Jiří Kodet
1937-12-06 ( 87 years old ) in 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.

Movies

Sentiment 2003-11-06
Cosy Dens 1999-04-08
Accumulator 1 1994-03-24
Lepší pán 1994-01-01
Hrobničky 1989-04-09
Mark of Cain 1989-01-09
Smrt v kruhu 1989-01-01
Papilio 1987-05-01
Grófinka 1986-10-04
Zátah 1986-01-01
Ing. 1985-01-01
Evo, vdej se! 1984-11-01
Modré z nebe 1984-02-01
Smeč 1983-03-05
Hráči 1983-01-01
Tři v tom 1981-11-16
Fénix 1981-09-18
Sugar House 1981-05-22
Rána pod pás 1981-05-21
The Medal 1980-10-31
Escape Home 1980-10-17
Blues pro EFB 1980-10-10
Julek 1980-05-09
Blue Planet 1980-01-25
Past na kachnu 1978-12-29
Hrozba 1978-11-17
Zlaté rybky 1978-04-07
The Apple Game 1978-02-03
Sokolovo 1975-05-09
Egyptologové 1974-09-01
Rodeo 1973-01-26
Morgiana 1972-09-15
Lekce 1972-01-14
Chance 1971-06-11
Revizor 1971-01-01
Comrades 1971-01-01
Klec pro dva 1968-03-06
Dita Saxová 1968-02-23
Lacrimae Rerum 1967-03-16
Assassination 1965-08-20
Krysař 1964-03-16
Pochodně 1961-03-10
Lidé jako ty 1960-12-09
Probuzení 1960-02-12
Hlavní výhra 1959-05-15
Posel úsvitu 1951-09-28