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Bogumił Kobiela

1931 - 1969

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Bogumił Kobiela (31 May 1931 – 10 July 1969) was a Polish stage and film actor. He is best known for his performances as Drewnowski in Andrzej Wajda's 1958 drama film Ashes and Diamonds and as Jan Piszczyk in Andrzej Munk's black comedy film Bad Luck (1960). He suffered serious injuries in a car crash on 2 July 1969 in Buszkowo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bogumił Kobiela has received more than 33,279 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Bogumił Kobiela is the 6,304th most popular actor, the 1,167th most popular biography from Poland and the 59th most popular Polish Actor.

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  • 3.27

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bogumił Kobiela ranks 6,304 out of 13,578. Before him are Nikki Reed, Dan Haggerty, Sylvie Testud, Cole Hauser, Chelsea Field, and Christine Hakim. After him are Pascale Ogier, Rachelle Lefevre, François Chau, Yoo Ji-tae, Moira Shearer, and Shakti Kapoor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Bogumił Kobiela ranks 498. Before him are Billy Bingham, Te Atairangikaahu, Allan Jay, William H. Keeler, Marino Morettini, and Abdirahman Ahmed Ali Tuur. After him are Árpád Bárány, Enrique Hormazábal, Ursula Donath, Ernest Schultz, Paul Halla, and Walter Abish. Among people deceased in 1969, Bogumił Kobiela ranks 218. Before him are Kazimierz Wierzyński, Heinrich Hax, Bess Meredyth, Miklós Szilvási, Ben Alexander, and Commodore Cochran. After him are Leonard Chess, Raymond Flacher, Viktor Vinogradov, Manuel Plaza, Muhammad Fareed Didi, and Rodolfo Choperena.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bogumił Kobiela ranks 1,167 out of 1,694. Before him are Hans Sturm (1935), Józef Kałuża (1896), Ewa Lipska (1945), Maksymilian Gierymski (1846), Salomon Bochner (1899), and Henryk Iwaniec (1947). After him are Kazimierz Zimny (1935), Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (1950), Kazimierz Brodziński (1791), Heinz Pollay (1908), Paweł Janas (1953), and Narcyza Żmichowska (1819).

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Among ACTORS In Poland

Among actors born in Poland, Bogumił Kobiela ranks 59. Before him are Lucyna Winnicka (1928), Zbigniew Zamachowski (1961), Jadwiga Barańska (1935), Irena Kwiatkowska (1912), Janusz Zakrzeński (1936), and Jadwiga Smosarska (1898). After him are Andrzej Grabowski (1952), Herbert Hübner (1889), Jerzy Radziwiłowicz (1950), Anna-Maria Sieklucka (1992), Aleksei Guskov (1958), and Gilda Gray (1901).

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Television and Movie Roles

Ashes and Diamonds
Drewnowski
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
Oct 3o 19587.4 / 10
Bad Luck
Jan Piszczyk
To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.
Apr 4o 19606.7 / 10
The Saragossa Manuscript
Senor Toledo
During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.
Feb 27o 19667.9 / 10