Yul Brynner
| Yul Brynner | |
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Brynner in Sarajevo in November 1969
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| Born |
Yuliy Borisovich Briner July 11, 1920 Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic |
| Died | October 10, 1985 (aged 65) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Lung cancer |
| Resting place | Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry Russian Orthodox Monastery near Luzé, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1941–1985 |
| Spouse(s) |
Virginia Gilmore (m. 1944; div. 1960) Doris Kleiner (m. 1960; div. 1967) Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume (m. 1971; div. 1981) Kathy Lee (m. 1983; his death 1985) |
Yul Brynner (born Yuliy Borisovich Briner, Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Swiss film and stage actor.
Brynner was best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut 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 also starred as Ramesses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster The Ten Commandments, and played General Bounine in the 1956 film Anastasia, and the gunman 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.
Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner July 11, 1920 in Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia). He enjoyed telling tall tales and exaggerating his background and early life for the press, claiming that he was born "Taidje Khan" of part-Mongol parentage, on the Russian island of Sakhalin. In reality of Swiss-German and Russian ancestry, he was born at home in a four-story residence at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok. He had an elder sister, Vera. He occasionally referred to himself as Julius Briner, Jules Bryner or Youl Bryner. The 1989 biography by his son, Rock Brynner, clarified some of these issues.
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