Zbigniew Cybulski

DOB: 1927-11-03

DOD: 1967-01-08

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zbigniew Cybulski Polish pronunciation: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf t͡sɨˈbulskʲi] (November 3, 1927 – January 8, 1967) was a Polish actor, one of the best-known and most popular personalities of the post-World War II history of Poland. Zbigniew Cybulski was born November 3, 1927 in a small village of Kniaże near Śniatyń, Poland (now a part of Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine). After World War II he joined the Theatre Academy in Kraków. He graduated in 1953 and moved to Gdańsk, where he made his stage debut in Leon Schiller's Wybrzeże Theatre. Also, with his friend Bogumił Kobiela, Cybulski founded a famous student theatre, the Bim-Bom. In the early 1960s, Cybulski moved to Warsaw, where he shortly joined the Kabaret Wagabunda. He also appeared on stage at the Ateneum Theatre, one of the most modern and least conservative Warsaw-based theatres of the epoch. However, Cybulski is best remembered as a screen actor. He first appeared in a 1954 film Kariera as an extra. His first major role came in 1958, when he played in Kazimierz Kutz's Krzyż Walecznych. The same year he also appeared as one of the main characters in Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds and Aleksander Ford's The Eighth Day of the Week based on a short story by Marek Hłasko. From then on Cybulski was seen as one of the most notable actors of the Polish Film School and one of the "young and wrathful", as his generation of actors were called at the time. His most famous films, apart from Ashes and Diamonds, include Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript. He also acted in numerous television plays, including some based on works by Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Cybulski died in an accident at a Wrocław Główny railway station on January 8, 1967, on his way from the film set. As he jumped on the speeding train (as he often did), he slipped on the steps, fell under the train, and was run over. Before the accident he said goodbye to Marlene Dietrich, a personal friend of his, who was a passenger on the train. He was buried in Katowice.

Starred In

1958
Movie

Ashes and Diamonds

1962
Movie

The Doll

1960
Movie

Innocent Sorcerers

1964
Movie

Giuseppe in Warsaw

1957
Movie

Wraki

1966
Movie

The Codes

1962
Movie

Thé a la menthe

1963
Movie

How to Be Loved

1969
Movie

Zbyszek

1967
Movie

Jowita

1965
Movie

Penguin

1965
Movie

Salto

1959
Movie

Night Train

1955
Movie

A Generation

1959
Movie

Cross of Valor

1965
Movie

Alone in the City

1957
Movie

Koniec nocy

1964
Movie

No More Divorces

1966
Movie

Christmas Eve

1964
Movie

To Love

1967
Movie

Full Ahead

1955
Movie

Trzy starty

1962
Movie

Love at Twenty

1966
Movie

Master

1966
Movie

Iluzja

1955
Movie

Career

1966
Movie

Tomorrow Mexico

1963
Movie

Silence