Anton Radichev

Anton Radichev is a Bulgarian stage and film actor whose career spans the National Theatre, more than forty feature films and one of the best-known comedy programmes on Bulgarian television. He graduated in acting from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1974 and the same year joined the company of the Ivan Vazov National Theatre in Sofia. He has also performed on the stage of Theatre 199.

His theatre work includes Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun, Yordan Radichkov's Commotion, in which he played Ivan Gamasha, the role of the Hadzhi in Ivan Vazov's Hashove, and productions of Uncles, Duel and January. For his performance as Petleto (the Little Rooster) in Radichkov's An Attempt at Flying he won the acting award at the Sixth National Review of Bulgarian Drama and Theatre in 1979. His repertoire also took in classics such as The Cherry Orchard, The Marriage of Figaro and Endgame, as well as Galaxy of Generations.

On screen he has appeared in more than forty feature films, among them Manoeuvres on the Fifth Floor, Orchestra Without a Name, Under the Yoke, Hotel Central, Auction, Elegy and A Cricket in the Ear. His television theatre work includes Vazov's Office Seekers and Is He a Journalist?, Bulgakov's The Mad Jourdain, The Nephew by Pancho Panchev and Diogenes by Vladimir Konstantinov.

For a wide television audience Radichev is above all one of the faces of Klub NLO, the comedy programme in which he took part from 1996 to 2004. He later appeared in the Nova Television sitcom Etazhna Sobstvenost (2011). He also lent his voice to the Bulgarian version of the Disney and Pixar film Cars (2006), as Doc Hudson and Ramone.

Music has been a parallel line in his career. He has recorded many songs, some of them for the Golden Blackbird festival, and in 2002 he released the album Kasa Mi Se Sartseto (My Heart Is Breaking), with lyrics by Zhivko Kolev. In 2009 he stood for parliament for the LIDER party in Sofia's 23rd constituency. He has been a member of the Union of Bulgarian Film Makers since 1990, and in 2023 he received the IKAR award for outstanding contribution to Bulgarian theatre.