
Jiří Kodet
Born December 6, 1937 · 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.
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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Chance

Hearty Greetings from the Globe

Buttoners

Crime at the Girls School

The Medal

Egyptologové

Lovers in the Year One

Bridal Tour to Jilji

Angel in a Devil's Body

Panelstory or Birth of a Community

All My Good Countrymen

Run, Waiter, Run!

Merry Christmas Octopus

Pan Tau – der Film

Just Whistle a Little

How the World Is Losing Poets

Bulldogs and Cherries

Zlaté rybky

Pumpaři od Zlaté podkovy

The Liberation of Prague

Accumulator 1

Love Without Words

Lekce

Noc klavíristy

Mark of Cain

Putování Jana Amose

The Great Movie Robbery

Higher Principle

No Magic from Tomorrow

Můj hříšný muž

Jestli jednou odejdu

Pochodně

The Apple Game

Something Different

Revizor

Probuzení

Město nic neví

My Daughter's Operation

Dissolved and Effused

Hrozba

Escape Home

Vážení přátelé, ano

The Great Unknown

The Jester and the Queen

Julek

The Death of a Talented Cobbler

Růžový Hubert

The Mysterious Mr. Hyde

Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft

Blues pro EFB

Zatykač na královnu

Zbraně pro Prahu

Papilio

Posel úsvitu

Síť na bludičku

Girl with Shells

Hráči

Eugene among Us

Hotel for Strangers

The Glass House

Past na kachnu

Blue Planet

Friday Is No Holiday

Hlavní výhra

Sugar House

Alarm in the Clouds




























