Yul Brynner

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Yul Brynner (born in the United States and Europe) first became known for his portrayal of King Mongkut of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein film version, for which he received two Tony Awards and an Academy Award.

He appeared on stage 4,625 times.

In the Cecil B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments (1956), he appeared as Ramesses II.

In the film Anastasia (also 1956), the gunman Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960) and its first sequel Return of the Seven, as well as its sequel Futureworld (1976).Brynner was known for his shaved head, which he carried on as a personal mark long after adopting it in 1951 for his role in The King and I. He was a model and television producer, as well as a photographer and author of two books.

Early life in Russia

Yul Brynner was born in Vladivostok, Yul Borisovich Briner, on July 11, 1920. He had Swiss-German, Russian, Buryat (Mongol) and purported Romani ancestry. In Siberia and the Far East, he was born at his parents' house, a four-story house on 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok, and became a wealthy Swiss-Russian family of landowners and silver mining developers. At the time, the Far Eastern Republic and Vladivostok were partially under Japanese occupation. The Briner family lived well at their four-story mansion. The Red Army occupied Vladivistok in October 1922, putting an end to all economic and political rights, ensuring Yul's family was sacked by the Soviets, and the bulk of their income was confiscated and nationalized at the end of the Russian Civil War. Parents in Yul were deprived of their house, but the family, including an elder sister, Vera, continued to live in their house under a temporary residence and conditioned obedience to the new Soviet authorities.

On the Russian island of Sakhalin, Brynner amusingly enjoyed tall tales and exaggerating his past and early life for the press, saying that he was born Taidje Khan of a Mongol father and Roma mother. Julius Briner, Jules Bryner, or Youl Bryner used to refer to himself as Julius Briner, Jules Bryner, or Youl Bryner. Rock Brynner's 1989 biography clarified certain of these topics.

Boris Yuliyevich Briner, Brynner's uncle, was a mining engineer and entrepreneur of Swiss-German and Russian descent who graduated from Mining University in Saint Petersburg in 1910. Jules Briner, the actor's grandfather, was a Swiss citizen who moved to Vladivostok in the 1870s and established a successful import/export company. Natalya Kurkutova, Brynner's paternal grandmother, was a descendant of Irkutsk and a partial Buryat ancestor.

Marousia Dimitrievna (née Blagovidova), Brynner's mother, was praised from the Russian intelligentsia and trained to be a Russian Romani artist and singer; she was reportedly of Russian Romani origins. Brynner felt a strong personal connection to the Roman people, and in 1977 he was named honorary president of the International Romani Union, a distinction he retained until his death.

Boris Briner, Yul's father, was compelled by the Soviets to relinquish his Swiss citizenship, and all family members were forcibly made Soviet citizens in 1922, shortly after the establishment of the Soviet Union. Yul's father's job necessitated extensive travel, and he fell in love with Katerina Korna Korna Korna, the ex-wife of actor Aleksei Dikiy and stage companion of Michael Chekhov at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1923. Katerina Kornakova would assist Brynner in his letter of suggestion, asking Michael Chekhov to work with him in America's theatre company. Yul's father divorced his mother in 1924 and continued to help her and his children. Brynner's father adopted a child because his new wife was childless, and several years later, after his father's death, his adopted sister would be taken care of by his father. For a young Yul, the father and son relationship was still complicated and emotionally traumatic. Boris Briner and Katerina Ivanovna Kornakova briefly lived in Vladivostok, but soon moved to Harbin, Manchuria, which at the time was still under Japanese rule. Yul's uncle, and the Briners established a family business that was active in international trade.

Personal life

Although Brynner, a naturalized American citizen living in Bern, Switzerland, resigned his US citizenship as an American resident working abroad, he explained it in June 1965. He had been in the United States for too long, indicating that his tax and penalty payments levied by the Internal Revenue Service would be bankrupted.

In 2006, Rock wrote Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond, a memoir about his father and his family's history. He attended the "Pacific Meridian" Film Festival in Vladivostok, the city of his father's birth.

Brynner's throat was swollen, his voice was changed, and doctors discovered a lump on his vocal cords in September 1983. He received the test results in Los Angeles, just hours before his 4,000th appearance in The King and I, indicating that he had inoperable lung cancer, although his throat was not affected. Although being unaware that smoking is by a large margin the leading risk factor for lung cancer, Brynner began smoking heavily from age 12. Despite the fact that he had resigned in 1971, his advertisements featured him with a cigarette in hand or a cigar in his mouth. He and the national tour of the musical were forced to miss a few months due to a side effect that weakened his throat and made it impossible for him to sing or talk easily. The tour was then revived.

