Yul Brynner

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-07-11 (65 years old)

Deathday

1985-10-10

Place of Birth

Vladivostok, Russia

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 personal trademark long after adopting it for his...

Acting

1995

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King

as Self (archive footage)

1960

The Magnificent Seven

as Chris Adams

1973

Westworld

as The Gunslinger

1976

Futureworld

as The Gunslinger

1996

Ingrid Bergman Remembered

as Self (archive footage)

1966

Triple Cross

as Baron von Grunen

1958

The Buccaneer

as Jean Lafitte

1972

Fuzz

as The Deaf Man

1956

1949

Port of New York

as Paul Vicola

1966

Return of the Seven

as Chris Adams

2023

Chauves, la revanche

as Self (archive footage)

1959

1960

Testament of Orpheus

as Court Usher (uncredited)

1965

Morituri

as Captain Müller

1962

Taras Bulba

as Taras Bulba

1958

The Brothers Karamazov

as Dmitri Karamazov

1973

The Serpent

as Col. Alexi Vlassov

1956

Anastasia

as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine

1956

The King and I

as King Mongkut of Siam

1968

Villa Rides

as Pancho Villa

1963

Kings of the Sun

as Chief Black Eagle

2015

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

as Self (archive footage)

1970

Adiós, Sabata

as Sabata / Indio Black

1964

Invitation to a Gunfighter

as Jules Gaspard d'Estaing

1971

Catlow

as Catlow

1959

The Journey

as Major Surov

1967

The Long Duel

as Sultan

1967

The Double Man

as Dan Slater / Kalmar

1976

Death Rage

as Peter Marciani

1969

1962

1964

Flight from Ashiya

as TSgt. Mike Takashima

1966

1959

The Sound and the Fury

as Jason Compson

1971

Romance of a Horsethief

as Captain Stoloff

1960

Once More, with Feeling!

as Victor Fabian

2002

My Sister Maria

as Himself (archive)

1960

Surprise Package

as Nico March

2003

Broadway's Lost Treasures

as The King of Siam (segment "The King and I")

1966

Cast a Giant Shadow

as Asher Gonen

1969

The Magic Christian

as Transvestite Cabaret Singer

1961

Goodbye Again

as Extra in Nightclub Scene

1976

It's Showtime

as Self (archive footage)

1949

2015

Spanish Western

as Self (archive footage)

1973

On Location with Westworld

as Self (uncredited)

1950

2020

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

2024

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Making of The Ten Commandments

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1958

Houseboat

as Still Photographer

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