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
- Dănilă Prepeleac as Dănilă Prepeleac
- Asphalt Tango as Andrei
1992
- The Telephone as Radu
- Videograms of a Revolution as himself (archive footage)
1990
- Reach for the Sky as Mircea
1988
- O vară cu Mara as Ilieș Calancea
- The Secret of the Secret Weapon as Zmeul Zmeilor
- Flames Over Treasures as Barkeeper
1987
- A Smile Of The Sun as Împăratul
- Starting Over as Mircea
1985
- Repeated Wedding as Radu Petrescu
- Promisses as Petruș
- The Kid ... (Writer)
1984
- Horea as Candrea Alexa Kendy
- O lumină la etajul zece as zidarul Trică
- Un petic de cer as Ion Panait
1983
- Căruța cu mere as Garofiță
1982
- The End of the Night as Prosecutor Matei
- Bucharest Identity Card as Radu Petrescu
- The Computer Testifies as V. Vișan
- Sequences... as motel keeper
- Waiting for a Train as Zarzalin
1981
- Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica? as Iordache
- The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- The Sign of the Serpent as Flondor
1980
- The House Between the Fields as Ilarie
- Poor Ioanide as milițian
- Fox Hunting as Pătru cel scurt
1979
- Tragic Vacation as Sandu
1978
- Operation 'The Bus'
- This Above All
- The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians as Romulus Brad
- Before the Silence as Pvt. Dumitru
- Together Again as Bănuță
1977
- Oil as Grigore
- Shootings Under the Moonlight as Sgt. Marin Văduva
- A Lost Letter as Iordache Branzovenescu
1976
- A Summer Tale
- Red Apples as Dr. Irod
1975
- Filip the Kind as absolventul de liceu Filip
- The Actor and the Savages as Radu Toma
1974
- The Trap as Oarca
1973
- The Stone Wedding as dezertorul
- The Poseidon Explosion
1972
- Farewell, Dear Nela! as Bibi