Chris Avram

Romanian-Italian film actor

Chris Avram (born Cristea Avram; August 31, 1931 – January 10, 1989) was a Romanian-Italian film actor.

Early life and career

Avram was born in Bucharest, into a family of active communists (his father being a member of the Romanian Communist Party while it was still banned, and his brother, Puiu, a Communist activist). In his youth, he attended a military school, after which he studied law for two years at the University of Bucharest, before being admitted to the Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography. After graduation, he worked for a while as a theater actor in Timișoara, before joining the Nottara Theater [ro] in Bucharest. At a film festival in Moscow, he befriended Marina Vlady, who later went to Romania to star in Mona, l'étoile sans nom [ro; fr], directed by Henri Colpi. With her help, he managed to flee to Paris in 1966, where he remained.^[1] Later he settled in Rome, Italy, where he died of cancer.^[2]^[3]

He was married for a while to Romanian actress Olga Tudorache [ro], with whom he had a son, Alexandru.

Partial filmography

Darclee (1959) - Eugenio Giraldoni
Nu vreau să mă însor [ro] (1960) - the engineer Preda
Poveste sentimentală (1960)
Anotimpuri (1963)
The White Moor (1965) - Spânul
Mona, l'étoile sans nom [ro; fr] (1966) - Grig
Zodia Fecioarei [ro] (1966) - Lut (as Cristea Avram)
Mamaia (1967) - Ștefan
Manon 70 (1968)
Le temps de vivre (1969) - Michel Casno
Delitto al circolo del tennis (1969) - Riccardo Dossi
Il sole nella pelle (1971) - Father
A Bay of Blood^[4] (1971) (aka Twitch of the Death Nerve) - Franco Ventura / Frank Ventura
W Django! (1971) - Capitano Gomez
Variety (1971) - Arturo Robles
I senza Dio (1972) - Sam, detto 'Minnesota Killer'
So Sweet, So Dead (1972) - Professor Casali
Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! (1973) - Zambelli
Cuore (1973)
Number One (1973)
The Violent Professionals (1973) - DelBuono
Servo suo (1973)
I figli di nessuno (1974) - Anselmo Vannini
El amor empieza a medianoche (1974) - Andrés
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974) - Patrick Davenant
Il giudice e la minorenne (1974) - Marco Serra
The Eerie Midnight Horror Show (1974) (aka The Sexorcist) - Mario
Il pavone nero [it] (1975) - Marco / marito-husband
Sfida sul fondo [it] (1976) - Prof. John
Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) - Thomas Quizet
Stangata in famiglia (1976) - Esposito
La malavita attacca... la polizia risponde! (1977) - Prof. Salviati - 'll Principe'
California (1977) - Nelson
La profezia (1978) - Andrea
Il commissario Verrazzano (1978) - Marco Verelli
The Iron Commissioner (1978) - Crivelli
L'étrange monsieur Duvallier (1979, TV Series) - Della Pietra
Star Odyssey (1980) - Shawn
La ripetente fa l'occhietto al preside (1980) - Lino Pastorelli
Giochi erotici nella 3a galassia (1981) - Ceylon
Teste di quoio [it] (1981)
Sogni mostruosamente proibiti (1982)
Vai avanti tu che mi vien da ridere (1982) - lo sceicco Abadjan
Lo studente [it] (1983) - Il barone Mario di Villalba (final film role)

References

^ Furdui, Dumitru (1999). Teatrul in comunism. Librairie Roumaine Antitotalitaire.
^ Lazar, Ioan (August 26, 2011). "Cristea Avram" (in Romanian). Telegraf. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
^ Dobra, N.I. (May 29, 2009). "Eu sunt cel care ți–am pus paharu–n mână" (in Romanian). Tribuna.
^ "CULT Cinema: Bay of Blood / Кровавый Залив (A.k.a. Antefatto, a.k.a. Reazione a Catena, a.k.a. Before the Fact-Ecology of a Crime, a.k.a. Bloodbath, a.k.a. Bloodbath Bay of Death, a.k.a. Carnage, a.k.a. Ecologia del Delitto, a.k.a. The Ecology of a Crime, a.k.a. New House on the Left, a.k.a. Twitch of the Death Nerve) (1971)". Archived from the original on 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2012-09-26.