Mircea Diaconu
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.
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Films (62)
To Paris with the Identity Card
2015 · Drăgan Niță
In-laws
2014 · Ştefan Vrânceanu
A Love Story, Lindenfeld
2014
Poker
2010 · Calabrezu
Kino Caravan
2009 · Tanasie
One-Day Adventures
2008
Ticăloșii
2007 · Mircea Prejbeanu
Tache
2007 · Tache
Happy End
2006
Comment j'ai fêté la fin du monde
2006 · Grigore Matei
Love Sick
2006 · Mr. Dragnea
Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
2003
Philanthropique
2002 · Ovidiu Gorea
The Firemen's Choir
2000
Fii cu ochii pe fericire
1999 · Titi
Asphalt Tango
1996 · Andrei
Dănilă Prepeleac
1996 · Dănilă Prepeleac
The Telephone
1992 · Radu
Videograms of a Revolution
1992 · himself (archive footage)
Reach for the Sky
1990 · Mircea
Happenings with Alexandra
1989
The Secret of the Secret Weapon
1988 · Zmeul Zmeilor
O vară cu Mara
1988 · Ilieș Calancea
Flames Over Treasures
1988 · Barkeeper
A Smile Of The Sun
1987 · Împăratul
Starting Over
1987 · Mircea
Repeated Wedding
1985 · Radu Petrescu
Promisses
1985 · Petruș
The Kid
1985 · Writer
Horea
1984 · Candrea Alexa Kendy
A Light on the 10th Floor
1984 · zidarul Trică
Un petic de cer
1984 · Ion Panait
Căruța cu mere
1983 · Garofiță
Sequences...
1982 · motel keeper
Bucharest Identity Card
1982 · Radu Petrescu
Waiting for a Train
1982 · Zarzalin
The Computer Testifies
1982 · V. Vișan
The End of the Night
1982 · Prosecutor Matei
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
1981 · Iordache
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
1981 · Romulus Brad
The Sign of the Serpent
1981 · Flondor
Fox Hunting
1980 · Pătru cel scurt
The House Between the Fields
1980 · Ilarie
Poor Ioanide
1980 · milițian
Tragic Vacation
1979 · Sandu
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
1978 · Romulus Brad
Together Again
1978 · Bănuță
Before the Silence
1978 · Pvt. Dumitru
This Above All
1978
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
1978 · Romulus Brad
Operation 'The Bus'
1978
Shootings Under the Moonlight
1977 · Sgt. Marin Văduva
A Lost Letter
1977 · Iordache Branzovenescu
Oil
1977 · Grigore
A Summer Tale
1976
Red Apples
1976 · Dr. Irod
Filip the Kind
1975 · absolventul de liceu Filip
The Actor and the Savages
1975 · Radu Toma
The Trap
1974 · Oarca
The Poseidon Explosion
1973
The Stone Wedding
1973 · dezertorul
Farewell, Dear Nela!
1972 · Bibi