Vlatko Dulic was born on April 20, 1943 in Subotica, Serbia, Yugoslavia. He studied acting at the University of Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts, where he graduated from in 1970 but he began acting as early as 1968 at the Gavella theatre in Zagreb. He appeared in a number of supporting roles in Croatian TV series and feature films in a career spanning over four decades, including Vinko Bresan's popular comedies How the War Started on My Island (1996) and Marshal Tito's Spirit (1999).