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.

Filmography

• 1986Piękny dwudziestoletni — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1967Full Ahead — Janek
• 1967Jowita — Edward Księżak
• 1967The Killer Leaves a Trace — Rodecki
• 1966Christmas Eve — Zapała's Friend
• 1966Iluzja — Lover
• 1966Master — Director
• 1966The Codes — Maciek
• 1966The Saragossa Manuscript — Alfonse Van Worden
• 1966Tomorrow Mexico — Paweł Jańczak
• 1965Alone in the City — Konrad Ferenc
• 1965Penguin — Łukasz
• 1965Salto — Kowalski Malinowski
• 1964Giuseppe in Warsaw — Staszek
• 1964No More Divorces — Gruszka (Segment 3)
• 1964To Love — Fredrik
• 1963How to Be Loved — Wiktor Rawicz
• 1963Silence — Roman
• 1963The Criminal and the Lady — Jan Ziętek
• 1963Their Everyday Life — Andrzej Siennicki
• 1962Love at Twenty — Zbyszek (segment "Warszawa")
• 1962The Doll — Colonel Octavio Prado Roth / Cotal, the rebel
• 1962Thé a la menthe
• 1961Goodbye to the Past — Famous actor
• 1960Goodbye, Till Tomorrow — Jacek, Writer
• 1960Innocent Sorcerers — Edmund
• 1959Cross of Valor — Tadeusz Więcek
• 1959Night Train — Staszek
• 1958Ashes and Diamonds — Maciek Chełmicki
• 1958The Eighth Day of the Week — Piotr Terlecki
• 1957Koniec nocy — Romek Brzozowski
• 1957Wraki — Rafał Grabień
• 1956Tajemnica dzikiego szybu — Miner (uncredited)
• 1955A Generation — Kostek
• 1955Career — Bus Passenger (uncredited)
• 1955Man Does Not Die — Szarlej
• 1955Trzy starty — Mietek Leśniak

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1969Zbyszek — Self (archive footage)
• 1962Spóźnieni przechodnie — Himself (segment 5)