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Jiří Kodet

Actor
Born December 6, 1937Died June 25, 2005 (67 years)
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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Known For
  • Cosy Dens
  • Run, Waiter, Run!
  • Something Different
  • Morgiana
  • Accumulator 1
  • Hra o jablko
  • Bulldogs and Cherries
  • Sasek a královna
  • The Assassination
  • The Death of a Talented Cobbler
  • The Medal
  • Vázení prátelé, ano
  • Panelstory or Birth of a Community
  • Pan Tau - Der Film
  • Awakening
  • Kamarádi
  • Past na kachnu
  • Hotel for Strangers
  • Rùzový Hubert
  • Lovers in the Year One

Filmography

2003
2000
Divided We Fall · as Dr. Fischer-Rybáf
1999
Cosy Dens · as Otec Kraus
1997
Buttoners · as Hostitel
1997
Zdivocelá zeme · as Visek
1994
Accumulator 1 · as Mikulík
1989
The Adventure Of Criminology (TV Series) · as Albert
1989
Vázení prátelé, ano · as Římský
1988
1988
Andel svádí dábla · as Head Procurist
1988
1988
1987
1987
Muj hrísny muz · as Vedecký Tajemník Kadlec
1986
The Octopuses from the Second Floor (TV Series) · as Rudla Fára
1986
1986
1985
1985
Dissolved and Effused · as Továrník Bierhanzl
1985
Rùzový Hubert · as Artur Harper
1984
Sanitka (TV Series)
1984
1983
1983
The Visitors (TV Series) · as Eda Nehasil
1983
1983
The Death of a Talented Cobbler · as Kapitán Michal Exner
1983
1982
1981
1981
Bulldogs and Cherries · as Giulio Salvatore
1981
Cukrová bouda · as František Přibyl, Otec Ondry A Martina
1981
1981
1981
1980
1980
Arabela (TV Series) · as Tv Director
1980
The Medal · as Kostolány
1980
1980
1979
1979
1979
1978
1978
Zákony pohybu (TV Series)
1978
1978
1977
1977
1977
1977
Hra o jablko · as Mudr. Arnošt Rýdl
1975
1975
1975
1975
1975
1975
My Brother Has a Cute Brother · as Herec V Reklamním Filmu
1974
1974
Lovers in the Year One · as Assistant
1972
Morgiana · as Bessant
1971
F. L. Věk (TV Series)
1971
1970
Pan Tau (TV Series)
1969
1968
1968
Dita Saxová · as Younger Werli's Son (voice)
1967
Hotel for Strangers · as Jiří
1966
1966
Zlocin v dívcí skole · as Pavel Lavecký (segment "zločin V Dívčí Škole")
1964
1963
1960
1960
1960
Awakening · as Automechanik Emil

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