The tour ended in 1985 with a farewell Broadway performance in New York. Brynner, who was dying, appeared on Good Morning America about the risks of smoking and expressing his desire to create an anti-smoking company. The King and I performed on Broadway from January 7 to June 30 of this year, with Mary Beth Peil as Anna. He appeared for the last time as the King, just a few months before his death.

Brynner, in addition to his work as a producer and performer, was a keen photographer and wrote two books. Yul Brynner: Photographer, a series of his photographs of family, acquaintances, and colleagues, as well as those he shot while serving as a UN refugee advisor.

Brynner's book Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to Europe and the Middle East (1960), with photographs by himself and Magnum photographer Inge Morath, and The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit for the King and You (1983, ISBN 0-8128-8).

He was also a natural guitarist and singer. He performed and sang gypsy songs in Parisian nightclubs with Aliosha Dimitrievitch in his early years in Europe. In the film The Brothers Karamazov, he performed some of the same songs. Dimitrievitch and I released a solo album The Gypsy and I: Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs (Vanguard VSD 79265).

Brynner married four times, with his first three marriages ending in divorce. He fathered three children and adopted two others. Yul "Rock" Brynner, his first wife (1944-1901) was his first wife (1944-1960) with whom he had just one child, Yul "Rock" Brynner (born December 23, 1946). When he was six years old, he was dubbed "Rock" in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano. At Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut, he is a historian, novelist, and university history lecturer.

Yul Brynner had a long association with Marlene Dietrich, who was 19 years old at the first appearance of The King and I.

Frankie Tilden, a 20-year-old girl from 1959, fathered Lark Brynner. Lark and her mother were raised with her mother, and Brynner helped her financially. Doris Kleiner, a Chilean model who married on the set during the shooting of The Magnificent Seven in 1960, was his second wife, from 1960 to 1967. Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn, was their only child. Monique Watteau, a Belgian novelist and artist, was also romantically linked to Brynner from 1961 to 1967. Roman Polanski was rumored to produce a "threesome" video with Sharon Tate and Brynner in 1969.

Jacqueline Simone Thion de la Chaume (1932–2013), a French socialite, was Philippe de Croisset's widow (son of French playwright Francis de Croisset and a publishing executive), his third wife (1971-1981) (1971–1981). Mia (1974) and Melody (1975), two Vietnamese children, were adopted by Brynner and Jacqueline. Brynner's first home was the Manoir de Criquebuf, a 16th-century manor house in northwestern France that Jacqueline and he bought. His third marriage broke up after his 1980 vow that he will keep the King for another long tour and Broadway run, as well as his dealings with female supporters and his mistreatment of his wife and children.

Kathy Lee (born 1957), a 26-year-old ballerina from Ipoh, Malaysia, whom he had seen in a production of The King and I, married Brynner on April 4, 1983, aged 62. For the first two years of his marriage, the couple was married. Meredith A. Disney and her sons Charles Elias Disney and Daniel H. Disney attended Brynner and Lee's last performances of The King and I.

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Career

In 1941, Brynner made his Broadway debut in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, which premiered on the 2nd of December 1941. Brynner came as Fabian but delivered just a few lines in his broken English with a distinct Russian accent. The job helped him to begin adding English to the list of languages he spoke, which included French, Japanese, Hungarian, and some Russian. After the assault on Pearl Harbor, as America declared war on Japan and Nazi Germany, the show was soon closed, as had many other Broadway shows. At the Voice of America radio station, Brynner found work as a radio commentator delivering war news in French and Russian. He had no acting work in the next few years, but he did appear in a 1946 version of Lute Song with Mary Martin, among other acting stints. He also did some modelling work and was photographed nude by George Platt Lynes.

In 1944, Brynner's first marriage was to actress Virginia Gilmore, and shortly after that he began working as a director at the new CBS television studios, he began working as a producer. In 1948 and 1949, he produced and appeared on television with his wife in the first two seasons of Studio One, as well as other series.

Brynner made his film debut in Port of New York in November 1949, when he was first published in November 1949.

The next year, at Martin Brynner's behest, will be cast for Rodgers and Hammerstein's latest New York production. He recalled that although he was succeeding as a producer on television, he was reluctant to return to the stage. However, after reading the script, he became captivated by the King's character and was eager to participate in the drama.

In The King and I (4,625 times on stage), Brynner's appearance as King Mongkut was his most well-known part. He appeared in the original 1951 and later touring productions, as well as a 1977 Broadway revival, a London production in 1979, and another Broadway revival in 1985. For the first time in these Broadway productions and a special Tony for the last, he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 1956, he reprised his role in the film version, for which he received an Academy Award as Best Actor and in Anna and the King. A short-lived TV version on CBS in 1972. Brynner is one of only ten people to have been rewarded both a Tony and an Academy Award for the same job.

