Acting
Born in Vlădești, Argeș County, he graduated high school in Câmpulung in 1967 and Bucharest's Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 1971. He made his theatrical debut a year before graduating, at the Bulandra Theater, in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp. His screen debut came in Dan Pița's Nunta de piatră (1972); he would later appear in the same director's Filip cel Bun (1975). Other directors with whom he has worked include Alexandru Tatos (Mere roșii, 1975; Secvențe, 1982; and Secretul armei secrete, 1988), Virgil Calotescu (Buletin de București, 1982; and Căsătorie cu repetiție, 1985), Nae Caranfil (Asfalt Tango, 1996; and Filantropica, 2002) and Cătălin Mitulescu (The Way I Spent the End of the World, 2006). In all, he has appeared in more than sixty films. Diaconu worked with Lucian Pintilie both in film (the 1981 De ce trag clopotele, Mitică?) and in theater: Gogol's The Government Inspector at Bulandra, and Shakespeare's As You Like It at the Nottara Theater. Liviu Ciulei hired him at Bulandra in 1972, and he remained there for a decade, before moving on to Nottara. At Bulandra, he appeared in Twelfth Night and The Tempest, both under Ciulei's direction; and in Marin Sorescu's Răceala, directed by Dan Micu. At Nottara, he appeared in Alexander Ostrovsky's The Forest; Ultimul bal, after Liviu Rebreanu's Forest of the Hanged; and Mihai Ispirescu's Într-o dimineață. He became the director of Nottara Theater in 2004, working as such until his resignation in 2011.
O vară cu Mara
1988 · Movie
Reach for the Sky
1990 · Movie
Love Sick
2006 · Movie
Philanthropy
2002 · Movie
Red Apples
1976 · Movie
The Way I Spent the End of the World
2006 · Movie
Oil
1977 · Movie
Asphalt Tango
1996 · Movie
A Smile Of The Sun
1987 · Movie
Poker
2010 · Movie
The Actor and the Savages
1975 · Movie
The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians
1978 · Movie
Ticăloșii
2007 · Movie
The Stone Wedding
1973 · Movie
A Summer Tale
1976 · Movie
Horea
1984 · Movie
O lumină la etajul zece
1984 · Movie
The End of the Night
1982 · Movie
A Lost Letter
1977 · Movie
Farewell, Dear Nela!
1972 · Movie
Căruța cu mere
1983 · Movie
Flames Over Treasures
1988 · Movie
Fox Hunting
1980 · Movie
The Trap
1974 · Movie
Operation 'The Bus'
1978 · Movie
The Secret of the Secret Weapon
1988 · Movie
Before the Silence
1978 · Movie
The Sign of the Serpent
1981 · Movie
The Poseidon Explosion
1973 · Movie
Fii cu ochii pe fericire
1999 · Movie
This Above All
1978 · Movie
To Paris with the Identity Card
2015 · Movie
Dănilă Prepeleac
1996 · Movie
Starting Over
1987 · Movie
The House Between the Fields
1980 · Movie
Kino Caravan
2009 · Movie
Poor Ioanide
1980 · Movie
Together Again
1978 · Movie
The Prophet, the Gold, and the Transylvanians
1978 · Movie
Repeated Wedding
1985 · Movie
Sequences...
1982 · Movie
The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians
1981 · Movie
The Telephone
1992 · Movie
Tache
2007 · Movie
In-laws
2014 · Movie
Bucharest Identity Card
1982 · Movie
Happy End
2006 · Movie
The Firemen's Choir
2000 · Movie
Tragic Vacation
1979 · Movie
Videograms of a Revolution
1992 · Movie
The Computer Testifies
1982 · Movie
Waiting for a Train
1982 · Movie
Why Are the Bells Ringing, Mitica?
1981 · Movie
Happenings with Alexandra
1989 · Movie
Promisses
1985 · Movie
Filip the Kind
1975 · Movie
Toma Caragiu - Momente de aur
2003 · Movie
Shootings Under the Moonlight
1977 · Movie
