Jiří Kodet

Jiří Kodet (67)

1937-12-06 - 2005-06-25 | Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]

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.

On Movies

  • Divided We Fall
  • Cosy Dens
  • Buttoners
  • Ing.
  • Accumulator 1
  • Lepší pán
  • Eugene among Us
  • Skřivánčí ticho
  • Smrt v kruhu
  • Mark of Cain
  • Vážení přátelé, ano
  • Pan Tau – der Film
  • How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
  • The Jester and the Queen
  • Merry Christmas Octopus
  • The Octopuses from the Second Floor
  • Můj hříšný muž
  • Papilio
  • My Daughter's Operation
  • The Great Movie Robbery
  • Růžový Hubert
  • Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
  • Zátah
  • Dissolved and Effused
  • Bridal Tour to Jilji
  • Evo, vdej se!
  • Angel in a Devil's Body
  • Modré z nebe
  • Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář
  • Putování Jana Amose
  • Hearty Greetings from the Globe
  • The Death of a Talented Cobbler
  • Hráči
  • How the World Is Losing Poets
  • The Glass House
  • Panelstory or Birth of a Community
  • Fénix
  • Bulldogs and Cherries
  • Sugar House
  • Just Whistle a Little
  • Girl with Shells
  • Run, Waiter, Run!
  • The Medal
  • Escape Home
  • Blues pro EFB
  • Julek
  • Friday Is No Holiday
  • Blue Planet
  • No Magic from Tomorrow
  • The Secret of Steel City
  • Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy
  • Bratři Kipové
  • Past na kachnu
  • Hrozba
  • Alarm in the Clouds
  • Zlaté rybky
  • The Apple Game
  • Noc klavíristy
  • The Liberation of Prague
  • Dům Na poříčí
  • Město nic neví
  • The Day That Shook the World
  • Ten kůň musí pryč
  • My Brother Has a Cute Brother
  • Sokolovo
  • Zbraně pro Prahu
  • Egyptologové
  • Zatykač na královnu
  • Lovers in the Year One
  • Morgiana
  • Lekce
  • Chance
  • Revizor
  • Comrades
  • The Great Unknown
  • All My Good Countrymen
  • Klec pro dva
  • Dita Saxová
  • Hotel for Strangers
  • Closely Watched Trains
  • Crime at the Girls School
  • Assassination
  • Krysař
  • The Mysterious Mr. Hyde
  • Something Different
  • Love Without Words
  • Pochodně
  • Lidé jako ty
  • Higher Principle
  • Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
  • Probuzení
  • Hlavní výhra
  • Posel úsvitu

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