Yul Brynner
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Yul Brynner (July 7, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an actor born in Vladivostok, Russia who appeared in many movies and stage productions. His mother was Russian and his father was the Swiss-Mongolian consul general to Russia.
Brynner's early life was exotic, but he made it out to be even more exotic than it actually was, for example, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Japanese parentage on the island of Sakhalin. A biography published by his son in 1989 clarified these issues.
Brynner's best-known role was that of King Mongkut of Siam in both the stage and film versions of the musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award as Best Actor. He is one of only seven people who have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award (Oscar) for the same role.
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He made an immediate impact upon first starring in films in 1956, appearing not only in The King and I that year, but also in major roles in The Ten Commandments and Anastasia. He later starred in such films as Solomon and Sheba (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), and Westworld (1973).
Brynner died in New York City at the age of either 65 or 70 of lung cancer caused by smoking on October 10, 1985 (the same day as Orson Welles). In January 1985, nine months before his death, he gave an interview on Good Morning America, expressing his desire to make an anti-smoking commercial. A clip from that interview was made into just such a commercial by the American Cancer Society, and released after his death.
Yul Brynner is interred in the cemetery at the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry monastery in Luze, near Poitiers, Vienne, France.
He has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Blvd.
Children
- Yul Brynner Jr.
- Rock Brynner, University history lecturer
- Four daughters
Filmography
- Port of New York (1949)
- The King and I (1956)
- The Ten Commandments (1956)
- Anastasia (1956)
- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
- The Buccaneer (1958)
- The Journey (1959)
- The Sound and the Fury (1959)
- Solomon and Sheba (1959)
- Once More, with Feeling (1960)
- The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
- Surprise Package (1960)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Goodbye Again (1961)
- Escape from Zahrain (1962)
- Taras Bulba (1962)
- Kings of the Sun (1963)
- Flight from Ashiya (1964)
- Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
- Morituri (1965)
- Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
- The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
- Return of the Seven (1966)
- Triple Cross (1967)
- The Double Man (1967)
- The Long Duel (1967)
- Villa Rides (1968)
- The Battle of Neretva (1968)
- The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
- The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
- The Magic Christian (1969) (Cameo)
- Adios Sabata (1971)
- The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
- Romance of a Horsethief (1971)
- Catlow (1971)
- Fuzz (1972)
- On Location with Westworld (1973) (short subject)
- The Serpent (1973)
- Westworld (1973)
- The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
- Death Rage (1976)
- Futureworld (1976)
- Lost in the Revolution (1980) (short subject) (narrator)
External links
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- More on his 1985 Good Morning America interview (http://www.tvacres.com/tobacco.htm)de:Yul Brynner
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