Stevo Žigon

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Stevo Žigon (Serbian Cyrillic: Стево Жигон) (born 8 December 1926 in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes died 28 December 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia, Serbia-Montenegro) was a famous Serbian actor, theatre director, and writer.

In 1941, as a member of Communist Youth League, he participated in many sabotage actions. In 1942, Žigon was captured and imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp (number: 61185), where he learned German. Because of his knowledge of the German language and manners, he often played cynical and cold German officers. Of those roles the best known is Krüger, chief of Belgrade Gestapo, in popular 1970s TV series Otpisani and Povratak otpisanih.

He studied acting in Ljubljana and Leningrad. He graduated in 1952 in very good class of Academy for theatre art in Belgrade. On faculty for acting in Belgrade he was one of the first assistants.

In 1968, at the time of the student demonstrations in Belgrade, Žigon emerged in to the yard of Faculty for Philosophiy, and performance of Dante's Death where he played Maximilien Robespierre and his speech while on trial made the student audience explode with enthusiasm.

He was a communist, Russophile and an atheist. His wife Jelena and daughter Ivana are actreses.