Cornel Coman

Actor
Born: 14.06.1936 in Vidra (Vrancea)
Died: 16.01.1981 in Bucharest

Graduate of the ”Unirea” High School in Focsani and of the “I.L.Caragiale” Theatre and Cinema Institute (class of 1963, professor Constantin Moruzan). Class mate with emblematic figures of the Romanian screen and stage such as Irina Petrescu, Ștefan Iordache, Valentin Uritescu, Grigore Gonta, Serban Cantacuzino etc. He is assigned to the State Theatre in Brasov and becomes ( on a contest basis) a member of the team of the prestigious Theatre “ L.S. Bulandra” in Bucharest, in 1963. He is one of the “usuals” actors of film director Malvina Urşianu.
“Concentration, concision, consistency=Cornel Coman. His presence is composed , quiet even throughout a monologue, as words come within the inner of this golden triplet. A character from nowadays as well as that of 400 years ago, Cornel Coman fully respects his own character, unmistakable, irreplaceable” (Eva Sîrbu,Cinema Magazine, 1980)

Trivia

In order not to be expelled from school, during the communist years, because of his father who had been a sort of Romanian kulak, he is adopted by his grandfather, Teodor Coman.
He tries himself to the admission examination at the Letters Faculty but is rejected. Learns to play the violin and the contrabass.
In 1957 he tries his forces at the Theatre and Cinema Institute but is rejected too. He follows the courses of a topography school. Returns to Focsani and is hired in the town’s Philarmonic.
He passes the admission exam at the Theatre and Film Institute in 1959.
In 1971 he meets Maria Letitia Nicolescu, attorney, whom he marries in 1974.Their godparents are Paul Anghel, writer and his wife Malvina Urșianu, film director.
He seems to have had a love affair with actress Margareta Pogonat, his partner from Shadowed Path.

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