Yul Brynner was a Russian-born stage and film actor. 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 onstage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille blockbuster 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. Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Bryner in 1920. He exaggerated his background and early life for the press, claiming that he was born Taidje Khan of part-Mongol-Tatar parentage, on the Russian island of Sakhalin. In reality, he was born at home in a four-storey residence at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok, in the Far Eastern Republic .
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| Birthdate: | July 11, 1920 |
| Birthplace: | Vladivostok |
| Date of death: | October 10, 1985 |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Education: | YMCA |
| Also known as: | Yuliy Borisovich Brynner, Yul Borisovich Bryner |