Jiří Kodet
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-12-06
Day of Death
2005-06-25 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Jiří Kodet
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2003)
(2000)
Divided We Fall
as Dr. Fischer-Rybáf
(1999)
Cosy Dens
as Otec Kraus
(1994)
Accumulator 1
as Mikulík
(1994)
(1991)
Sbohem, Sokrate
as Žak
(1990)
(1990)
(1990)
Sólo pro mou ženu
as Ing. Trejbal, Mirkův kolega
(1989)
Mark of Cain
as Commissioner Lottes
(1989)
Vážení přátelé, ano
as Římský
(1989)
Hrobničky
as Gentleman
(1989)
Smrt v kruhu
as inspektor Vrba
(1988)
(1988)
The Jester and the Queen
as King
(1988)
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
as režisér Pergl
(1988)
(1987)
(1987)
Merry Christmas Octopus
as Fára
(1987)
(1987)
(1987)
The Octopuses from the Second Floor
as Rudla Fára
(1987)
(1986)
Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
as Vévoda
(1986)
(1986)
(1986)
Růžový Hubert
as Artur Harper
(1985)
(1985)
(1985)
Dissolved and Effused
as Továrník Bierhanzl
(1984)
(1984)
(1984)
Zaspala nevěsta
as Milda
(1984)
Žofka z Janovic
as Lieutenant
(1984)
(1984)
Bridal Tour to Jilji
as Radovan
(1984)
(1984)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
The Death of a Talented Cobbler
as Kapitán Michal Exner
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
(1983)
Hráči
as Utěšitel
(1983)
(1982)
(1982)
(1982)
Plaché příběhy
as (segment "Modrá chryzantéma")
(1982)
(1981)
Run, Waiter, Run!
as Rudy
(1981)
Fénix
as Miro Hubej
(1981)
Bulldogs and Cherries
as Giulio Salvatore
(1981)
(1981)
(1981)
(1981)
Tři v tom
as Ubaldo
(1981)
Sugar House
as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
(1981)
(1981)
(1981)
(1981)
(1980)
(1980)
(1980)
The Medal
as Kostolány
(1980)
(1980)
(1980)
(1980)
Blue Planet
as Petr Málek
(1980)
(1980)
(1979)
(1979)
(1979)
(1979)
(1978)
(1978)
(1978)
The Apple Game
as MUDr. ArnoŠt Rýdl
(1978)
(1978)
(1977)
(1977)
(1977)
(1976)
(1975)
The Day That Shook the World
as Morsley
(1975)
(1975)
Zbraně pro Prahu
as nadporučík Sauer
(1975)
My Brother Has a Cute Brother
as herec v reklamním filmu
(1975)
(1974)
(1974)
(1974)
Lovers in the Year One
as Assistant
(1973)
(1972)
Morgiana
as Bessant
(1972)
(1971)
(1971)
(1971)
(1970)
(1969)
(1968)
Dita Saxová
as Younger Werli's Son (voice)
(1968)
(1967)
Hotel for Strangers
as Jiří
(1967)
(1966)
(1966)
Crime at the Girls School
as Pavel Lavecký (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")
(1965)
(1964)
(1964)
(1963)
Something Different
as Jirka
(1962)
Kolik slov stačí lásce?
as Mirek
(1961)
Pochodně
as editor Norbert Zoula
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
Probuzení
as automechanik Emil
(1959)
(1951)