Ivo Serdar (19 December 1933 – 21 November 1985) was a popular

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n actor.(23 June 2003)
Gornja Jelenska: Spomen glumcu Ivi Serdaru
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'' (reporting on a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Serdar's birth in the town of

Gornja Jelenska Gornja Jelenska is a village in the municipality Popovača, Sisak-Moslavina County in Croatia. According to the 2001 census, there are 887 inhabitants, in 279 of family households. Gornja Jelenska is located on the south slopes of Moslavačka go ...

, where he had lived) Born in

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(part of

Čazma Čazma is a town in Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia. It is part of Moslavina. Geography Čazma is situated 60 kilometers east of Zagreb and only 30 kilometres from the center of the region - Bjelovar. Čazma is situated on the slopes of ...

) in central

(then

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) in 1933, Serdar graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art of the

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. He was a member of a theater group in

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, and later joined the

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. He played many television roles, including in comedies, and theater roles. His two sons are Ivo Serdar and Ivana Serdar. Among his many television appearances (and by no means his most prominent), he also was a co-host with

Stevo Karapandža Stevo Karapandža ( sr-Cyrl, Стево Карапанџа) born 13th September 1947 is a Yugoslavian, Croatian and Serbian celebrity chef. With Ivo Serdar, and later Oliver Mlakar, he co-hosted the popular Yugoslav weekly cooking show ''Little Se ...

of the popular Yugoslav weekly cooking show ''Male tajne velikih majstora kuhinje'' (Little Secrets of Great Chefs) produced by

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, which started in 1974. Serdar died in Zagreb in 1985 at age 51.

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