Laurent Terzieff

Known for ActingBorn 1935-06-27Died 2010-07-02Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Territori d'ombra

The Regattas of San Francisco

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo

L'Apprentissage de la ville

Jeu

Les Grands Détectives

Bitter Fruit

Cinépanorama

The Prince's Manuscript

The Pianist

Utopia

Zoo Story

The Circular Triangle

Thou Shalt Not Kill

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Lust

Araya

Journey to the Garden of the Dead

The Milky Way

Bérénice

Les Hautes solitudes

Le radeau de la Méduse

Germinal

Death, Where Is Your Victory?

Woman in Chains

The Desert of the Tartars

Pontormo - Un amore eretico

Kapo

Don Bosco

Medea

Father's Trip

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Rain over Santiago

Les Culottes rouges

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

The Cheaters

Le Révélateur

Ballad for a Hoodlum

The Horla

Blood Wedding

Brother Carl

Largo Winch II

Moses the Lawgiver

Flesh Color

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Midi trente

Etoile

The Big Night