Actor, professor and writer Miklós Jancsó has died at 70.

Born on August 12, 1946, in Cluj, he graduated in the same city from the Sámuel Brassai Secondary School in 1964. He earned his acting degree in 1968 from the István Szentgyörgyi Theatre Academy in Târgu Mureş, after which he was hired by the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj, where he remained a member of the company until 2001. He played close to a hundred roles on the stage of the Hungarian Theatre, the most important of which are: Móka (Áron Tamási: Énekes madár/Singing Bird, 1968, d.: Loránd Lohinszky), Vadmalac (Sándor Fodor: Csipike, 1973, d.: Béla Horváth), Beppo (Jenő Heltai: Néma levente, 1982, d.: Júlia Berecky), Duzzog (Mihály Vörösmarty: Csongor és Tünde, 1984, d.: György Harag), Tódor Krisztyián (Mór Jókai: The Man with the Golden Touch, 1984, d.: János Márton, Gábor Dehel), Rosenkrantz (Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1987, d.: Gábor Tompa), Nae (Caragiale: Stormy night, 1988, r.: Gábor Tompa), Dr. Bálint Szakolczai (Jenő Heltai: Naftalin, 1990, d.: Gábor Tompa), Államtitkár (János Székely: Mórok, 1991, d.: Gábor Tompa), Farkas Kovacsóczy (László Marton: Nagyratörő, 1992, d.: Miklós Parászka), Tábornok (Ervin Lázár: Bab Berci kalandjai, 1992, d.: István Mózes), Peter Quince (Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1992, d.: Gábor Tompa), (Andor Szilágyi: Leander és Lenszirom, 1993, d.: Gábor Czeizel), The Player (Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, 1994, d.: Kövesdy István).

Since 1996, he has taught speech at Babeş-Bolyai University and the Protestant Theology of Cluj, while between 2001 and 2003 he has organized the introduction of speech classes within all of the Hungarian lines of Babeş-Bolyai University. In 2004, he has earned his PhD degree with a thesis entitled: Csíky Gergely színpadi világa/The Dramatic Works of Gergely Csíky.

Since 1989, he has published regularly, with the humorous, short prose being his favorite genre. His scenes and one-act plays written for stage have been performed also on the Hungarian stages of Transylvania. He has been a member of the Romanian Writers’ Association since 2008. In 2010 he was awarded the Sándor Reményik Award. In 2013, he, alongside his wife, Rozália Rekita, were honored with the Gróf Miklós Bánffy Award offered by the Hungarian Cultural Association of Transylvania (EMKE), for their outstanding achievements in the performing arts and their devoted work in popularizing Hungarian culture.

May he rest in peace!