In 1951, Brynner shaved his head for his role in The King and I. Following the success of the Broadway production and subsequent film Brynner's, he shaved his head for the remainder of his life, but he wore a wig for specific roles. The shaven head of Brynner was unusual at the time, and his striking appearance gave him a rare celebrity. Some fans shaved their hair to imitate him, and a shaven head was often described as the "Yul Brynner look."

The second motion picture by Brynner was the film version of The King and I (1956) with Deborah Kerr. It was a massive success both technically and commercially.

After seeing him on stage as The King and I, Cecil B. de Mille hired Brynner for The Ten Commandments (1956) to play Ramesses II opposite Charlton Heston, tells Brynner backstage that he was the only one for the role. He came to an end with Anastasia (1956), co-starring Ingrid Bergman under the direction of Anatole Litvak. Both films were huge hits, and Brynner made a name for herself in Hollywood by becoming one of Hollywood's most in-demand actors.

Brynner was named as one of the Brothers Karamazov (1958), which was another commercial success. Brynner co-starred with Heston in Jean Lafitte (1958), but less so was The Buccaneer (1958), in which Brynner appeared in Jean Lafitte; the film was produced by De Mille and directed by Anthony Quinn.

In The Journey (1959), opposite Kerr under the direction of Litvak, MGM used Brynner once more, but the film lost money. The Sound and the Fury (1959), based on William Faulkner's book with Joanne Woodward, also appeared on television.

However, Brynner was later offered to substitute Tyrone Power, who had died during the construction of Solomon and Sheba (1959) with Gina Lollobrigida. The film was a big success, and it delayed the completion of a long-awaited Brynner film about Spartacus. When Brynner's Kirk Douglas film Spartacus (1960) came out, he did not make his own version.

With two films directed by Stanley Donen, Brynner tried comedy. See More, With Feeling! (1960) and the Surprise Package (1960), but political reactions were underwhelming. In the Testament of Orpheus, he made a cameo.

Despite the fact that the public adored him in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a Westernization of Seven Samurai for The Mirisch Company, the film was a disappointment on its first appearance in the United States. However, it was extremely popular in Europe and has held enduring fame. Brynner's signing of a three-picture contract with the Mirisches as a result of the event's triumph. The film was particularly popular in the Soviet Union, where it sold 67 million tickets. In Goodbye Again (1961), he made a cameo.

Brynner concentrated on action films. He did Escape from Zahrain (1962), with Ronald Neame as director, and Taras Bulba (1962), with Tony Curtis for J. Lee Thompson. Both films were commercial disappointments; Taras Bulba was well-known but it was unable to recover its high cost.

Flight from Ashiya (1963) with George Chakiris was the first film under Brynner's three-picture contract with Mirisch. It was followed by Kings of the Sun (1963), as well as Chakiris directed by Thompson. Neither film was particularly popular, nor was Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964), a western. Morituri (1965), a Marlon Brando film, failed to turn around a string of failed films. Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) and The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966).

With Return of the Seven (1966), Brynner resurrecting his role from the original. Triple Cross (1966), a war film starring Christopher Plummer, was less popular, as well as The Long Duel (1967), an Imperial adventure tale starring Trevor Howard; Villa Rides (1968), a Western; and The File of the Golden Goose (1969).

In a war film called Battle of Negoslavia (1969), Brynner went to Yugoslavia to star in Battle of Nevy (1969). In the big-budget flop The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969), he favored Katharine Hepburn. In an unbilled role in Peter Sellers' comedy The Magic Christian (1969), Brynner appeared in drag (as a torch singer) in an unbilled role.

Later career

Brynner went to Italy to make a Spaghetti Western, Adiós, Sabata (1970) and also helped Kirk Douglas in The Light at the Edge of the World (1971). He remained in lead roles for Romance of a Horsethief (1971) and a Western Catlow (1971).

Brynner appeared in Fuzz (1972), but he reprised his most well-known role in the television series Anna and the King (1972), which lasted for 13 episodes.

Brynner created one of his classic roles in the cult hit film Westworld (1973) as the 'Gunslinger,' a killer robot on night Flight from Moscow (1973) in Europe. His next two films were based on this image: The Ultimate Warrior (1975) and Futureworld (1976).

In Home Sweet Homer, a notorious flop musical, Brynner returned to Broadway. Death Rage (1976), an Italian action film, was his last film.

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Awards

• In 1952, he received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of the King in The King and I. In 1985, he received a special Tony Award honoring his 4625 performances in The King and I.
• He won the 1956 Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the King of Siam in the film version of The King and I, and made the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" list in both 1957 and 1958.
• In 1960, he was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star at 6162 Hollywood Boulevard.