Mihajlo "Bata" Paskaljević (Михајло "Бата" Паскаљевић) (January 14, 1923, Požarevac

Požarevac

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, Serbia

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, Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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 — January 26, 2004) was a Serbian stage, film, and television actor

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, permanent member of the Belgrade Drama Theatre since 1950.

He was born to the family of a wealthy Greek Zoe Paskal. He spent his childhood and youth years in Kruševac

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.

Most of his stage and film career were comic roles. His first dramatic role was that of the father of a protagonist Olgica in the 1987 film Reflections by Goran Marković, for which he received the award for the best male supporting role at Niš Film Festival.