From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Zbigniew Cybulski Polish pronunciation ˈzbiɡɲɛf tsɨˈbulskʲi November 3 1927 January 8 1967 was a Polish actor one of the bestknown and most popular personalities of the postWorld 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 IvanoFrankivsk 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 Schillers Wybrzeże Theatre Also with his friend Bogumił Kobiela Cybulski founded a famous student theatre the BimBom 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 Warsawbased 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 Kutzs Krzyż Walecznych The same year he also appeared as one of the main characters in Andrzej Wajdas Ashes and Diamonds and Aleksander Fords 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
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