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Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner

Actor · 1920 – 1985 · Vladivostok, Russia

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.

Movies24

  • Movie7.8

    The Ten Commandments

    1956 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Magnificent Seven

    1960 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Westworld

    1973 · 1.5K votes

  • Movie7.1

    The King and I

    1956 · 419 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Futureworld

    1976 · 374 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Cast a Giant Shadow

    1966 · 64 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Return of the Seven

    1966 · 316 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Villa Rides

    1968 · 67 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Triple Cross

    1966 · 86 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Solomon and Sheba

    1959 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.3

    The Journey

    1959 · 27 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Bitka na Neretvi

    The Battle of Neretva

    1969 · 59 votes

  • Movie7.1

    Goodbye Again

    1961 · 42 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Night of 100 Stars II

    1985 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Buccaneer

    1958 · 52 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Kings of the Sun

    1963 · 50 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Anastasia

    1956 · 192 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Brothers Karamazov

    1958 · 52 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.0
  • Movie5.8

    The Ultimate Warrior

    1975 · 69 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie5.9
  • Movie7.3

    The Madwoman of Chaillot

    1969 · 12 votes

Series13

  • TV7.5
  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV
  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV6.9

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1950 · 13 votes

  • TV7.0

    Omnibus

    1952 · 4 votes

  • TV8.7

    Cinépanorama

    1956 · 3 votes

  • TV5.0

    Reflets de Cannes

    1954 · 2 votes

  • TV7.4

    Anna and the King

    1972 · 8 votes