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Radu Beligan
Actor
Born: December 14, 1918, Commune Galbeni, Bacau County Married, four children Studies
- 1937-1938 - studies Law and Philosophy at Bucharest University
- Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, professor Lucia Sturdza Bulandra
Artistic Career
- Debut at "Munca si Lumina" Theatre (Work and Light), in Bucharest
- Plays
at "Alhambra" and National Theatre in Bucharest
- 1950-1965 - Professor at the Institute for Theatre and Film, Bucharest
- 1961-1969 - Founder and Director of the Theatre of Comedy, Bucharest
- 1969-1990 - Director of the National Theatre, Bucharest
- over 80 parts in theter and over 30 in film, numerous staging
Famous Parts
- in the Romanian dramaturgy: Caragiale, Delavrancea, Camil Petrescu, Musatescu, Mircea Stefanescu,Victor Ion Popa, Victor Eftimiu, Sebastian,
Ciprian, Baranga, Mirodan
- in the foreign dramaturgy: Shakespeare, Goldoni, Gogol, Cehov, Shaw, Gorki, Camus, Jules Romains, Ionesco, Anouilh,
Durrenmatt, Albee, Shaffer, Susskind, Neil Simon, Umberto Eco
Filmography
- O noapte furtunoasă (1943)
- Visul unei nopţi de iarnă (1946)
- Răsună valea (1949)
- Bulevardul “Fluieră Vântu” - scurt metraj (1950)
- Lanţul slăbiciunilor (1952)
- O scrisoare pierdută (1953) - Agamemnon Dandanache
- Afacerea Protar (1955) - Profesorul Andronic
- Directorul nostru (1960)
- Bădăranii (1960)
- Celebrul 702 (1962) - Cheryl
- Lanterne cu amintiri (1963)
- Paşi spre lună (1964)
- Castelanii (1966)
- Şeful sectorului suflete (1967) - Gore
- Explozia (1972)
- Întoarcerea lui Magellan (1973)
- Agentul straniu (1974)
- Tată de duminică (1975)
- Singurătatea florilor (1976)
- Cuibul salamandrelor (1976)
- Instanţa amână pronunţarea (1976)
- Premiera (1976)
- Braţele Afroditei (1978)
- Aurel Vlaicu (1977)
- Iancu Jianu, zapciul (1980)
- Reţeaua „S” (1980)
- Iancu Jianu, haiducul (1981)
- Întoarcere la dragostea dintâi (1981)
- Galax, omul păpuşă (1983)
- Horea (1984)
- Cui i-e frică de Virginia Woolf? - film TV (1995) - George
- Trahir (1993) - Vlad
- După-amiaza unui torţionar (2001) - Profesorul
Affiliations
- Acting President (1971) and Honorary Life President of the International Theatre Institute (1979)
- Member of the International Theatre Cartel, together with Jean-Louis Barrault, Peter Brook, Georgio Strehler, Jan Kott, Edward Albee, etc.
- Co-president,
with Yehudi Menuhin, of the International Theatre and Music Festivals organized by UNESCO (1971-1978)
- Subscriber of the Artists' Appeal for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki, 1985), together with Woody Allen, , Simone de Beauvoir, Harry Belafonte, Leonard Bernstein, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Dario Fo, Gunther
Grass, Norman Mailer, Alberto Moravia, Meryl Streep, Liv Ullman, etc.
- Member of the Academy “LE MUSE”, Florence
- Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (2004)
Publishing Activity
Three volumes of essays:
1968 - “Pretexte si subtexte” (Pretexts and Understatements)
1978 - “Luni, Marti, Miercuri...” (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday...)
2000 - “Note de insomniac” (Notes of an insomniac)
Memoirs (1978)
Numerous translations and adaptations from the French, English and Italian dramaturgy
Orders, distinctions and titles
- 1953 - Artist Emeritus
- 1962 - People's Artist
- 1980 - Prize of the Academy “LE MUSE”, Florence
- 1995-1996 - Prize of UNITER Gala – Trophy DIONYSOS
- 1997 - Prize of the Romanian Academy
- 1998 - Prize of Tofan Foundation
- 1998 - Prize " 14 JUILLET" awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France
- 1999 - Trophy "EUGENE IONESCO"
- 2000 - Prize of "Flacara" Revue
- 2001 - Grand Officer of the National Order for Faithful Sevice, Romania
- 2002 - Officer of the National Order of Honorary Legion, France
- 2002 - Prize of the revue „Moftul Român"
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy of Arts "George Enescu",
Bucharest
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the National Academy of Theater and Cinema Arts
„I.L. Caragiale", Bucharest
- Honorary Citizen of Bucharest, Iasi and Bacau Municipalities
- 2003 - Trophy „România 2000"
- 2003 - Grand Prize for Thetre awarded by the Romanian Government
- 2004 - awarded the Order "Yugoslavian Flag with the Golden Star and
Necklace"
- 2008 - Prize of Excellence at the XVI edition of UNITER Prizes
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