Jiří Kodet
Known For
Acting
Born
1937-12-06 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Died
2005-06-25
Biography
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.
Most Known For
Bakaláři
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
as por. Vejvoda
Morgiana
as Bessant
Fénix
as Miro Hubej
Arabela
as TV Director
Arabela
as (uncredited)
Krásný ztráty
as Self
Egyptologové
Cosy Dens
as Otec Kraus
Sokolovo
Chance
Pan Tau
Buttoners
The Flying Cestmir
Dita Saxová
as Younger Werli's Son (voice)
F. L. Věk
The Medal
as Kostolány
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
Dobrodružství kriminalistiky
as Albert
