[1] He is an actor, documentarist, playwright, screenwriter and novelist,[2][3][4] currently living and working in Zagreb, where he became a member of the Croatian National Theater.
[1][2] Early on in his acting career, his roles in theatre included playing Shakespeare's Hamlet, Trepliov in Chekhov's The Seagull and Gregers in Ibsen's The Wild Duck.
[2][1] Bukvić also established himself as an actor on TV and film in various Yugoslav productions, and his acting engagement included titles such as Kazališni život ili smrt, a TV adaptation from 1981 of eponymous crime story written by Pavao Pavličić,[5] Karmine in 1978, a drama by the Croatian film, theater and television director Ivan Hetrich,[6] Sudite me in 1978, directed by Ivan Hetrich on the script by Nedjeljko Fabri,[7] Prijeđi rijeku ako možeš in 1977, a TV drama directed by Petar Veček written on the basis of true events from life of couple of drug addicts, and in which Bukvić partnered with Mira Furlan in the leading roles.
[9][10] His drama Children of CNN (original in Bosnian: Djeca sa CNN-a) was made into a feature film, which he co-written with his daughter Aida, who also directed it.
[4] An oldest, a daughter Aida Bukvić, is a theatre and film director and associate professor at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb.