Mircea Crișan

Mircea Crișan (8 August 192422 November 2013) was considered to be one of the greatest Romanian comedians and comedic actors.[1]

Mircea Crișan
Crișan in 1964
Born(1924-08-08)August 8, 1924
DiedNovember 22, 2013(2013-11-22) (aged 89)
NationalityRomanian German
OccupationActor
Years active1970-2004

Biography

Born in Romania to a German father and Romanian mother. He traveled as a child with his parents in their circus. Later he studied Dramatic Art at the State Drama School in Bucharest. In the 1950s and 1960s he played in several Romanian Comedies and the theater. He was known as a star of the former Eastern Bloc and even performed privately for Khrushchev.[2]

He took advantage of his second stint in the Music Hall Olympia in Paris in order to settle in 1968 in West Germany. He acted between 1974-1987 in four episodes of the television series Tatort. His film roles included Werner – Beinhart!, Schtonk! And the 2005 Oscar nominated As It Is in Heaven.[3]

Krishan acted between 1993 and 1997 and from 1999 until 2006 in the Störtebeker Festival. In 2006, he joined the Pumuckl theater tour. In 2007 he received in Sibiu the Culture Prize of the Romanian Theatre Union (UNITER). He spoke German, Romanian, Russian, Hebrew, English, Bulgarian, Italian and Czech and lived in Hesse Maintal.

He died in November 2013 in Düsseldorf.[4]

Selected filmography

References

  1. "Mircea Crişan nu mai spune bancuri..."
  2. "Mircea Krishan Stock Photos and Pictures - Getty Images".
  3. "As It Is in Heaven". 3 September 2004 via IMDb.
  4. "Vorbe de duh". Deutsche Welle (in Romanian). 29 November 2013. Retrieved April 11, 2014.
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