Vojislav "Voja" Mirić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Воја Мирић; 7 April 1933 – 23 April 2019) was a Serbian television and film actor most noted for his role as Ahmed Nurudin in the 1974 Yugoslav movie Dervis i smrt (popularly known as Death and the Dervish). [1]
Vojislav "Voja" Mirić was born on 7 April 1933 in Trstenik, central Serbia. [1] [2] His film career spanned over 30 years. His first appearance on television was in the series Veliki poduhvat in 1960. [1] In 1964 he won the "Silver Arena" award as Best Actor in the Pula Film Festival of Yugoslavian Films for the Fadil Hadžić movie Službeni položaj. [2] His most notable performance came as the medieval Bosnian Dervish in the 1974 movie Derviš i smrt ( The Dervish and Death). [1] His last appearance was in Amnezija in 1994. [2]