
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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Acting (76 movies)

Zlaté rybky
1978

Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
1979

The Secret of Steel City
1979

Divided We Fall
2000

Cosy Dens
1999

Julek
1980

Accumulator 1
1994

How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
1988

The Apple Game
1978

The Jester and the Queen
1988

Love Without Words
1962

Dissolved and Effused
1985

Blues pro EFB
1980

Girl with Shells
1981

Morgiana
1972

Just Whistle a Little
1981

Escape Home
1980

How the World Is Losing Poets
1982

Hearty Greetings from the Globe
1983

Angel in a Devil's Body
1984

Assassination
1965

Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
1986

Crime at the Girls School
1966

Higher Principle
1960

Closely Watched Trains
1966

Dita Saxová
1968

All My Good Countrymen
1969

The Medal
1980

The Great Movie Robbery
1987

The Great Unknown
1970

Lekce
1972

Zatykač na královnu
1974

The Day That Shook the World
1975

Sokolovo
1975

Vážení přátelé, ano
1989

Run, Waiter, Run!
1981

Bridal Tour to Jilji
1984

Město nic neví
1976

Noc klavíristy
1977

The Liberation of Prague
1977

Friday Is No Holiday
1980

Putování Jana Amose
1983

Mark of Cain
1989

No Magic from Tomorrow
1979

Alarm in the Clouds
1978

The Glass House
1982

Papilio
1987

Zbraně pro Prahu
1975

Bulldogs and Cherries
1981

Past na kachnu
1978

Revizor
1971

The Death of a Talented Cobbler
1983

Růžový Hubert
1986

My Brother Has a Cute Brother
1975

Hotel for Strangers
1967

Something Different
1963

My Daughter's Operation
1987

Panelstory or Birth of a Community
1981

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
1960

Merry Christmas Octopus
1987

Sugar House
1981

Sentiment
2003

Probuzení
1960

Chance
1971

Blue Planet
1980

Eugene among Us
1990

Pan Tau – der Film
1988

Lovers in the Year One
1974

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde
1964

Posel úsvitu
1951

Hrozba
1978

Pochodně
1961

Hlavní výhra
1959

The Octopuses from the Second Floor
1987

Můj hříšný muž
1987

Buttoners
1997
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