Toma Caragiu

Actor

Date of birth : 08/21/1925

Date of death : 03/04/1977

City of birth : Ploiesti, Prahova, Romania

Toma Caragiu was one of the best Romanian actors, playing either comedy or drama, but having a special attraction to the comic movies. He tragically died during the earthquake in Bucharest in 1977, being trapped under the remains of the block of flats he lived in, which collapsed. His body was found days later. An unexpected death for the man who always succeeded to make the oppressed Romanians in Ceausescu's communist era laugh.