Laurent Terzieff

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.

Known For

Théodore Géricault

Le radeau de la Méduse

Pharao Mernefta

Moses the Lawgiver

Jacques

La luxure

Vincent Vivant

Ballade pour un voyou

Ejlert Lövborg

Hedda Gabler

Julien

Utopia

Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné

Mon petit doigt m'a dit...

Émile

J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster

Chirone

Medea

Jean

La Voie lactée

Marius Balakin

Étoile

Alain

Les Tricheurs

Sascha

Kapò

Le père

Le Révélateur

Isaïe

La guerre dans le Haut Pays

Calvé

Il pleut sur Santiago

Ruggeretto

La notte brava

Stanislas Hassler

La Prisonnière

William Prospero

Détective

Mr. Grenier

Peau d'ange

Vincent

À cœur joie

Alexandre Jung

Largo Winch II

Narrator (French Version) (voice)

Araya

Frédéric, teacher

Le voyage du père

Médée Passion: Souvenirs d'un tournage

Bandiera

Ostia

Le jeune homme

Le Horla

Finch

Diesel

Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"

Les Culottes rouges

Jacques (segment "La luxure")

Les Sept Péchés capitaux

Moishe

Rouge baiser

Narrator (voice)

La Frontière

Kopetsky

12 heures d'horloge

عرس الدم

Père Armendariz

Fiesta

Monsignor Gastaldi

Don Bosco

Michetti

D'Annunzio

Lectoure

La Vénitienne

Souvarine

Germinal

Jean-François Cordier

Tu ne tueras point

Charles Parisot

Le bois des amants

Laurent

Le grain de sable

Les Hautes solitudes

Pietro Missirilli

Vanina Vanini

Un ange passe

'Le Chevalier'

La Flambeuse

Premier mai

Philosopher

L'Apprentissage de la ville

Rien, voilà l'ordre

Michel

Couleur chair

Territori d'ombra

Larth

La ragazza dei lillà

Self

Buñuel: Athée grâce à Dieu

Georges

Voyage au jardin des morts

Alfonso

Les Fruits amers

Inquisitor

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling

Il deserto dei Tartari

Narrator (voice)

La Dénonciation

Carl Noren

Bröder Carl

Enéo

Les Régates de San Francisco

Reader (voice)

La Messe sur le monde

Self (archive footage)

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Andrea

Gila and Rik

Versailles, peut-être

Auguste Dupin

Le Chevalier Dupin: La lettre volée

Marco Pace (60 anni)

Il manoscritto del principe

Doria mayor

El pianista

Thierry

Mort, où est ta victoire ?

Le prêtre

Jeu

Professore

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo