Jiří Kodet
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.
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Known for
Higher Principle
Cosy Dens
Otec Kraus
Noc klavíristy
The Day That Shook the World
Morsley
Dita Saxová
Younger Werli's Son (voice)
Accumulator 1
Mikulík
The Liberation of Prague
Bakaláři
Probuzení
automechanik Emil
Something Different
Jirka
All My Good Countrymen
Buttoners
The Apple Game
MUDr. ArnoŠt Rýdl
Hotel for Strangers
Jiří
Love Without Words
Mirek
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
Morgiana
Bessant
Blues pro EFB
The Jester and the Queen
King
Crime at the Girls School
Pavel Lavecký (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")
Lekce
Město nic neví
The Death of a Talented Cobbler
Kapitán Michal Exner
The Octopuses from the Second Floor
Rudla Fára
Hrozba
Sokolovo
Dissolved and Effused
Továrník Bierhanzl
Papilio
The Secret of Steel City
The Glass House
Rodeo
Sentiment
Angel in a Devil's Body
Egyptologové
Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
Vévoda
Můj hříšný muž
Modré z nebe
Arabela
TV Director
Arabela
(uncredited)
Sobota odpoledne, počátek léta
My Daughter's Operation
Eugene among Us
Vážení přátelé, ano
Římský
The Medal
Kostolány
Bratři Kipové
Bulldogs and Cherries
Giulio Salvatore
Comrades
Plaché příběhy
(segment "Modrá chryzantéma")
Hráči
Utěšitel
Panelstory or Birth of a Community
Fénix
Miro Hubej
Alarm in the Clouds
Ing.
More v kvapke vody
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
Closely Watched Trains
Duch soudce Pauknera
Pan Tau
Lepší pán
Byt je vykraden, maminko...
Mark of Cain
Commissioner Lottes
Dům Na poříčí
The Mysterious Mr. Hyde
Betazóna
Lidé jako ty
No Magic from Tomorrow
Síť na bludičku
Friday Is No Holiday
Krysař
Zlaté rybky
Rána pod pás
Divided We Fall
Dr. Fischer-Rybáf
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
por. Vejvoda
Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
Chance
Přepadení
How the World Is Losing Poets
Smrt v kruhu
inspektor Vrba
Klec pro dva
Jestli jednou odejdu
Assassination
Run, Waiter, Run!
Rudy
The Visitors
Eda Nehasil
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
režisér Pergl
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
Albert
Zbraně pro Prahu
nadporučík Sauer
Slovácko sa nesúdí
Bridal Tour to Jilji
Radovan
V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
Nemocnice na kraji města
Sanitka
F. L. Věk
Sólo pro mou ženu
Ing. Trejbal, Mirkův kolega
The Flying Cestmir
Zákony pohybu
Náhrdelník
Bližní na tapetě
Ve znamení Merkura
Hříšní lidé města pražského
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Familienrat
Zahrada dětí
Malát
Tři mušketýři
Pan Tau – der Film
Little Dorrit
Oblouk světla
Winter
Girl with Shells
Blue Planet
Petr Málek
Děti zítřků
Escape Home
Počkej si na bílé štěstí
primář Soukup
Merry Christmas Octopus
Fára
Srdíčko
Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář
The Great Unknown
The Great Movie Robbery
Drž se rovně, Kačenko
Zaspala nevěsta
Milda
Julek
Zatykač na královnu
Zátah
Just Whistle a Little
Putování Jana Amose
Růžový Hubert
Artur Harper
A na konci je začátek
Jen se spolehni
Sugar House
František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
Lovers in the Year One
Assistant
Pochodně
editor Norbert Zoula
Ex offo
Tři v tom
Ubaldo
Žofka z Janovic
Lieutenant
Lacrimae Rerum
Skřivánčí ticho
Revizor
Hlavní výhra
Dvě z Paříže
Old Gentleman (segment "Hrobničky")
Posel úsvitu
Ten kůň musí pryč
Plášť Marie Terezie
Bogan
Smeč
V hlavní roli obhájce
Evo, vdej se!
Past na kachnu
My Brother Has a Cute Brother
herec v reklamním filmu
Romance ze Savoy baru
Grófinka
Ohňostroj v Aspern
Krásný ztráty
Self