Yul Brynner
Actor, Film actor
1920 – 1985
Who was Yul Brynner?
Yul Brynner was a Russian-born United States-based Eurasian actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of the King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards and an Academy Award for the film version; he played the role 4,625 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. Earlier, he was a model and television director, and later a photographer and the author of two books.
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- Born
- Jul 11, 1920
Vladivostok - Also known as
- Yuliy Borisovich Brynner
- Yul Borisovich Bryner
- Yuliy Borsovich Briner
- Julius Briner
- Jules Bryner
- Youl Bryner
- ユル・ブリンナー
- Yuli Borisovich Bryner
- Yuliy Borisovich Briner
- Yul Brenner
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Virginia Gilmore
(1944/09/06 - 1960/03/26) - Kathy Lee
(1983/04/04 - 1985/10/10) - Jacqueline de Croisset
(1971/09/23 - 1981) - Doris Kleiner
(1960/03/31 - 1967)
- Virginia Gilmore
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Russia
- Profession
- Education
- YMCA
- Died
- Oct 10, 1985
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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