Laurent Terzieff

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Laurent Terzieff, 2009

Laurent Terzieff (born June 27, 1935 in Toulouse , †  July 2, 2010 in Paris ) was a French actor who worked in theater , film and television .

life and work

Laurent Terzieff was born the son of a ceramicist and sculptor who emigrated from Russia at the time of the First World War . He was self-taught in his profession and never attended drama school . As a teenager he grew into theater work in his spare time as a technical assistant, extra and prompter . At the age of 18 he made his debut as an actor in a play by Arthur Adamov at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953 . In 1958 he was discovered for the cinema by Marcel Carné for The Deceiving Themselves , a portrait of the existentialist youth of the 1950s. His partners in this film were Jean-Paul Belmondo , Jacques Charrier and Pascale Petit . In the following years he worked as a partner of Brigitte Bardot in Two Weeks in September and under directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini ( Medea ) , Luis Buñuel ( The Milky Way ) , Roberto Rossellini (Vanina Vanini) and Jean-Luc Godard (Détective) . Occasionally he also took advantage of television offers.

In France, in addition to his film work, Terzieff was mainly perceived as an important stage actor, he also appeared as a director of plays. In 1961, he and his partner, the actress Pascale de Boysson (1922–2002), founded the “Theater-Compagnie Laurent Terzieff” (which made it possible to receive subsidies). He played and staged classical and modern pieces, mainly in Paris. The actor also made a name for himself as a reciter of poems, including poetry by Bertolt Brecht ; he went on tour with a Brecht revue.

Politically, Terzieff counted himself on the left . In 1960 he signed the 121 manifesto by French artists and intellectuals against the Algerian war , and in 2002 a corresponding appeal (not on our behalf) against the Iraq war . He was awarded the French national orders Ordre national du Mérite and Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .

Laurent Terzieff died of complications from a lung complication in a Paris hospital.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • Molière (theater award):
    • 1988: Best Director for Ce que voit Fox
    • 1993: Best director for Temps contre temps
    • 2010: Best Actor for L'Habilleur and Philoctète

literature

  • Fabienne Darge: Laurent Terzieff , Le Monde , July 6, 2010, p. 21 (full-page obituary)

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personal data
SURNAME Terzieff, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 2010
Place of death Paris