Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/11/1920
Place of Birth
Vladivostok, Russia
Also Known As
Yuli Borisovich Bryner
Yul Brynner
Biography
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...
Known For
Adiós, Sabata
as Sabata / Indio Black
The Ten Commandments
as Rameses
Cast a Giant Shadow
as Asher Gonen
Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Romance of a Horsethief
as Captain Stoloff
The Magnificent Seven
as Chris Adams
Flight from Ashiya
as TSgt. Mike Takashima
The Sound and the Fury
as Jason Compson
The File of the Golden Goose
as Peter Novak
Westworld
as The Gunslinger
The Battle of Neretva
as Vlado
The Madwoman of Chaillot
as The Chairman
The Light at the Edge of the World
as Jonathan Kongre
The Journey
as Major Surov
Return of the Seven
as Chris Adams
Solomon and Sheba
as Solomon
Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
as Self (archive footage)
Broadway's Lost Treasures
as The King of Siam (segment "The King and I")
Once More, with Feeling!
as Victor Fabian
Triple Cross
as Baron von Grunen