Susan Kodicek

Acting
1947-09-25
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Biography

British-based Czech born actress and later writer/director. Born Zuzana Opršalová, but mostly credited as Susan Kodicek or Hannah Kodicek, she was best known for her performance in the BBC's adaptation of John Le Carrie's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Olga Cannon

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Rita Taubman

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#3Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Irina

7.6 / 10
War & PoliticsDramaMystery

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was broadcast from 10 September to 22 October 1979. George Smiley, the ageing master spy of the Cold War and once heir-apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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#4The Sandbaggers

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Nadina

8.3 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

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#5Audition

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Herself (segment "Konkurs")

6.4 / 10
MusicDocumentary

Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her boss to compete.

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#6The Union

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Olga Cannon

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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#7Black Peter

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Pavla's friend

6.6 / 10
DramaComedy

A few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.

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#8The Sin Bin

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Eva Gatz

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers participate in group therapy.

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#9The Best of Friends

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Rita Taubman

8.8 / 10
Drama

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

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#10Crime at the Girls School

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Kouřimská (segment "Zločin v dívčí škole")

6.4 / 10
ComedyCrime

Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the music theater and the strange disappearance of the mathematics professor.

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#11Christmas with Elisabeth

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Girl at penitentiary

8.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Surly solitary truck driver is given an assistant for his daily rounds: a young woman with a fondness for mini-skirts and boys, fresh out of prison.

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#12A Place in the Crowd

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as (segment "Místo")

8.0 / 10
Drama

A film in five episodes, all based on an attempt to show the life of young people today, their feelings and relationships, their behaviour in public and private life.

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#13Over There

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Hansl

8.8 / 10

'It's like the Sealed Knot innit, it's historical.' A group of World War II enthusiasts forgather in the Lake District to do battle with a similarly devoted group of Waffen SS, especially imported from Gravesend. Of course, Windermere 1979 is not Normandy 1944, but for some, perhaps wishing will make it so?

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#14Cubs Trainers

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
ComedyFamilyAdventure

A family movie about a group of young children responsible for the bear cubs training in the Prague Zoo.

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