{{Short description|Croatian actor (born 1950)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Zlatko Vitez | image = | image_size = | office = [[Ministry of Culture (Croatia)|Minister of Culture]] | term_start = 18 October 1994 | term_end = 7 November 1995 | prime_minister = [[Nikica Valentić]] | predecessor = [[Vesna Girardi-Jurkić]] | successor = [[Božo Biškupić]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|6|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Varaždin]], [[Socialist Republic of Croatia|PR Croatia]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|FPR Yugoslavia]] (modern [[Croatia]]) | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Croatian Democratic Union]] | alma_mater = [[University of Zagreb]]<br><small>([[Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb|Academy of Dramatic Art]])</small> | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = | awards = {{plainlist | style = font-size: smaller; | * [[File:Ribbon of an Order of Danica Hrvatska with the face of Marko Marulić.png|20px]] [[Order of Danica Hrvatska]] }} }}
'''Zlatko Vitez''' (born 22 June 1950) is a [[Croatia]]n theatre and film actor. He also served as the Croatian [[Ministry of Culture (Croatia)|Minister of Culture]] in the period between October 1994 and November 1995 in the [[Cabinet of Nikica Valentić]].
Vitez was born in [[Varaždin]] and graduated from the [[Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb|Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art]] in 1972. He went on to appear in about a hundred theatre productions at several prominent theatres, including the [[Gavella Drama Theatre]] and the [[Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb]].<ref name="histrion">{{cite web|url=http://www.histrion.hr/?p=zlatko_vitez&m=p&f=index|title=Zlatko Vitez|publisher=Glumačka družina Histrion|language=hr|access-date=13 December 2010}}</ref>
Between the mid-1970s and late 1990s he also appeared in a number of Croatian television and feature films,<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0900007/|title=Zlatko Vitez|work=[[Internet Movie Database]]|access-date=13 December 2010}}</ref> most notably the leading role in [[Zvonimir Berković]]'s 1985 film ''[[Love Letters with Intent]]'' (''Ljubavna pisma s predumišljajem'').
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0900007}} * [http://www.histrion.hr/?p=zlatko_vitez&m=p&f=index Zlatko Vitez biography] {{in lang|hr}}
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