Acting

Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner es conocido sobre todo por The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Oscars, What's My Line? y The Ed Sullivan Show. Yul Brynner nació el 11 de julio de 1920. Yul Brynner murió el 10 de octubre de 1985 a los 65 años.

Nacimiento: 11 de julio de 1920
Lugar de nacimiento: Vladivostok, Russia
Fallecimiento: 10 de octubre de 1985 (65 años)

Biografía

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.