Acting
Laurent Terzieff
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.
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Filmography
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Midi trente
Cinépanorama
Moses the Lawgiver
Moses the Lawgiver (Italian: Mosè) is a six-part 1975 television miniseries directed by Gianfranco De Bosio and...
Largo Winch II
Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's...
Medea
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in...
Etoile
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things...
The Seven Deadly Sins
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument ov...
The Desert of the Tartars
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack b...
Germinal
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owne...
Kapo
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to s...
Les Grands Détectives
The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their wa...
Don Bosco
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited stre...
The Cheaters
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immo...
Moses the Lawgiver
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Command...
Vanina Vanini
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to...
Woman in Chains
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His...
Love Sins
A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and F...
The Pianist
This music-themed drama is set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria visits a transvest...
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his profess...
Thou Shalt Not Kill
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a Germ...
Detective
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum...
Diesel
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortiu...
Premier mai
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her...
The Big Night
The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men comm...
Ballad for a Hoodlum
Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to imp...
Le radeau de la Méduse
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painti...
Fiesta
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
Red Kiss
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cop...
Utopia
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of hi...
Ostia
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera and...
Rain over Santiago
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet too...
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.