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 Jiřà 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 PohoÅ™elec, Prague. With this ensemble he toured a large part of the former Czechoslovakia. His future colleagues from the Drama Club, Jiřà Hrzán, Jiřà Zahajský and Petr Skoumal, were in the ensemble with him. In Pardubice, he was sought out by Jan KaÄer, who was assembling a troupe for the Petr BezruÄ 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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Jiřà Kodet Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jiřà Kodet |
| Also Know | Jirà Kodet |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic] |
| Date of Birth | 1937-12-06 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 67 |
| Deathday | 2005-06-25 |
Jiřà Kodet Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Revizor | 1971-01-01 | … | |
| The Death of a Talented Cobbler | Kapitán Michal Exner | 1982-01-01 | … |
| Sbohem, Sokrate | Žak | 1991-01-01 | … |
| Comrades | 1971-01-01 | Chytilová was not allowed to direct films between 1969 and 1976. The sole exception was the made-for-TV film Kamarádi, now virtually unknown…. | |
| Sentiment | 2003-11-06 | Sentiment is Tomáš Hejtmánek’s intimate documentary portrait of the great Czech director FrantiÅ¡ek VláÄil. The film was inspired by encounters w… | |
| Smrt v kruhu | inspektor Vrba | 1989-01-01 | … |
| The Apple Game | MUDr. Arnost Rýdl | 1977-01-16 | Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can’t figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to sta… |
| Dissolved and Effused | TovárnÃk Bierhanzl | 1984-12-31 | A police inspector and inexperienced trainee search for a mysteriously disappeared manufacturer of ointments for hair growth…. |
| Bulldogs and Cherries | 1981-08-07 | The dreaded Italian mafioso, Marian Labuda, will also be convinced. Mafioso Carmello was guilty of the principles of his organization when he tried to… | |
| Past na kachnu | 1978-12-01 | Taxi driver Koukal (Miroslav Machácek) is stopped by the police for a routine traffic check. In the boot of his car the police find the body of a nak… | |
| HráÄi | Utěšitel | 1983-01-01 | … |
| V hlavnà roli obhájce | 1972-01-01 | … | |
| The Jester and the Queen | King | 1988-04-01 | The movie is a satirical look at foreign occupation – a medieval Czech jester entertains a German king and his French wife, or a modern Czech villager… |
| Something Different | Jirka | 1963-12-20 | In her first feature, VÄ›ra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint. The first fo… |
| Ing. | 1985-01-01 | Short musical comedy from Tomas Vorel…. | |
| KrysaÅ™ | 1964-03-16 | … | |
| ÄŒarovné dÄ›dictvà | Vévoda | 1986-10-01 | … |
| Kainovo znamenà | 1989-01-09 | … | |
| ZbranÄ› pro Prahu | nadporuÄÃk Sauer | 1975-05-01 | … |
| Probuzenà | automechanik Emil | 1960-02-12 | … |
| Blue Planet | Petr Málek | 1980-01-25 | A young engineer, Å tÄ›pán PavlÃk, dreams of becoming a cosmonaut…. |
| Zátah | 1986-01-01 | … | |
| Cosy Dens | Otec Kraus | 1999-04-08 | Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are total… |
| The Medal | Kostolány | 1980-10-30 | The trenches of World War I provide for a captivating backdrop to the drama of Corporal Hoferik. In his devotion to the Habsburg Monarchy, he fanatica… |
| Váženà přátelé, ano | ŘÃmský | 1989-09-30 | … |
| Zaspala nevÄ›sta | Milda | 1984-01-01 | … |
| Morgiana | Bessant | 1972-09-15 | Jealous of her vapidly “good” sister’s popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara’s tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows… |
| My Daughter’s Operation | 1988-03-17 | A car accident occurs and Dusan’s teenage daughter Milena gets very seriously injured. To add insult to injury, Dusan is unable to donate a kidney whe… | |
| Sugar House | FrantiÅ¡ek PÅ™ibyl, otec Ondry a Martina | 1981-05-22 | In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana S… |
| BratÅ™i Kipové | 1979-01-01 | … | |
| Žofka z Janovic | 1984-01-01 | … | |
| DvÄ› z PařÞe | 1988-01-01 | … | |
| SmeÄ | 1983-01-01 | … | |
| Accumulator 1 | MikulÃk | 1994-03-24 | In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that’s right in the TV set. T… |
| Friday Is No Holiday | 1980-03-01 | … | |
| Růžový Hubert | 1985-01-01 | … | |
| Panelstory or Birth of a Community | 1980-12-25 | An old man is wandering round a badly signposted and as yet mostly under construction Prague housing estate looking for the high rise block into which… | |
| Evo, vdej se! | 1983-01-01 | … | |
| Divided We Fall | Dr. Fischer-Rybáf | 2000-03-16 | In 1943, a childless couple, the ČÞeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of ČÞek’s former employer, in the secret pantry… |
| Waiter, Scarper! | Rudy | 1981-01-01 | It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money … |
| Lovers in the Year One | Assistant | 1974-03-15 | It is the summer of 1945. A party of young people are enjoying the beginning of a new life to the full. For them this is the year one. One of them, la… |
| Záhadný pan Hyde | 1964-01-01 | … | |
| Bridal Tour to Jilji | Radovan | 1983-01-18 | A scientist meets a nice girl and they start dating. He decides the only way to find out for sure if she’s the one is to take a long trip with her, … |
| Klec pro dva | 1968-03-06 | … | |
| Assassination | 1965-08-20 | The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII…. | |
| Hotel for Strangers | Jiřà | 1967-03-24 | A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat c… |
| Chance | 1971-06-11 | … | |
| Pan Tau – der Film | 1988-11-03 | Pan Tau, the friend of all children, now also helps the adults. A movie producer is in trouble and decides to shoot another Pan-Tau movie. But the ol… | |
| The Day That Shook the World | Morsley | 1975-10-31 | Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sar… |
| Veselé Vánoce pÅ™ejà chobotnice | Fára | 1987-11-01 | … |
| PochodnÄ› | editor Norbert Zoula | 1961-03-10 | … |
| Eugene among Us | 1990-10-01 | Young Eugene from the provinces travels to Prague in search of fame. Once there he gets an offer to write engagé lyrics for pop songs…… | |
| Kolik slov staÄà lásce? | Mirek | 1962-05-18 | … |
| My Brother Has a Cute Brother | herec v reklamnÃm filmu | 1975-05-13 | Honza Pavelka (Jan HrusÃnský) wins the junior motorbike speed races. His thirteen-year-old brother Martin (Roman Cada), his assistant and biggest fa… |
| Romeo, Juliet and Darkness | 1960-04-15 | Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building’s attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German a… | |
| Closely Watched Trains | 1966-11-18 | At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious … | |
| Rodeo | 1973-01-26 | … | |
| How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives | režisér Pergl | 1988-06-01 | ZatÃmco Kendy se jako pomocný režisér vracà do rodného mÄ›sta natáÄet s televiznÃm Å¡tábem tÅ™ináctidÃlný seriál, Å tÄ›pán Å afránek, … |
| ZatykaÄ na královnu | 1974-04-05 | … | |
| Hrozba | 1978-11-01 | … | |
| The Great Unknown | 1970-10-23 | Three detective stories, three different views of life and death… Collection of three horror short stories…. | |
| Higher Principle | 1960-11-23 | During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who cr… | |
| All My Good Countrymen | 1969-07-04 | The title “All My Good Countrymen” is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War con… | |
| Lekce | 1972-01-14 | … | |
| Lidé jako ty | 1960-12-09 | … | |
| Dita Saxová | Younger Werli’s Son (voice) | 1968-02-23 | A beautiful, underachieving, 18-year-old orphan considers various suitors, ponders philosophy, and takes a young girl under her wing…. |
| Crime at the Girls School | Pavel Lavecký (segment “ZloÄin v dÃvÄà škole”) | 1966-02-18 | Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by LubomÃr Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between … |
| Posel úsvitu | 1951-09-28 | … | |
| Hlavnà výhra | 1959-05-15 | … | |
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