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.
Acting
Movie
Philanthropy
as Ovidiu Gorea
2002
Movie
Love Sick
as Mr. Dragnea
2006
Movie
The Way I Spent the End of the World
as Grigore Matei
2006
Movie
Asphalt Tango
as Andrei
1996
Movie
The Stone Wedding
as dezertorul
1973
Movie
Videograms of a Revolution
as himself (archive footage)
1992
Movie
The Actor and the Savages
as Radu Toma
1975
Movie
Bucharest Identity Card
as Radu Petrescu
1982
Movie
Poker
as Calabrezu
2010
Movie
Sequences...
as motel keeper
1982
Movie
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
as Iordache
1981
Movie
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
as Romulus Brad
1978
Movie
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
as Romulus Brad
1978
Movie
Red Apples
as Dr. Irod
1976
Movie
Kino Caravan
as Tanasie
2009
Movie
The Secret of the Secret Weapon
as Zmeul Zmeilor
1988
Movie
The Poseidon Explosion
1973
Movie
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
as Romulus Brad
1981
Movie
Reach for the Sky
as Mircea
1990
Movie
Ticăloșii
as Mircea Prejbeanu
2007
Movie
Fox Hunting
as Pătru cel scurt
1980
Movie
In-laws
as Ştefan Vrânceanu
2014
Movie
A Smile Of The Sun
as Împăratul
1987
Movie
Oil
as Grigore
1977
