Birthday
1920-07-11Place of Birth
Vladivostok, RussiaBiography
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born American actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film version; he also played the role more than 4,500 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in Anastasia and Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for his initial role in The King and I. He was also a photographer and the author of two books.
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Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020
6.8
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
2020
The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003
8
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
7.2
as Self (archive footage)
1995
The Light at the Edge of the World
1971
6
as Jonathan Kongre
1971