Dan Bubulici

Dan Vasile Bubulici was born on 4th December 1945 in Zimnicea, an "internal", fluvial port on the Danube river, in the very South of Romania, Teleorman county, but grew-up in Arad, Transilvania, as his father was an Army officer and had to move around with his family. After finishing "Acting" at the Romanian "Theatre and Film Institute" (IATC) Bucharest in 1968, he worked as an actor at the Theatre Arad, Theatre Targu Mures, Theatre "Mihai Eminescu" Botosani till 1978, and Theatre "Fani Tardini" Galati till 1984. In 1986, while filming for the second time for "The Golden Train" in East Berlin, the capital of the German Democratic Republic at that time, he defected "communist system", passing through Hungary to "Jugoslavia", and via Triest, to Italy where he asked for "political asylum" in the United States of America. At the end of the year he settled in Akron, OH, where he started to work as a building painter. After five months his wife and daughter were released from Romania joining him, but they did not get well together, so that they left, by the end of the year for Germany. 1988 he moved to Hollywood, FL, continuing to paint big buildings, as churches, hospitals and schools..., then he made a round trip through South America, settling at the end of 1989 in Germany, where he tried again to live with his family, which did not work, so that after two years they got divorced, and he returned in 1992 again to the States. Starting from 1998 he lived anew in Akron, OH, establishing in Fairlawn two tile companies, the "StoneAge, Inc." and the "Tile Geometry, Inc". He attended the local "Presentation of Our Lord" Romanian Orthodox Church, loved gardening and African Violets. On Saturday 14th April 2012, one day before Orthodox Easter, for which he was preparing, he suffered a heart attack and died, 66 years old, in Fairlawn, OH, USA. He was incinerated, wishing that his ashes be strewn in the Danube Delta, the river on which borders he had seen the life, in his beloved Romania...