Mircea Crișan

Mircea Crișan
Crișan in 1964
Born	(1924-08-08)August 8, 1924 Maramureș County, Romania
Died	November 22, 2013(2013-11-22) (aged 89) Düsseldorf, Germany
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1970-2004

Mircea Crișan (8 August 1924–22 November 2013) was considered to be one of the greatest Romanian comedians and comedic actors.^[1]

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 and 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.^{[citation needed]}

He died in November 2013 in Düsseldorf.^[4]

Selected filmography[]

• 1970: Rudi Carrell Show
• 1974: Am laufenden Band
• 1974: Tatort –  [de]
• 1975:
• 1976: Derrick
• 1976: Tatort – Annoncen-Mord
• 1978:  [de] (TV series, 1 episode)
• 1986: Tatort –  [de]
• 1987: Tatort –  [de]
• 1990: Werner – Beinhart!
• 1992: Schtonk!
• 1993: Die Männer vom K3
• 1998: Die Wache
• 2001: Polizeiruf 110 – Seestück mit Mädchen
• 2002: Großstadtrevier
• 2004: As It Is in Heaven

References[]

External links[]

• Mircea Crișan at IMDb