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