Pero Kvrgić (4 March 1927 – 23 December 2020) was a Croatian actor.

Career

Kvrgić was born in

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father and

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mother. He trained as an actor in the schools of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb (HNK) after

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. He joined HNK in 1949, staying until he co-founded the Gavella Drama Theatre in 1953. He returned to HNK in 1986 before he retired in 1988. He continued to act post retirement. His long-standing play ''Stilske vježbe'', a Croatian adaptation of ''

Exercises in Style ''Exercises in Style'' (), written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man (a zazou) with a l ...

'', is well known and has been produced since 1970, starring Kvrgić and Lela Margitić.

References

1927 births 2020 deaths Croatian male stage actors Yugoslav male stage actors 20th-century Croatian male actors 21st-century Croatian male actors Croatian people of Serbian descent Croatian people of Austrian descent Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery {{Croatia-actor-stub