Grigore Grigoriu
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{{Infobox person
| name = Grigore Grigoriu
| image = Grigore Grigoriu - 2 (1976). (10753931594).jpg
| caption = Grigoriu in 1976
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1941|04|04}}
| birth_place = Causeni, Moldovan SSR, Soviet Union
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2003|12|20|1941|04|04}}
| death_place = Palanca, Moldova
| birth_name = Grigore Petrovich Grigoriu
| spouse = Ekaterina Botnaryuk
| children = Trayan
Octavian
| years_active =1950–1989
}}
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Grigore Grigoriu (4 April 1941 – 20 December 2003) was an actor from the Moldova, known especially for interpreting the role of horse thief, Roma Loiko Zobar from the movie "Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven" (1975).{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|ISBN=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=271–272}}[http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/gregore_grigoriu/ Gregore Grigoriu]. peoples.ru
Biography
Grigore Petrovich Grigoriu was born in 1941 in Căușeni, Moldova. In school, Grigore played in the theater, practiced sports, including boxing. After graduation, he worked briefly as a porter at a railway.
Grigore Grigoriu began his artistic career in the Bălți National Theatre where he worked for six years, from 1959 to 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.moldovenii.md/ru/section/355/content/3078|title=Бельцкий Национальный театр им. Василе Александри|publisher=moldovenii}} Subsequently, he worked for five years in the TV-theater "Dialogue", after 1970 at the Republican Theater of the Young Spectator "Luceafarul".{{cite web|url=http://www.moldovenii.md/ru/people/98|publisher=moldovenii|title=Григориу Григоре}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/tabor_uhodit_v_nebo/|publisher=VokrugTV|title=Табор уходит в небо}}
His first film role was Sawa Milchan in the 1966 film by Emil Loteanu, Red Glades. Grigore Grigoriu acted in Russia, Romania, Germany, Azerbaijan, and Ukraine, performed more than seventy roles in film and theater. The most famous of his roles is Loiko Zobar in the film Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven.
Grigore Grigoriu was killed in a car accident on December 20, 2003 near the Moldovan village of Palanca.{{cite web|url=http://www.puls.md/ru/content/%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%85-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE|publisher=puls.md|title=Сразу два фильма снимает Октавиан Григориу — о своем отце и его режиссере|access-date=23 January 2017|archive-date=6 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161916/http://www.puls.md/ru/content/%D0%BE-%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%85-%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE|url-status=dead}} The actor is buried in the Central (Armenian) cemetery in Chișinău.{{cite web|url=http://www.kp.md/daily/26519/3535473/|publisher=Komsomolskaya Pravda|title=Жительница Кишинева сдала склеп на Армянском кладбище в аренду цветочникам|author=Леонид РЯБКОВ}}
Partial filmography
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- Rasuna valea (1950) - Cupletist
- Red Glades (1966) - Savva Milciu
- Gorkie zyorna (1966)
- Marianna (1967)
- Annychka (1968) - Andrei
- Bratya Karamazovy (1969)
- Ofitser zapasa (1972) - Barbu
- Lăutarii (1972) - Radu Negostin
- Zemlya, do vostrebovaniya (1973) - Toscano
- Posledniy gaiduk (1973)
- Queen of the Gypsies (1975) - Loiko Zobar
- Night Over Chile (1977) - Manuel Valdivia
- Ich will euch sehen (1978) - Kommissar Ardatow
- A Hunting Accident (1978) - Polikhroniy Kalidis
- Anton the Magician (1978) - Sergeant
- Agent of the Secret Service (1978)
- Pugachev (1979) - Chika Zarubin
- Qariba adam (1979) - Vakil Ahmad
- Ya khochu pet (1979)
- The Gadfly (1980)
- Na Granatovykh ostrovakh (1981)
- Where Has Love Gone? (1981) - Viktor
- Romance with Amelie (1982) - Panzerkommandant
- U chertova logova (1982) - Gruya
- Naydi na schastye podkovu (1983)
- Anna Pavlova (1983, TV Series) - Mikhail Mordkin
- Kak stat znamenitym (1984)
- The Morning Star (1987)
- Maria și Mirabella în Tranzistoria (1989)
- Vdvoyom na grani vremeni (1989) - (final film role)
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References
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External links
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- [http://www.cinema.art.md/person/81/index.html Web-enciclopedia filmului moldovenesc – Grigore Grigoriu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605221703/http://www.cinema.art.md/person/81/index.html |date=5 June 2008 }}
- [http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/5654/bio/ Grigore Grigoriu's Biography, Filmography]
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Category:People from Căușeni District
Category:Moldovan male film actors
Category:Soviet male film actors
Category:Honoured Artists of the Moldavian SSR
Category:Road incident deaths in Moldova
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