Mircea Diaconu
Born: 1949-12-24 in Vlădești, Argeș, Romania
Died: 2024-12-14
Known For: Acting
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
2015
- To Paris with the Identity Card as Drăgan Niță
2014
- In-laws as Ştefan Vrânceanu
- A Love Story, Lindenfeld
2010
- Poker as Calabrezu
2009
- Kino Caravan as Tanasie
2008
2006
- Love Sick as Mr. Dragnea
- The Way I Spent the End of the World as Grigore Matei
- Happy End
2002
- Philanthropy as Ovidiu Gorea
2000
1999
- Fii cu ochii pe fericire as Titi
1996
- Asphalt Tango as Andrei
- Dănilă Prepeleac as Dănilă Prepeleac
1992
- Videograms of a Revolution as himself (archive footage)
- The Telephone as Radu
1990
- Reach for the Sky as Mircea
1988
- O vară cu Mara as Ilieș Calancea
- Flames Over Treasures as Barkeeper
- The Secret of the Secret Weapon as Zmeul Zmeilor
1987
- Starting Over as Mircea
- A Smile Of The Sun as Împăratul
1985
- Promisses as Petruș
- The Kid ... (Writer)
- Repeated Wedding as Radu Petrescu
1984
- Un petic de cer as Ion Panait
- O lumină la etajul zece as zidarul Trică
- Horea as Candrea Alexa Kendy
1983
- Căruța cu mere as Garofiță
1982
- Sequences... as motel keeper
- Bucharest Identity Card as Radu Petrescu
- The End of the Night as Prosecutor Matei
- Waiting for a Train as Zarzalin
- The Computer Testifies as V. Vișan
1981
- The Sign of the Serpent as Flondor
- The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? as Iordache
1980
- Poor Ioanide as milițian
- Fox Hunting as Pătru cel scurt
- The House Between the Fields as Ilarie
1979
- Tragic Vacation as Sandu
1978
- Operation 'The Bus'
- The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- Together Again as Bănuță
- Before the Silence as Pvt. Dumitru
1977
- Oil as Grigore
- Shootings Under the Moonlight as Sgt. Marin Văduva
- A Lost Letter as Iordache Branzovenescu
1976
- Red Apples as Dr. Irod
- A Summer Tale
1975
- The Actor and the Savages as Radu Toma
- Filip the Kind as absolventul de liceu Filip
1974
- The Trap as Oarca
1973
- The Stone Wedding as dezertorul
- The Poseidon Explosion
1972
- Farewell, Dear Nela! as Bibi