Acting
Community Rating
6.5
TMDB estimate
Born
June 27, 1935
Died
July 2, 2010 (age 75)
Born in
Toulouse, 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.
Laurent Terzieff et compagnie
as Self
TBA
Terzieff par lui-même
as Self (archive footage)
TBA

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
2020

Largo Winch II
as Alexandre Jung
2011

La Vénitienne
as Lectoure
2010

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
as Émile
2008

Tête d'or
2007

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
as Self
2005

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
2005

Medea: On-Set Memories
2004

Rien, voilà l'ordre
2004

Pontormo - Un amore eretico
as Inquisitor
2004

Once Upon an Angel
as Mr. Grenier
2002

Territori d'ombra
2001

The Prince's Manuscript
as Marco Pace (60 anni)
2000

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
as Professore
2000

War in the Highlands
as Isaïe
1998

Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998

The Pianist
as Doria mayor
1998

Le radeau de la Méduse
as Théodore Géricault
1998