Jiří Kodet
Acting
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.
Known for
Acting148
movieDivided We Fall
2000
Dr. Fischer-Rybáf
movieCosy Dens
1999
Otec Kraus
movieButtoners
1997
hostitel
movieAccumulator 1
1994
Mikulík
Sólo pro mou ženu
1991
Ing. Trejbal, Mirkův kolega
Smrt v kruhu
1990
inspektor Vrba
movieMark of Cain
1989
Commissioner Lottes
Dvě z Paříže
1989
Old Gentleman (segment "Hrobničky")
movieHow Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
1988
režisér Pergl
movieRůžový Hubert
1986
Artur Harper
movieDissolved and Effused
1985
Továrník Bierhanzl
Žofka z Janovic
1984
Lieutenant
tvOblouk světla
1983
Winter
tvThe Visitors
1983
Eda Nehasil
movieThe Death of a Talented Cobbler
1983
Kapitán Michal Exner
movieHráči
1983
Utěšitel
Plaché příběhy
1982
(segment "Modrá chryzantéma")
Fénix
1981
Miro Hubej
movieBulldogs and Cherries
1981
Giulio Salvatore
movieSugar House
1981
František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
tvArabela
1980
TV Director / (uncredited)
movieThe Medal
1980
Kostolány
movieBlue Planet
1980
Petr Málek
movieThe Apple Game
1978
MUDr. ArnoŠt Rýdl
tvThirty Cases of Major Zema
1976
por. Vejvoda
movieMy Brother Has a Cute Brother
1975
herec v reklamním filmu
movieZbraně pro Prahu
1975
nadporučík Sauer
movieLovers in the Year One
1974
Assistant
movieMorgiana
1972
Bessant
movieDita Saxová
1968
Younger Werli's Son (voice)
movieCrime at the Girls School
1966
Pavel Lavecký (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")
moviePochodně
1961
editor Norbert Zoula
movieProbuzení
1960
automechanik Emil
