Born in
Huși, he was raised in
northern Bukovina, but had to move to
Bucharest after the region was
annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940. In the early 1950s he was married to actress
Valeria Gagialov, but some strange circumstances involving his mother (who tried to poison his wife) led to divorce. Afterwards he was married for five years to actress Margareta-Yvonne Butuc (later known as
Marga Barbu); after divorcing her in 1959, he married Adina Georgescu in 1963, but this marriage also did not last long. In 1972 he found employment at the Hungarian Theatre in
Târgu Mureș, where he met and later married actress Ildiko Codrescu. ==Filmography==