Silviu Stănculescu

Silviu Stănculescu (24 January 1932 – 23 October 1998) was a Romanian stage and screen actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1960 to 1998.

Born in Timișoara, he graduated in 1956 from the I.L. Caragiale Institute of Theatre and Film Arts (IATC) in Bucharest. On the theatre stage, he played in adaptations of Meșterul Manole, The Charterhouse of Parma, The Rainmaker, La Machine à écrire, and Harap Alb. From 1981 to 1990 he was the director of the Comedy Theatre of Bucharest from Bucharest.

He married Corina Stănescu (née Pîrvulescu), whom he had met while in high school in Caracal. The two had a daughter, Rodica (1962), who died at age 4, and later another daughter, Catrinel (1968), and a son, Radu (1970).

Stănculescu died of leukemia at Victor Babeș Hospital in Bucharest, at age 66. He was buried in the city's Bellu Cemetery, on the Artists' Lane. Streets in Târgoviște and Voluntari are named after him.