Dan Nuțu

Birthday: 1944-03-17
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Gender: Male
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Dan Nuțu is a Romanian stage and film actor and producer, also known for his involvement in documentary filmmaking and film education.

A graduate of the Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in 1966, Nuțu began his career at the Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest. He rose to prominence in cinema with his role in Sunday at Six (Duminică la ora 6, 1965), the debut feature of director Lucian Pintilie, where he played a young communist underground activist. Throughout the late 1960s, he became emblematic of a new type of screen presence in Romanian cinema—intense, rebellious, and emotionally vulnerable. Film critic Tudor Caranfil famously described him as “the tough-yet-vulnerable face of 1960s Romanian cinema.”

He went on to appear in notable films such as Meanders (*Meandre*, 1967) and The Mornings of a Sensible Boy (*Diminețile unui băiat cuminte*, 1967), consolidating his image as a nonconformist youth figure during a transformative period in Romanian filmmaking.

In 1979, Nuțu left Romania and settled in the United States, where he worked as a taxi driver while remaining loosely connected to the film and theater world, mostly in minor or background roles. After the fall of communism, he gradually reconnected with the Romanian film industry. Beginning in 2005, he became involved in the **Aristoteles Workshop**, an international documentary filmmaking program supported by ARTE and TVR, mentoring and supporting new generations of documentary filmmakers.

Today, Dan Nuțu remains a cult figure of the Romanian New Wave’s precursor generation—an actor whose brief but striking 1960s film career left a lasting imprint on Romanian cinema history.

Credits

	Year	Title	Character
	2022-01-28	Man and Dog	Marty M.
	2013-05-24	Puzzle	Sabin Vianu
	1987-02-27	Working Girls	George the Cook
	1982-06-25	Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!	Angelo, der Wahnsinnige
	1980-04-14	Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love	Lieutenant
	1979-01-01	The Hope
	1979-01-01	Ora zero	Jorj
	1978-07-23	Melodii, melodii
	1978-01-01	Astray	Adrian
	1977-12-12	Shootings Under the Moonlight	Luca Aron
	1977-01-01	Steps in the Sky	Traian
	1976-10-25	A Summer Tale	Mihai
	1975-06-24	Postcards with Wildflowers	Victor
	1974-03-25	The Blue Gates of the City	tunarul Păun
	1974-02-18	Beyond the Sands	Niculai / Ion Mohreanu
	1973-11-05	The Hundred Lei Bill	Petre
	1972-12-11	Bariera	ucenicul Treispemii
	1972-06-30	Farewell, Dear Nela!
	1971-08-21	The Siege	Valer
	1970-02-03	Too Little for Such a Big War
	1970-01-01	Sick Animals	Paul Sucuturdean
	1969-02-24	Then the Legend was Born	Mitu
	1967-01-16	The Mornings of a Sensible Youth	Vive
	1966-01-01	Meanders	Gelu, Constantin's son
	1965-03-16	Sunday at Six	Radu