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 Yul Brynner
Birthday: 7 July 1915Below
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Biography
Exotic leading man of American films, famed as much for his
completely bald head as for his performances. Brynner masked much
of his life in mystery and in outright lies designed to tease the
gullible, and it was not until the publication of a biography by
his son in 1989 that many of the details of Brynner's early life
became clear(er). He often claimed to be a half-Swiss, half-
Japanese named Taidje Khan, born on the island of Sakhalin; in
reality he was the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolian engineer
and inventor, and Marousia Blagavidova, the daughter of a Russian
doctor. He was born in their hometown of Vladivostok on 11 July
1920, and named Yul after his grandfather Jules Bryner. When Yul's
father abandoned the family, his mother took Yul and his sister
Vera to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the
YMCA. In 1934, Yul's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was
sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was
spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the
nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real
sense of family. He met luminaries such as 'Jean Cocteau' (qv) and
became an apprentice at the Theatre des Mathurins. He worked as a
trapeze artists with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company. He traveled
to the U.S . in 1941 to study with acting teacher 'Michael Chekhov'
(qv) and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe. That
same year he debuted in New York as Fabian in Twelfth Night (billed
as Youl Bryner). After working in a very early TV series, "Mr.
Jones and His Neighbors", he played on Broadway in Lute Song, with
'Mary Martin', winning awards and mild acclaim. He and his wife,
actress 'Virginia Gilmore' (qv), starred in the first TV talk show,
"Mr. and Mrs." Brynner then joined CBS as a television director. He
made his film debut in _Port of New York (1949)_ (qv). Two years
later, Mary Martin recommended him for the part he would always be
known for, the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King
and I. Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating
it for film and winning the Oscar for Best Actor. For the next two
decades, he maintained a starring film career despite exotic nature
of his persona, performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian
pharoahs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the same shaven
head and indefinable accent. In the 1970s, he returned to the role
that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life
touring the world in The King and I. When he developed lung cancer
in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement
denouncing smoking as the cause, for broadcast after his death. The
cancer and its complications, after a long illness, ended his life.
But he remains one of the most fascinating, unusual, and beloved
stars of his time.
Biography courtesy of the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood(2001)
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[ Robert Culp ] [ Eddie Fisher ] [ Mel Gibson ] [ Rock Hudson ]
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Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'(2000)
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Alma Cogan: The Girl with the Giggle In Her Voice(1991)
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[ Cliff Richard ] [ Adam Faith ]
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Lost to the Revolution(1980)
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Con la rabbia agli occhi(1976)
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[ Martin Balsam ]
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Futureworld(1976)
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[ Peter Fonda ]
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Indesiderabili, Gli(1976)
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Ultimate Warrior, The(1975)
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Westworld(1973)
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[ James Brolin ]
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Serpent, Le(1972)
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[ Farley Granger ]
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Fuzz(1972)
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[ Burt Reynolds ] [ John Holmes ]
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Adiós, Sabata(1971)
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Light at the Edge of the World, The(1971)
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Catlow(1971)
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[ Leonard Nimoy ]
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Romance of a Horsethief(1971)
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[ Eli Wallach ]
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Madwoman of Chaillot, The(1969)
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[ John Gavin ] [ Richard Chamberlain ]
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Bitka na Neretvi(1969)
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[ Franco Nero ]
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File of the Golden Goose, The(1969)
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Magic Christian, The(1969)
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[ Graham Chapman ] [ Graham Stark ] [ John Cleese ]
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Villa Rides(1968)
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[ Frank Wolff ]
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Long Duel, The(1967)
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[ Edward Fox ]
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Double Man, The(1967)
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Fantastique histoire vraie d'Eddie Chapman, La(1967)
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Return of the Seven(1966)
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[ Claude Akins ]
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Poppies Are Also Flowers(1966)
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[ Omar Sharif ] [ Eli Wallach ]
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Cast a Giant Shadow(1966)
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Morituri(1965)
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[ Marlon Brando ]
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Invitation to a Gunfighter(1964)
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[ George Segal ]
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Flight from Ashiya(1964)
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[ George Chakiris ]
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Kings of the Sun(1963)
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[ George Chakiris ]
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Taras Bulba(1962)
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Escape from Zahrain(1962)
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Goodbye Again(1961)
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[ Anthony Perkins ]
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Magnificent Seven, The(1960)
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[ Eli Wallach ]
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Surprise Package(1960)
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[ Warren Mitchell ]
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Once More, with Feeling(1960)
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Testament d'Orphée, Le(1960)
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Journey, The(1959)
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[ Billy Crystal ]
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Sound and the Fury, The(1959)
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Solomon and Sheba(1959)
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Brothers Karamazov, The(1958)
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Buccaneer, The(1958)
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[ Anthony Quinn ] [ Charlton Heston ]
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Ten Commandments, The(1956)
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[ Charlton Heston ] [ John Derek ]
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King and I, The(1956)
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[ Ian Richardson ]
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Anastasia(1956)
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General Foods Anniversary Show: A Tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein (Made for TV)(1954)
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Port of New York(1949)
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