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During WW2 was imprisoned in Dachau

Father of Ivana Zigon

On February 2003, he received Life Achievement Award "Dobricin prsten" for his roles in Serbian theaters.

He received the Golden Arena for Best Actor at the Pula Film Festival in 1970.

He graduated in 1952, from the Academy for Theatre Arts in Belgrade.

In 1968, at the time of the student demonstrations in Belgrade, Zigon emerged and performed Danton's Death; he played Robespierre for the students. The speech he made while his character was on trial caused the assembled students to explode into enthusiastic applause.

He studied acting in Ljubljana and Leningrad.

Stevo Zigon was a Yugoslav actor, theatre director, and writer.

In 1941, aged 15, as a member of Communist Youth League, he participated in many sabotage actions organized by the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People. In 1942, Zigon was captured by the Italian Army. As a minor, he was spared from execution and spent a year in an Italian military prison in the Province of Ljubljana.

His origins were primarily Italian. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. His family were Slovene immigrants from the Slovenian Littoral, which was under Italian administration. His father was from the village of Volcji Grad near Komen in the Karst region, while his mother came from the Slovene community in Trieste (now in Italy). The family lived in Trieste until the Fascist takeover in 1922, when they fled to the neighboring Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.