998
Film
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Jean-François Cordier
1961
Film
The Prince's Manuscript
Marco Pace (60 anni)
2000
Film
The Circular Triangle
Laurent
1964
Film
The Pianist
Doria mayor
1998
Film
An Angel Passes
1975
Zoo Story
Jerry
1968
Film
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Thierry
1964
Film
War in the Highlands
Isaïe
1998
Film
Le Révélateur
Le père
1968
Film
Les Culottes rouges
Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
1962
Film
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Un récitant
1967
Film
Blood Wedding
1977
Film
La ragazza dei lillà
Larth
1986
Film
The Regattas of San Francisco
Enéo
1960
Film
Fiesta
Père Armendariz
1995
Film
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Vincent Vivant
1963
Film
L'Apprentissage de la ville
Philosopher
1982
Film
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
Self
2005
Film
The Purloined Letter
Auguste Dupin
1974
Film
Brother Carl
Carl Noren
1971
Film
Territori d'ombra
Dolbecco
2001
Film
La Flambeuse
'Le Chevalier'
1981
Film
Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
Professore
2000
Film
Les Hautes solitudes
1974
La Messe sur le monde
Reader (voice)
1962
Laurent Terzieff et compagnie
Self
1996
Jeu
Le prêtre
1975
Terzieff par lui-même
Self (archive footage)
Versailles, peut-être
1977
Film
Journey to the Garden of the Dead
Georges
1978
Film
Medea: On-Set Memories
2004