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.
Zlaté rybky
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The Secret of Steel City
Dvě z Paříže
Smeč
Lepší pán
Divided We Fall
(Dr. Fischer-Rybáf)
Cosy Dens
(Otec Kraus)
Julek
Accumulator 1
(Mikulík)
How Poets Are Enjoying Their Lives
(režisér Pergl)
The Apple Game
(MUDr. ArnoŠt Rýdl)
The Jester and the Queen
(King)
Kolik slov stačí lásce?
(Mirek)
Dissolved and Effused
(Továrník Bierhanzl)
Ing.
Blues pro EFB
Děti zítřků
Girl with Shells
Morgiana
(Bessant)
Just Whistle a Little
Hrobničky
(Gentleman)
Lidé jako ty
Escape Home
V hlavní roli Oldřich Nový
A na konci je začátek
Drž se rovně, Kačenko
Rána pod pás
Sobota odpoledne, počátek léta
How the World Is Losing Poets
Plaché příběhy
((segment "Modrá chryzantéma"))
Hearty Greetings from the Globe
Plášť Marie Terezie
Romance ze Savoy baru
Angel in a Devil's Body
Krysař
Assassination
Eine zauberhafte Erbschaft
(Vévoda)
Crime at the Girls School
(Pavel Lavecký (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole"))
Higher Principle
Closely Watched Trains
Dita Saxová
(Younger Werli's Son (voice))
Lacrimae Rerum
All My Good Countrymen
The Medal
(Kostolány)
The Great Movie Robbery
The Great Unknown
Lekce
Rodeo
More v kvapke vody
Zatykač na královnu
The Day That Shook the World
(Morsley)
Egyptologové
Sokolovo
Vážení přátelé, ano
(Římský)
Run, Waiter, Run!
(Rudy)
Bridal Tour to Jilji
(Radovan)
Město nic neví
Ten kůň musí pryč
Duch soudce Pauknera
Modré z nebe
Noc klavíristy
Dům Na poříčí
The Liberation of Prague
Friday Is No Holiday
Putování Jana Amose
Jen se spolehni
Mark of Cain
Síť na bludičku
Klec pro dva
Jestli jednou odejdu
Alarm in the Clouds
No Magic from Tomorrow
The Glass House
Papilio
Zbraně pro Prahu
(nadporučík Sauer)
Bulldogs and Cherries
(Giulio Salvatore)
Bergman a Bergman, detektivní kancelář
Tři v tom
(Ubaldo)
Byt je vykraden, maminko...
Past na kachnu
Revizor
The Death of a Talented Cobbler
(Kapitán Michal Exner)
Růžový Hubert
(Artur Harper)
My Brother Has a Cute Brother
(herec v reklamním filmu)
Something Different
(Jirka)
Hotel for Strangers
(Jiří)
My Daughter's Operation
Panelstory or Birth of a Community
Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
Merry Christmas Octopus
(Fára)
Sugar House
(František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina)
Sbohem, Sokrate
(Žak)
Comrades
Sentiment
Hráči
(Utěšitel)
Smrt v kruhu
(inspektor Vrba)
Probuzení
(automechanik Emil)
Chance
Blue Planet
(Petr Málek)
Eugene among Us
Pan Tau – der Film
Zátah
Bratři Kipové
Zaspala nevěsta
(Milda)
Lovers in the Year One
(Assistant)
The Mysterious Mr. Hyde
Evo, vdej se!
Fénix
(Miro Hubej)
Posel úsvitu
V hlavní roli obhájce
Hrozba
Žofka z Janovic
(Lieutenant)
Pochodně
(editor Norbert Zoula)
Hlavní výhra
Bližní na tapetě
Bakaláři
Ve znamení Merkura
Zákony pohybu
Počkej si na bílé štěstí
(primář Soukup)
Arabela
(TV Director)
Arabela
((uncredited))
Zahrada dětí
(Malát)
Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
(Familienrat)
Malá Dorritka
Náhrdelník
Hříšní lidé města pražského
Pan Tau
F. L. Věk
Thirty Cases of Major Zema
Slovácko sa nesúdí
Krásný ztráty
(Self)
The Flying Cestmir
The Visitors
(Eda Nehasil)
Oblouk světla
(Winter)
Tři mušketýři
Nemocnice na kraji města
Sanitka