Mircea Crișan (8 August 1924 – 22 November 2013) was considered to be one of the greatest

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n comedians and comedic actors.

Biography

He was born in the

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region of northern Romania to a German father and Romanian mother. He traveled as a child with his parents in their

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. From 1944 to 1946 he studied Dramatic Art at the State Drama School in

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, in the class of

Maria Filotti Maria Filotti (9 October 1883, Batogu, Brăila, Batogu, Brăila County, Romania – 5 November 1956, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian actress . She was described as one of the "prestigious actors of the great realistic school" and the "directres ...

. In the 1950s and 1960s, Crișan played in several Romanian comedies and the theater. He was known as a star of the former

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and even performed privately for

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. In 1964 he was awarded the title of "Artist Emerit" of the

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. He took advantage of his second stint in the

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in order to settle in 1968 in

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. He acted between 1974 and 1987 in four episodes of the television series ''

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''. His film roles included ''

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'', ''

Schtonk! ''Schtonk!'' (subtitled ''Der Film zum Buch vom Führer''; "The film accompanying the ''Führer's'' book") is a 1992 German satirical film which retells the story of the 1983 ''Hitler Diaries'' hoax. It was written and directed by Helmut Dietl. ...

'', and the 2005

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nominated ''

As It Is in Heaven ''As It Is in Heaven'' ( sv, Så som i himmelen) is a 2004 Swedish musical film directed by Kay Pollak and starring Michael Nyqvist and Frida Hallgren. It was a box office hit in Sweden and several other countries. It was nominated for Best Fo ...

''. Crișan acted between 1993 and 1997 and from 1999 until 2006 in the

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. In 2006, he joined the

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theater tour. In 2007 he received in

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the Culture Prize of the Romanian Theatre Union (UNITER). He spoke German, Romanian, Russian, Hebrew, English, Bulgarian, Italian, and Czech and lived in

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. He died in November 2013 in

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Selected filmography

* 1955: ''Și Ilie face sport'' * 1965: ''

Mofturi 1900 ''Mofturi 1900'' is a 1964 Romanian comedic film directed by Jean Georgescu and based on Ion Luca Caragiale's many Moments and Sketches. The sketches used are ''"Diplomatie"'' ("Diplomacy"), ''"Amicii"'' ("Pals"), ''"O lacuna"'' ("A gap"), ''"Bu ...

'' * 1966: ' * 1967: ' – Costică * 1970: '' Rudi Carrell Show'' * 1974: '' Am laufenden Band'' * 1974: ''

– '' * 1975: '' Zwischenmahlzeit'' * 1976: ''

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'' * 1976: ''

– Annoncen-Mord'' * 1978: ' (TV series, 1 episode) * 1986: ''

– '' * 1987: ''

– '' * 1990: ''

'' * 1992: ''

'' * 1993: ''

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'' * 1998: ''

Die Wache ''Die Wache'' is a German weekly police procedural show that was broadcast from 1994 until 2006 by RTL Television. Set in a fictional police station in Cologne, it was modelled on the British series ''The Bill ''The Bill'' is a British p ...

'' * 2001: ''

Polizeiruf 110 ''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the ...

– Seestück mit Mädchen'' * 2002: ''

Großstadtrevier ''Großstadtrevier'' (roughly ''(Big) City Police Station'') is a German television series, broadcast on Germany's Das Erste of the ARD. First aired on 16 December 1986, the show is one of the most popular television series in the country. It fo ...

'' * 2004: ''

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crisan, Mircea 1924 births 2013 deaths People from Maramureș County Romanian comedians Romanian emigrants to Germany German people of German-Romanian descent German male film actors German male television actors Romanian male film actors Romanian male stage actors