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Danilo Stojkovi , commonly nicknamed Bata , was a Serbian theatre, television and film actor. Stojkovis numerous comedic portrayals of the small man fighting the system made him popular with Serbian and exYugoslav audiences, most of them coming in collaborations with either director Slobodan ijan or scriptwriter Duan Kovaevi, or both.

Belgrade born and bred Stojkovi, a wellknown theatre actor by the mid1960s, started his film career with the 1964 feature Izdajnik . A string of TV and minor film roles ensued, with the most important ones coming in guise of being a father figure to the main protagonist uvar plae u zimskom periodu , Pas koji je voleo vozove being the most recognizable ones as well as the part in critically wellreceived Majstor i Margarita . He also fulfilled the fatherly role in an immensely popular TV show Grlom u jagode. The show originally aired in 1975 and kept finding its audience through numerous reruns in the 1980s and the 1990s. Most notably, he almost stole the show as the minor antagonist in Goran Markovis urban classic Nacionalna klasa do 750 cm .

Source: Wikipedia