Florian Pittiș

Florian Pittiș
Born(1943-10-04)4 October 1943
Died5 August 2007(2007-08-05) (aged 63)
Bucharest, Romania
Resting placeBellu Cemetery, Bucharest
EducationGheorghe Lazăr National College (Bucharest)
Alma materI. L. Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film
AwardsOrder of Cultural Merit [ro]

Florian Pittiș (Romanian: [floriˈan ˈpitiʃ]; 1943–2007) was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.

Biography

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Born in Bucharest, he attended the Gheorghe Lazăr High School in his native city. He then studied at Politehnica University and graduated in 1966 from the Institute of Theatre and Film, class of Radu Beligan.[1] As a young actor he was hired at one of the best theatres in Bucharest, the Bulandra Theatre, where he worked with directors such as Andrei Șerban, Liviu Ciulei, and Alexandru Tocilescu.[2] In the early 1970s, he studied in Paris with the well-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau.

In 1992, Pittiș was one of the founding members of the band Pasărea Colibri. In 1998, he became the director of Radio Romania Tineret, known as Radio3Net since 2004, the only Romanian radio station that broadcasts exclusively on the Internet.

Great admirer of Bob Dylan, he had masterfully translated and adapted some of Dylan's songs: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Death is Not the End, Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, Mr. Tambourine Man, Rainy Day Women#12 & 35, She Belongs to Me, Silvio.

Pittiș had a very active life and he was loved both by his own generation and by the youth. Emblematic for his image was his long hair, his informal wear, and his habit of smoking "Carpați", a brand of filterless cigarettes.[3][4][5][6] He was equally appreciated for his very particular voice,[7] as a singer, on stage, and as a voice-over in television programs. He was called many superlative and admirative names such as "the prophet of the blue-jeans generation" and "the most beautiful voice in the Romanian theater".[8]

In the Benelux and Norway he is remembered for his role as the Parrot in the 1976 Romanian-Soviet-French co-production children musical movie "Ma-ma", The English title of the movie was called "Rock'n Roll Wolf", it aired on Dutch Television in 1980, and it is known as "Med Grimm og Gru" in Norway, where the film first aired in 1983. For being popular in his own country he received an offer from Walt Disney Pictures in 1993, and provides the voice of Winnie-the-Pooh for the Romanian version of the series, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, being among the first actors in the country to dub a Disney series in Romanian.[9]

Grave of Pittiș at Bellu Cemetery

On 30 July 2007, Pittiș was admitted in serious condition at the Fundeni Oncology Institute in Bucharest, where he died a week later. He was buried by the Actor's Alley in the city's Bellu Cemetery.[10]

Stage activity

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As a director

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Music

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Astăzi despre: rebelul pe care nici partidul nu a reușit să-l tundă: Florian Pittiș – extrem de îndrăgit actor de teatru și film, regizor, traducător, interpret de muzică folk, vocea consacrată a emisiunii "Teleenciclopedia"". Ziarul de Vrancea (in Romanian). 5 August 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  2. ^ "Romania mourns folk hero Pittis". BBC News. 7 August 2007.
  3. ^ Geambașu, Cristian (August 2007), Moștenirea lui Pittiș, Gazeta Sportului, retrieved 8 September 2008 "Pittiș fuma la greu la Carpați-fără..." ("Pittiș was smoking heavily Carpați without filter...")
  4. ^ Roseti, Roxana; Silvana Chiujdea (9 January 2007), Inima de la taur, Jurnalul Național "Profetul generației in blue-jeans ca element distinctiv se găsește fumul de Carpați" ("Florian Pittis-the prophet of the blue jeans generation, having as a distinctive element the smoke of Carpați [cigarettes]")
  5. ^ Pittis inseamna plete, blugi, tigari Carpati si rock, Evenimentul Zilei, 13 August 2006, retrieved 8 September 2008 "Pittiș inseamna plete, blugi, țigări Carpați și rock" ("Pittiș means long hair, blue jeans, Carpați cigarettes, and rock")
  6. ^ Pagina de suflete, Jurnalul Național, 22 April 2005, archived from the original on 2 April 2012, retrieved 8 September 2008 );"Te miri când îl vezi pe Pittiș fumând Carpați fără filtru, fumător pătimaș, nu se fandosește cu țigara, chiar o stoarce de fiecare moleculă de nicotină." ("You have to wonder when you look at Pittiș smoking filterless Carpați, a passionate/ardent smoker, he does not put on airs with his cigarette, rather he squeezes it of its each and every molecule of nicotine.")
  7. ^ (in Romanian) "Florian Pittiș: O voce de neuitat, un spirit liber, un idol cu plete" Archived 12 September 2012 at archive.today, ProTV, 6 August 2008
  8. ^ Lupu, Gabriela; Lupu, Andreea (6 August 2007). "A murit Florian Pittiș. Era tînăr, doamnă". Cotidianul (in Romanian). Archived 9 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Network și HBO invață românește la sincronul eroilor de desene animate". Ziarul Financiar.
  10. ^ "Florian Pittiş a fost înmormântat pe Aleea Actorilor la Cimitirul Bellu" (in Romanian). Antena 3 CNN. 8 August 2007. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
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