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person_profile-Zbigniew Cybulski

Zbigniew Cybulski Died at age: 39

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Zbigniew Cybulski

Date of Birth:

Nov 03, 1927

Country of birth:

Polska

Died:

Jan 08, 1967

Biography of

Zbigniew Cybulski

    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.

Photos of

Zbigniew Cybulski

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Filmography of

Zbigniew Cybulski

Found 28 Movies in total

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2012

Zbyszek

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1969

Jowita

Edward Księżak ( Actor )

... 1967

The Killer Leaves a Trace

Rodecki ( Actor )

... 1967

The Codes

Maciek ( Actor )

... 1966

Christmas Eve

Zapała's Friend ( Actor )

... 1966

Tomorrow Mexico

Trener Paweł Jańczak ( Actor )

... 1966

The Saragossa Manuscript

Alfonse Van Worden ( Actor )

... 1965

Salto

Kowalski Malinowski ( Actor )

... 1965

Giuseppe in Warsaw

Staszek ( Actor )

... 1964

No More Divorces

Gruszka (Segment 3) ( Actor )

... 1964

Silence

Actor

... 1963

Their Everyday Life

doktor Andrzej Siennicki ( Actor )

... 1963

How to Be Loved

Wiktor Rawicz ( Actor )

... 1963

The Doll

Col. Prado Roth / The Rebel ( Actor )

... 1962

Spóźnieni przechodnie

Himself (segment 5) ( Actor )

... 1962

Love at Twenty

Zbyszek (segment "Warszawa") ( Actor )

... 1962

Goodbye to the Past

Famous actor ( Actor )

... 1961

Innocent Sorcerers

Edmund ( Actor )

... 1960

Good Bye, Till Tomorrow

Jacek ( Actor )

Writer

... 1960

Night Train

Staszek ( Actor )

... 1959

Cross of Valor

Zootechnik Tadeusz Więcek ( Actor )

... 1959

Ashes and Diamonds

Maciek Chełmicki ( Actor )

... 1958

The Eighth Day of the Week

Piotr Terlecki ( Actor )

... 1958

Wraki

Rafal Grabien ( Actor )

... 1957

Trzy starty

Mietek Leśniak ( Actor )

... 1955

Career

Bus Passenger (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1955

A Generation

Kostek ( Actor )

... 1955