Biography
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 Bl...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a re...

Largo Winch II
2011
as Alexandre Jung
Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proc...

La Vénitienne
2010
as Lectoure

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Émile
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...

Buñuel: Atheist Thanks to God
2005
as Self
Documentary featuring interviews with several of legendary Spanish director Luis Buñuel’s close friends and collaborators.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005
as Maître Anet / Monsieur Sévigné
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Medea: On-Set Memories
2004
A documentary on the making of Pier Paolo Pasolini's MEDEA (1969) features rare behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with the cast and crew.

Rien, voilà l'ordre
2004
In the psychiatric clinic Rhien, residents and caregivers maintain unique and funny relationships.
Pontormo - Un amore eretico
2004
as Inquisitor

Once Upon an Angel
2002
as Mr. Grenier
A grief-stricken man who just lost his mother has a one night stand with a maid. What he doesn't know is that she's a virgin. He returns to his sad wo...

Territori d'ombra
2001

The Prince's Manuscript
2000
as Marco Pace (60 anni)
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
2000
as Professore

War in the Highlands
1998
as Isaïe
La Guerre Dans le Haut Pays is a period piece set in the winter of 1797-98, during the six days leading up to the fall of Bern and the victory of Napo...

The Pianist
1998
as Doria mayor
Mario Gas directed this music-themed Spanish drama set in Barcelona of the mid-'80s. When famed composer Lluis Doria (Laurent Terzieff) visits a trans...

Le radeau de la Méduse
1998
as Théodore Géricault
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis...

Fiesta
1995
as Père Armendariz
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.

Germinal
1993
as Souvarine
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, ...

Etoile
1989
as Marius Balakin
An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.

Don Bosco
1988
as Monsignor Gastaldi
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.

Love Sins
1987
as Michetti
A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadent...
Gila and Rik
1987
as Andrea
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...

La ragazza dei lillà
1986
as Larth
An honest and idealistic archaeologist, to find the legendary burial of an Etruscan king, collides with the interests of a group of "grave robbers". ...

Red Kiss
1985
as Moishe
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demo...

Detective
1985
as William Prospero
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both t...

Diesel
1985
as Finch
A prostitute, released from prison, tries to change her life, but a murderous slave organization, the Consortium, is determined to bring her back to t...

L'Apprentissage de la ville
1982
as Philosopher
Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.

La Flambeuse
1981
as 'Le Chevalier'
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and chil...

Utopia
1979
as Julien
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found...

Flesh Color
1978
as Michel
Anna is a coach and a stripper at night.

Journey to the Garden of the Dead
1978
as Georges
Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but...

Blood Wedding
1977
In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village...
Versailles, peut-être
1977
Evocation of the Algerian War based on a poem by Franck Venaille recited by Laurent Terzieff.

The Desert of the Tartars
1976
as Ten. Pietro Von Hamerling
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

Rain over Santiago
1975
as Calvé
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist preside...
Jeu
1975
as Le prêtre

An Angel Passes
1975
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussi...

Moses the Lawgiver
1974
as Pharao Mernefta
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV M...

Les Hautes solitudes
1974
Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and drug, to “star” in this silent document of her daily li...

The Purloined Letter
1974
as Auguste Dupin
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.

Brother Carl
1971
as Carl Noren
Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative...

Ostia
1970
as Bandiera
Two anarchistic brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their Catholic upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed...

Medea
1969
as Chirone
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the rev...

The Milky Way
1969
as Jean
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...

Woman in Chains
1968
as Stanislas Hassler
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gi...

Le Révélateur
1968
as Le père
A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light.

Hedda Gabler
1967
as Ejlert Lövborg
Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control th...

Two Weeks in September
1967
as Vincent
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.

Bitter Fruit
1967
as Alfonso
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad ...

The Horla
1966
as Le jeune homme
A man who lives by himself becomes increasingly concerned that he is not alone. Based on the short story by Guy de Maupassant.

Father's Trip
1966
as Frédéric, teacher
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdress...

The Circular Triangle
1964
as Laurent
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all se...

Death, Where Is Your Victory?
1964
as Thierry
Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun

Ballad for a Hoodlum
1963
as Vincent Vivant
Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.

Les Culottes rouges
1962
as Antoine Rossi, le "culotte rouge"
Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him ...
La Messe sur le monde
1962
as Reader (voice)
Film based on the meditations of Christian philosophers Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

The Immoral Moment
1962
as Narrator (voice)
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing jour...

Lust
1962
as Jacques
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN ...

The Seven Deadly Sins
1962
as Jacques (segment "La luxure")
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates i...

Vanina Vanini
1961
as Pietro Missirilli
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhoo...

Thou Shalt Not Kill
1961
as Jean-François Cordier
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a Fren...
La Frontière
1961
as Narrator (voice)
Dedicated “to the exiled, proscribed, expelled, banned,” this montage of documentary images codirected and written by Jean Cayrol—a former deportee wh...

Kapo
1960
as Sascha
Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a...

Lovers Woods
1960
as Charles Parisot
1943, Christmas Eve in occupied Brittany. Charles, a member of the Resistance, is parachuted into the house of his mother, Madame Parisot, where he me...

The Regattas of San Francisco
1960
as Enéo
A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco.

The Big Night
1959
as Ruggeretto
The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms...

Araya
1959
as Narrator (French Version) (voice)
"Araya" is an old natural salt mine located in a peninsula in northeastern Venezuela which was still, by 1959, being exploited manually five hundred y...

Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959
as Kopetsky
Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take...

The Cheaters
1958
as Alain
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces hi...

Premier mai
1958
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, thei...