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Jiří Kodet

Jiří Kodet

Birthday: 1937-12-06 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2000
Divided We Fall

as    Dr. Fischer-Rybáf

1999
Pelíšky

as    Otec Kraus

1994
Accumulator 1

as    Mikulík

1990
Sólo pro mou ženu

as    Ing. Trejbal, Mirkův kolega

1989
Mark of Cain

as    Commissioner Lottes

1989
Vážení přátelé, ano

as    Římský

1988
The Jester and the Queen

as    King

1987
Počkej si na bílé štěstí

as    primář Soukup

1986
Růžový Hubert

as    Artur Harper

1986
Čarovné dědictví

as    Vévoda

1984
Bridal Tour to Jilji

as    Radovan