Mircea Diaconu
Acting • Born 1949-12-24 – Died 2024-12-14
Biography
Born in Vlădești, Argeș County, he graduated high school in Câmpulung in 1967 and Bucharest's Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1971. He made his theatrical debut a year before graduating, at the Bulandra Theater, in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. His screen debut came in Dan Pița's Nunta de piatră (1972); he would later appear in the same director's Filip cel Bun (1975). Other directors with whom he has worked include Alexandru Tatos (Mere roșii, 1975; Secvențe, 1982; and Secretul armei secrete, 1988), Virgil Calotescu (Buletin de București, 1982; and Căsătorie cu repetiție, 1985), Nae Caranfil (Asfalt Tango, 1996; and Filantropica, 2002) and Cătălin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World, 2006). In all, he has appeared in more than sixty films. Diaconu worked with Lucian Pintilie both in film (the 1981 De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?) and in theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at Bulandra, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater. Liviu Ciulei hired him at Bulandra in 1972, and he remained there for a decade, before moving on to Nottara. At Bulandra, he appeared in Twelfth Night and The Tempest, both under Ciulei's direction; and in Marin Sorescu's Răceala, directed by Dan Micu. At Nottara, he appeared in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest; Ultimul bal, after Liviu Rebreanu's Forest of the Hanged; and Mihai Ispirescu's Într-o dimineață. He became the director of Nottara Theater in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.
Filmography
60 credits
Asphalt Tango
Movie • 1996
Andrei
Bucharest Identity Card
Movie • 1982
Radu Petrescu
Love Sick
Movie • 2006
Mr. Dragnea
Philanthropy
Movie • 2002
Ovidiu Gorea
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
Movie • 1978
Romulus Brad
Sequences...
Movie • 1982
motel keeper
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
Movie • 1978
Romulus Brad
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
Movie • 1981
Romulus Brad
Reach for the Sky
Movie • 1990
Mircea
Ticăloșii
Movie • 2007
Mircea Prejbeanu
One-Day Adventures
Movie • 2008
Happy End
Movie • 2006
To Paris with the Identity Card
Movie • 2015
Drăgan Niță
Red Apples
Movie • 1976
Dr. Irod
Kino Caravan
Movie • 2009
Tanasie
Fox Hunting
Movie • 1980
Pătru cel scurt
A Love Story, Lindenfeld
Movie • 2014
A Lost Letter
Movie • 1977
Iordache Branzovenescu
The Stone Wedding
Movie • 1973
dezertorul
In-laws
Movie • 2014
Ştefan Vrânceanu
The Firemen's Choir
Movie • 2000
Repeated Wedding
Movie • 1985
Radu Petrescu
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Movie • 2006
Grigore Matei
A Smile Of The Sun
Movie • 1987
Împăratul
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
Movie • 1981
Iordache
The Secret of the Secret Weapon
Movie • 1988
Zmeul Zmeilor
The House Between the Fields
Movie • 1980
Ilarie
Dănilă Prepeleac
Movie • 1996
Dănilă Prepeleac
The Poseidon Explosion
Movie • 1973
O lumină la etajul zece
Movie • 1984
zidarul Trică
The Sign of the Serpent
Movie • 1981
Flondor
Poor Ioanide
Movie • 1980
milițian
Filip the Kind
Movie • 1975
absolventul de liceu Filip
Oil
Movie • 1977
Grigore
Un petic de cer
Movie • 1984
Ion Panait
Poker
Movie • 2010
Calabrezu
Waiting for a Train
Movie • 1982
Zarzalin
A Summer Tale
Movie • 1976
Happenings with Alexandra
Movie • 1989
Farewell, Dear Nela!
Movie • 1972
Bibi
The Actor and the Savages
Movie • 1975
Radu Toma
Operation 'The Bus'
Movie • 1978
Promisses
Movie • 1985
Petruș
Starting Over
Movie • 1987
Mircea
The Computer Testifies
Movie • 1982
V. Vișan
The Trap
Movie • 1974
Oarca
The Telephone
Movie • 1992
Radu
Before the Silence
Movie • 1978
Pvt. Dumitru
Shootings Under the Moonlight
Movie • 1977
Sgt. Marin Văduva
Together Again
Movie • 1978
Bănuță
Tragic Vacation
Movie • 1979
Sandu
The End of the Night
Movie • 1982
Prosecutor Matei
Horea
Movie • 1984
Candrea Alexa Kendy
Căruța cu mere
Movie • 1983
Garofiță
O vară cu Mara
Movie • 1988
Ilieș Calancea
Flames Over Treasures
Movie • 1988
Barkeeper
Fii cu ochii pe fericire
Movie • 1999
Titi
Tache
Movie • 2007
Tache
Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
Movie • 2003
Videograms of a Revolution
Movie • 1992
himself (archive footage)