Yul Brynner
Birthday: 1920-07-11
Place of Birth: Vladivostok, Russia
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 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 Man Who Was King
There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and hi...
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The Magnificent Seven
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Westworld
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Futureworld
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Ingrid Bergman Remembered
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Triple Cross
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The Buccaneer
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The Ten Commandments
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of...
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Port of New York
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The Ultimate Warrior
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Return of the Seven
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The Battle of Neretva
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Chauves, la revanche
They take over on the fields of sport and show business. For a few years, bald people took a sensati...
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Solomon and Sheba
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-...
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Testament of Orpheus
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he ...
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Morituri
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Taras Bulba
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The Brothers Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who hol...
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The Serpent
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes ov...
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Anastasia
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a de...
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The King and I
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Villa Rides
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins band...
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Kings of the Sun
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gul...
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The File of the Golden Goose
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a ...
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Adiós, Sabata
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor ...
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The Light at the Edge of the World
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to...
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Invitation to a Gunfighter
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Catlow
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery...
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The Journey
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary....
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The Long Duel
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability ...
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The Double Man
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer...
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Death Rage
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia king...
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the t...
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Escape from Zahrain
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squ...
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Flight from Ashiya
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air F...
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
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The Sound and the Fury
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of th...
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Romance of a Horsethief
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Once More, with Feeling!
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with...
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Surprise Package
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor....
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Broadway's Lost Treasures
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which...
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Cast a Giant Shadow
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is di...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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The Magic Christian
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out...
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Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the word...
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Goodbye Again
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son...
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Flowers from a Stranger
The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous deliv...
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Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, ...
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On Location with Westworld
This promotional short shows what went on behind the scenes during the shooting of the science ficti...
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Flowers from a Stranger
The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous deliv...
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Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the...
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The Making of The Ten Commandments
Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as ...
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