Person Details

Birthday: 1927-11-03 23:30:39

Death: 1967-01-08 23:30:39

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Kniaże, Polska

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Movie Involvements: 30

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Ashes and Diamonds
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7

Ashes and Diamonds

(1958) Maciek Chełmicki
Night Train
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7

Night Train

(1959) Staszek
Love at Twenty
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7

Love at Twenty

(1962) Zbyszek (segment "Warszawa")
A Generation
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7

A Generation

(1955) Kostek
Good Bye, Till Tomorrow
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7
Innocent Sorcerers
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7

Innocent Sorcerers

(1960) Edmund
How to Be Loved
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7

How to Be Loved

(1963) Wiktor Rawicz
Salto
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7

Salto

(1965) Karol Kowalski/Malinowski

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1969 Self (archive footage)
1967 Edward Księżak
Rodecki
Janek, marynarz floty handlowej
1966 Maciek
[obsada aktorska]
Stage director of Macbeth
Zapała's Friend
Trener Paweł Jańczak
1965 Konrad Ferenc
Kowalski Malinowski
Łukasz
Alfonse Van Worden
1964 Fredrik
Staszek
Gruszka (Segment 3)
1963 Jan Ziętek, kapitan MO
doktor Andrzej Siennicki
N/A
Wiktor Rawicz
1962 Col. Prado Roth / The Rebel
Himself (segment 5)
Zbyszek (segment "Warszawa")
N/A
1961 Famous actor
1960 Edmund
Jacek
1959 Staszek
Zootechnik Tadeusz Więcek
1958 Maciek Chełmicki
Piotr Terlecki
1957 Romek Brzozowski
Rafał Grabień
1956 Miner (uncredited)
1955 Mietek Leśniak
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Kostek
Year Character Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1960 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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