
Jiří Kodet
Born: 1937-12-06
Place of Birth: Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Biography
He came from a very old Czech theatrical family of Steimar and artistic family of Kodet, he was the son of Czech actress Jiřina Steimar and sculptor Jan Kodet. After her parents divorced, her mother married Jaroslav Juhan, a car racer, but he emigrated. This had an impact on the further studies of Jiří Kodet, who was expelled from the grammar school and was not admitted to the DAMU until the second time. He left the DAMU before graduating and began his theatre career at the East Bohemian Theatre in Pardubice (1961-1962). In 1962-64 he was in the Artistic Military Ensemble, based in Pohořelec, Prague. With this ensemble he toured a large part of the former Czechoslovakia. His future colleagues from the Drama Club, Jiří Hrzán, Jiří Zahajský and Petr Skoumal, were in the ensemble with him. In Pardubice, he was sought out by Jan Kačer, who was assembling a troupe for the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava. Kodet worked in Ostrava from 1963-1965, and from 1966 he played at the Prague Drama Club, where some of the members of the Ostrava ensemble moved. In 1991 he became a member of the drama company of the National Theatre in Prague. During his lifetime he played a number of small and episodic roles in film and television, but it was not until the end of his life that he was able to play major roles, mainly thanks to director Jan Hřebejk, who cast him in his film Divided We Fall, and earlier also in Cosy Dens, which was his most successful film ever. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jiří Kodet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

Alarm in the Clouds

Hearty Greetings from the Globe

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde

Chance

Accumulator 1

The Jester and the Queen

Dita Saxová

Síť na bludičku

The Day That Shook the World

Morgiana

Buttoners

Egyptologové

Lekce

All My Good Countrymen

Assassination

Closely Watched Trains

The Medal

No Magic from Tomorrow

Sokolovo

Papilio

The Apple Game

Higher Principle

Sentiment

Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft

Cosy Dens

Hrozba

The Octopuses from the Second Floor

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

The Death of a Talented Cobbler

My Daughter's Operation

Angel in a Devil's Body

Můj hříšný muž

Bulldogs and Cherries

Something Different

Run, Waiter, Run!

Divided We Fall

Město nic neví

Vážení přátelé, ano

The Secret of Steel City

Dissolved and Effused

Eugene among Us

Mark of Cain

Love Without Words

The Liberation of Prague

Bridal Tour to Jilji

Panelstory or Birth of a Community

Girl with Shells

Escape Home

The Great Movie Robbery

Blues pro EFB

Probuzení

Pochodně

Noc klavíristy

Blue Planet

Just Whistle a Little

Crime at the Girls School

Julek

The Glass House

Hotel for Strangers

Posel úsvitu

How the World Is Losing Poets

Lovers in the Year One

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives

Merry Christmas Octopus

The Great Unknown

Zbraně pro Prahu

Hlavní výhra

Zatykač na královnu

Pan Tau – der Film

Past na kachnu

Růžový Hubert

Sugar House

Zlaté rybky

Putování Jana Amose

Friday Is No Holiday

Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář

Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy

My Brother Has a Cute Brother
