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Dan Nuțu

Dan Nuțu

Born: 1944-03-17

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.

Filmography
Man and Dog poster
Man and Dog
2022 • Marty M.
Puzzle poster
Puzzle
2013 • Sabin Vianu
Working Girls poster
Working Girls
1987 • George the Cook
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob! poster
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!
1982 • Angelo, der Wahnsinnige
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love poster
Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love
1980 • Lieutenant
The Hope poster
The Hope
1979
Ora zero poster
Ora zero
1979 • Jorj
Melodii, melodii poster
Melodii, melodii
1978
Astray poster
Astray
1978 • Adrian
Shootings Under the Moonlight poster
Shootings Under the Moonlight
1977 • Luca Aron
Steps in the Sky poster
Steps in the Sky
1977 • Traian
A Summer Tale poster
A Summer Tale
1976 • Mihai
Postcards with Wildflowers poster
Postcards with Wildflowers
1975 • Victor
The Blue Gates of the City poster
The Blue Gates of the City
1974 • tunarul Păun
Beyond the Sands poster
Beyond the Sands
1974 • Niculai / Ion Mohreanu
The Hundred Lei Bill poster
The Hundred Lei Bill
1973 • Petre
Bariera poster
Bariera
1972 • ucenicul Treispemii
Farewell, Dear Nela! poster
Farewell, Dear Nela!
1972
No Image
The Siege
1971 • Valer
Too Little for Such a Big War poster
Too Little for Such a Big War
1970
Sick Animals poster
Sick Animals
1970 • Paul Sucuturdean
Then the Legend was Born poster
Then the Legend was Born
1969 • Mitu
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth poster
The Mornings of a Sensible Youth
1967 • Vive
Meanders poster
Meanders
1966 • Gelu, Constantin's son
Sunday at Six poster
Sunday at Six
1965 • Radu