Yul Brynner profile
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Yul Brynner

11th July 1920 Vladivostok, Russia Acting

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.

55 Movies 13 TV Shows 69 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Fuzz poster
Fuzz 14th July 1972 as The Deaf Man
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Catlow 1st October 1971 as Catlow
Morituri poster
Morituri 24th August 1965 as Captain Müller
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Anastasia 13th December 1956 as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine