Timotei Ursu (born January 22, 1939 in Timişoara) is a Romanian film director, television director, writer and journalist.
In 1962 he graduated from Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania with a degree in History and Philology. In 1969 he graduated from the Institute of Dramatic Arts and Cinematography (IATC), in Bucharest.
Ursu was particularly active at Televiziunea Română (Romanian Television) between 1965 and 1985. There he directed documentary films.
From 1986 Ursu lived in New York City. He was mainly active in journalism. He was a contributor to the weekly Romanian newspapers; Lumea Liberǎ Româneascǎ, Lumea Noastrǎ, and New York Magazine. He was the co-founder and writer of Foaie magazine and was correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation from 2000 until 2004. He was editor-in-chief of Lumea Liberǎ Româneascǎ from 2001 to 2004.
Timotei Ursu is the main adviser of the (New York) Dacia Revival Society Inc. He is a member of Romanian Academy of Science, a scholar in Old Romanian History and a contributor of to the magazines: Dacia Magaz Origini and Conexiuni. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Writers' Union of Romania.
His monumental book KOGAION cercetari multedisciplinare la sanctuarele dacice din muntii orastiei (1982-2010) is scheduled to be published in early-2011 by Dacia XXI publishers.
He was the director of the feature films Decolarea (Take Off) 1971, Septembrie (September), 1978 and Al Patrulea Stol (The Fourth Flock), 1979, the co-writer of feature film Decolarea and the writer of Septembrie, Al Patrulea stol, Cursa (1975, directed by Mircea Daneliuc) and Buna seara, Irina (1981, directed by Tudor Marascu).