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 jewish father and Romanian mother, as Mauriciu Kraus. 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

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. 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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Olympia in

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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!'', and the 2005

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nominated '' As It Is in Heaven''. Crișan acted between 1993 and 1997 and from 1999 until 2006 in the

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. In 2006, he joined the Pumuckl 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'' * 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: '' Schtonk!'' * 1993: '' Die Männer vom K3'' * 1998: '' Die Wache'' * 2001: ''

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– Seestück mit Mädchen'' * 2002: '' Großstadtrevier'' * 2004: '' As It Is in Heaven''

References

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* * {{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