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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.005 |
| Birthday | 1935-06-27 |
| Place of Birth | Toulouse, HauteGaronne, France |
| Also Known As | ローラン・テルジェフ, Лоран Терзиефф, Лоран Терзиев, |
1998
Le radeau de la Méduse
6.3/3
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Moses the Lawgiver
5.9/7
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1962
Lust
7.5/5
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1963
Ballad for a Hoodlum
5.8/5
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1967
Hedda Gabler
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Hedda Gabler
1979
Utopia
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2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2008
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
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1970
Medea
6.59/178
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1969
The Milky Way
7/166
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1989
Etoile
5.8/29
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1958
The Cheaters
6.5/25
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1960
Kapo
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Le Révélateur
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War in the Highlands
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Rain over Santiago
6.3/16
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1959
The Big Night
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1968
Woman in Chains
7/66
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Detective
5.2/62
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2002
Once Upon an Angel
4/4
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1967
Two Weeks in September
4.8/10
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
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Largo Winch II
5.866/367
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Araya
7/31
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Father's Trip
6.4/7
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2004
Medea: On-Set Memories
0/0
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Ostia
5.7/19
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The Horla
6.2/12
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1985
Diesel
4.7/6
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1962
Les Culottes rouges
6.5/10
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1962
The Seven Deadly Sins
5.6/16
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1985
Red Kiss
5.4/17
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1961
La Frontière
0/0
Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee wh...
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1959
Twelve Hours by the Clock
4.3/6
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1977
Blood Wedding
5/3
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1995
Fiesta
4.8/8
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1988
Don Bosco
6/7
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Love Sins
3/2
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La Vénitienne
3.7/6
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Germinal
6.7/321
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1961
Thou Shalt Not Kill
7.9/17
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1960
Lovers Woods
4.6/5
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The Circular Triangle
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Les Hautes solitudes
7/21
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1961
Vanina Vanini
5.8/12
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1975
An Angel Passes
6/5
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1981
La Flambeuse
1/1
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La Flambeuse
1958
Premier mai
5.5/5
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1982
L'Apprentissage de la ville
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L'Apprentissage de la ville
2004
Rien, voilà l'ordre
0/0
In the psychiatric clinic Rhien, residents and caregivers maintain unique and funny relationships.
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Rien, voilà l'ordre
1978
Flesh Color
6/2
This film was presented to the Cannes Film Festival in the parallel section in 1978. It is unreleased.
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Flesh Color
2001
Territori d'ombra
0/0
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1986
La ragazza dei lillà
4/1
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La ragazza dei lillà
2005
Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
5.5/3
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1978
Journey to the Garden of the Dead
0/0
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Journey to the Garden of the Dead
1967
Bitter Fruit
0/0
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad...
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Bitter Fruit
2004
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
6/1
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1976
The Desert of the Tartars
6.8/85
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The Desert of the Tartars
1962
The Denunciation
4.8/7
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1971
Brother Carl
5.7/3
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1960
The Regattas of San Francisco
0/0
A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco.
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The Regattas of San Francisco
1962
La Messe sur le monde
0/0
Film based on the meditations of Christian philosophers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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La Messe sur le monde
2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
6/1
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1987
Gila and Rik
0/0
The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagon...
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Gila and Rik
1977
Versailles, peut-être
0/0
Evocation of the Algerian War based on a poem by Franck Venaille recited by Laurent Terzieff.
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Versailles, peut-être
1974
The Purloined Letter
0/0
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.
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The Purloined Letter
2000
The Prince's Manuscript
8.2/2
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The Prince's Manuscript
1998
The Pianist
7.8/5
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The Pianist
1964
Death, Where Is Your Victory?
0/0
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Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1975
Jeu
0/0
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Jeu
2000
Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
0/0
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