danilo stojković (; 11 august 1934 – 16 march 2002), commonly nicknamed bata (бата), was a serbian theatre, television and film actor. stojković's numerous comedic portrayals of the "small man fighting the system" made him popular with serbian and ex-yugoslav audiences, most of them coming in collaborations with either director slobodan šijan or scriptwriter dušan kovačević, or both.