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

• 2011Largo Winch II — Alexandre Jung
• 2010La Vénitienne — Lectoure
• 2008I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster — Émile
• 2007Tête d'or
• 2005By the Pricking of My Thumbs — Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
• 2004Medea: On-Set Memories
• 2004Pontormo - Un amore eretico — Inquisitor
• 2004Rien, voilà l'ordre
• 2002Once Upon an Angel — Mr. Grenier
• 2001Territori d'ombra — Dolbecco
• 2000Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo — Professore
• 2000The Prince's Manuscript — Marco Pace (60 anni)
• 1998Le radeau de la Méduse — Théodore Géricault
• 1998The Pianist — Doria mayor
• 1998War in the Highlands — Isaïe
• 1995Fiesta — Père Armendariz
• 1993Germinal — Souvarine
• 1989Etoile — Marius Balakin
• 1988Don Bosco — Monsignor Gastaldi
• 1987Gila and Rik — Andrea
• 1987Love Sins — Michetti
• 1986La ragazza dei lillà — Larth
• 1985Detective — William Prospero
• 1985Diesel — Finch
• 1985Red Kiss — Moishe
• 1982L'Apprentissage de la ville — Philosopher
• 1981La Flambeuse — 'Le Chevalier'
• 1979Utopia — Julien
• 1978Flesh Color — Michel
• 1978Journey to the Garden of the Dead — Georges
• 1977Blood Wedding
• 1977Versailles, peut-être
• 1976Moses the Lawgiver — Pharao Mernefta
• 1976The Desert of the Tartars — Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
• 1975An Angel Passes
• 1975Bérénice — Titus
• 1975Jeu — Le prêtre
• Les Grands Détectives — Auguste Dupin
• 1975Rain over Santiago — Calvé
• 1974Les Hautes solitudes
• Moses the Lawgiver — Pharaoh Mernefta
• 1974The Purloined Letter — Auguste Dupin
• 1971Brother Carl — Carl Noren
• 1970Ostia — Bandiera
• 1969Medea — Chirone
• 1969The Milky Way — Jean
• 1968Le Révélateur — Le père
• 1968Woman in Chains — Stanislas Hassler
• 1968Zoo Story — Jerry
• 1967Bitter Fruit — Alfonso
• 1967Hedda Gabler — Ejlert Lövborg
• 1967La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire — Un récitant
• 1967Two Weeks in September — Vincent
• 1966Father's Trip — Frédéric, teacher
• 1966The Horla — Le jeune homme
• 1964Death, Where Is Your Victory? — Thierry
• 1964The Circular Triangle — Laurent
• 1963Ballad for a Hoodlum — Vincent Vivant
• 1962La Messe sur le monde — Reader (voice)
• 1962Les Culottes rouges — Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
• 1962Lust — Jacques
• 1962The Immoral Moment — Narrator (voice)
• 1962The Seven Deadly Sins — Jacques (segment "La luxure")
• 1961La Frontière — Narrator (voice)
• 1961Thou Shalt Not Kill — Jean-François Cordier
• 1961Vanina Vanini — Pietro Missirilli
• 1960Kapo — Sascha
• 1960Lovers Woods — Charles Parisot
• 1960The Regattas of San Francisco — Enéo
• 1959Araya — Narrator (French Version) (voice)
• 1959The Big Night — Ruggeretto
• 1959Twelve Hours by the Clock — Kopetsky
• 1958Premier mai — Maurice
• 1958The Cheaters — Alain

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2020Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff — Self (archive footage)
• 2005Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1996Laurent Terzieff et compagnie — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• Terzieff par lui-même — Self (archive footage)