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
The Ten Commandments
as Rameses
Surprise Package
as Nico March
Westworld
as The Gunslinger
Futureworld
as The Gunslinger
Goodbye Again
as Extra in Nightclub Scene
The Serpent
as Col. Alexi Vlassov
The Journey
as Major Surov
The Magnificent Seven
as Chris Adams
Triple Cross
as Baron von Grunen
The Sound and the Fury
as Jason Compson
Anastasia
as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
Morituri
as Captain Müller
The Light at the Edge of the World
as Jonathan Kongre
Fuzz
as The Deaf Man
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
as Colonel Salem
Return of the Seven
as Chris Adams
The King and I
as King Mongkut of Siam
Kings of the Sun
as Chief Black Eagle
Taras Bulba
as Taras Bulba
Escape from Zahrain
as Sharif