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Laurent Terzieff

Actor
Born June 27, 1935Died July 2, 2010 (75 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • The Milky Way
  • Moses the Lawgiver
Known For
  • The Milky Way
  • Detective
  • Medea
  • Woman in Chains
  • Largo Winch 2 - Ultimatum
  • Kapo
  • Germinal
  • Le révélateur
  • The Big Night
  • I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
  • Araya
  • The Desert of the Tartars
  • Ostia
  • By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  • The Betrayer
  • Les tricheurs
  • Two Weeks in September
  • Red Kiss
  • Moses the Lawgiver
  • Fiesta
  • Thou Shalt Not Kill
  • Father's Trip

Filmography

2011
Largo Winch 2 - Ultimatum · as Alexandre Jung
2010
The Venetian · as Lectoure
2009
The Red Shadows · as Direttore Le Monde
2007
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
1998
El pianista · as Doria Mayor
1995
Fiesta · as Père Armendariz
1993
Germinal · as Souvarine
1993
Private Crimes (TV Series) · as Professor Carlo Mauri
1990
The Raft of the Medusa · as Théodore Géricault
1989
Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre · as Pierre Brisson
1989
Ballet · as Marius Balakin
1988
Don Bosco · as Monsignor Gastaldi
1987
Love Sins · as Michetti
1985
Red Kiss · as Moishe
1985
Detective · as William Prospero
1985
Diesel · as Finch
1982
L'apprentissage de la ville · as Philosopher
1978
Versailles peut-être · as Poem Read By
1976
The Desert of the Tartars · as Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
1976
Moses the Lawgiver · as Pharao Mernefta
1975
Rain over Santiago · as Calvé
1975
1974
1974
Les grands détectives (TV Series) · as Auguste Dupin
1974
Moses the Lawgiver (TV Series) · as Pharaoh Mernefta
1970
Ostia · as Bandiera
1969
Medea · as Chirone
1969
1968
Woman in Chains · as Stanislas Hassler
1968
Le révélateur · as Le Père
1967
1967
Hedda Gabler · as Ejlert Lövborg
1967
1967
Bitter Fruit · as Alfonso
1966
Father's Trip · as Frédéric, L'instituteur
1964
Le grain de sable · as Laurent
1963
Ballad for a Hoodlum · as Vincent Vivant
1962
Red Culottes · as Antoine Rossi, Le "culotte Rouge"
1962
The Immoral Moment · as Narrator (voice)
1962
The Seven Deadly Sins · as Jacques (segment "la Luxure")
1961
The Betrayer · as Pietro Missirilli
1961
Thou Shalt Not Kill · as Jean-François Cordier
1960
Kapo · as Sascha
1960
Le bois des amants · as Charles Parisot
1960
1959
The Big Night · as Ruggeretto
1959
Araya · as Narrator (french Version) (voice)
1959
1958
Les tricheurs · as Alain
1958

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