Portrait of Laurent Terzieff

Laurent Terzieff

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.

Born: June 27, 1935

Place of Birth: Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France

Filmography

2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

as Self (archive footage)

2011
Largo Winch II

as Alexandre Jung

2010
La Vénitienne

as Lectoure

2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs

as Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné

2002
Once Upon an Angel

as Mr. Grenier

2000
The Prince's Manuscript

as Marco Pace (60 anni)

1998
The Pianist

as Doria mayor

1998
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

1987
Gila and Rik

as Andrea

1985
Red Kiss

as Moishe

1985
Detective

as William Prospero

1985
Diesel

as Finch

1982
1981
La Flambeuse

as 'Le Chevalier'

1979
Utopia

as Julien

1978
Flesh Color

as Michel

1976
The Desert of the Tartars

as Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling

1976
Moses the Lawgiver

as Pharao Mernefta

1975
1975
Bérénice

as Titus

1975
Les Grands Détectives

as Auguste Dupin

1974
Moses the Lawgiver

as Pharao Mernefta

1974
The Purloined Letter

as Auguste Dupin

1971
Brother Carl

as Carl Noren

1970
Ostia

as Bandiera

1969
Medea

as Chirone

1969
1968
Woman in Chains

as Stanislas Hassler

1968
Le Révélateur

as Le père

1967
Hedda Gabler

as Ejlert Lövborg

1967
Bitter Fruit

as Alfonso

1966
The Horla

as Le jeune homme

1966
Father's Trip

as Frédéric, teacher

1964
1963
Ballad for a Hoodlum

as Vincent Vivant

1962
Les Culottes rouges

as Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"

1962
The Immoral Moment

as Narrator (voice)

1962
Lust

as Jacques

1962
The Seven Deadly Sins

as Jacques (segment "La luxure")

1961
Vanina Vanini

as Pietro Missirilli

1961
Thou Shalt Not Kill

as Jean-François Cordier

1960
Kapo

as Sascha

1960
Lovers Woods

as Charles Parisot

1959
The Big Night

as Ruggeretto

1959
Araya

as Narrator (French Version) (voice)

1958
The Cheaters

as Alain

1958
Premier mai

as Maurice

1956