Laurent Terzieff
Born: 1935-06-27 in Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France
Died: 2010-07-02
Known For: Acting
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
2020
- Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Largo Winch II as Alexandre Jung
2010
- La Vénitienne as Lectoure
2008
- I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster as Émile
2007
2005
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs as Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
- Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God as Self
2004
2002
- Once Upon an Angel as Mr. Grenier
2001
- Territori d'ombra as Dolbecco
2000
- The Prince's Manuscript as Marco Pace (60 anni)
- Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo as Professore
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
- The Pianist as Doria mayor
- War in the Highlands as Isaïe
- Le radeau de la Méduse as Théodore Géricault
1995
- Fiesta as Père Armendariz
1993
- Germinal as Souvarine
1989
- Etoile as Marius Balakin
1988
- Don Bosco as Monsignor Gastaldi
1987
- Love Sins as Michetti
- Gila and Rik as Andrea
1986
- La ragazza dei lillà as Larth
1982
- L'Apprentissage de la ville as Philosopher
1981
- La Flambeuse as 'Le Chevalier'
1979
- Utopia as Julien
1978
- Flesh Color as Michel
- Journey to the Garden of the Dead as Georges
1976
- The Desert of the Tartars as Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
- Moses the Lawgiver as Pharao Mernefta
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Bérénice as Titus
- Les Grands Détectives as Auguste Dupin
- An Angel Passes
- Rain over Santiago as Calvé
- Jeu as Le prêtre
1974
- Moses the Lawgiver as Pharaoh Mernefta
- Les Hautes solitudes
- The Purloined Letter as Auguste Dupin
1972
- Midi trente as Self
1971
- Brother Carl as Carl Noren
1970
- Ostia as Bandiera
1969
- The Milky Way as Jean
- Medea as Chirone
1968
- Woman in Chains as Stanislas Hassler
- Zoo Story as Jerry
- Le Révélateur as Le père
1967
- Hedda Gabler as Ejlert Lövborg
- Two Weeks in September as Vincent
- Bitter Fruit as Alfonso
- La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1966
- The Horla as Le jeune homme
- Father's Trip as Frédéric, teacher
1964
- Death, Where Is Your Victory? as Thierry
- The Circular Triangle as Laurent
1963
- Ballad for a Hoodlum as Vincent Vivant
1962
- The Seven Deadly Sins as Jacques (segment "La luxure")
- Lust as Jacques
- Les Culottes rouges as Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
- The Immoral Moment as Narrator (voice)
- La Messe sur le monde as Reader (voice)
1961
- Vanina Vanini as Pietro Missirilli
- Thou Shalt Not Kill as Jean-François Cordier
- La Frontière as Narrator (voice)
1960
- Kapo as Sascha
- Lovers Woods as Charles Parisot
- The Regattas of San Francisco as Enéo
1959
- Twelve Hours by the Clock as Kopetsky
- The Big Night as Ruggeretto
- Araya as Narrator (French Version) (voice)
1958
- The Cheaters as Alain
- Premier mai as Maurice
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self