Nickname:	Yul Brynner / Yul Brinner /
Known for:	The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The King and I
Birth name:	Yuli Borisovich Bryner
Birthday:	11 July 1915, Vladivostok, Russian Empire (now Vladivostok, Russia)
Height:	5' 8" (1.73 m)

In 1950, before he achieved fame, he was the director of a children's puppet show on CBS, Life with Snarky Parker, which lasted barely eight months on the air before cancellation. Son Yul 'Rock' Brynner II (b. 23 December 1946) Daughter Lark, born out of wedlock and raised by her mother, (b.1958) Daughter Victoria Brynner (b. November 1962 in Switzerland) Daughter Mia Brynner (adopted 1974, born in Vietnam) Daughter Melody Brynner (adopted 1975, born in Vietnam) Interred at Saint Robert Churchyard at the Monastery of Saint Michael, La Tourraine, France. Brynner married Doris Kleiner on the set during shooting of 'The Magnificent Seven' in 1960. His paternal grandmother was Mongolian. Is a recipient of the presitigious Connor Award, given by the brothers of the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity based out of Emerson College in Boston. Died the same day as Orson Welles One of only eight actors to have won both a Tony and an Oscar for having portrayed the same roles on stage and screen. The others are Joel Grey (Cabaret), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons), José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac) and Jack Albertson ((Subject Was Roses, The (1968)_ ). While touring in the play "Odyssey" in the mid-1970s, Brynner attained a reputation of being a holy terror toward hotel staff members. Among other things, all hotel suites where he would stay had to be painted a certain shade of tan and all kitchens in those hotel suites had to be stocked in advance with "one dozen brown eggs, under no circumstances white ones!" The play itself, later retitled "Home, Sweet Homer", had a successful pre-Broadway tour of over a year, but lasted exactly one performance when it opened on Broadway in 1976. He was an accomplished photographer. He took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years. Mentioned in the popular mid-1980s song "One Night in Bangkok," sung by Murray Head, from the soundtrack of the musical Chess. When he found out he would be playing Pharaoh Rameses II opposite Charlton Heston's Moses in The Ten Commandments and that he would be shirtless for most of the film, he began a rigorous weight lifting program because he did not want to be physically overshadowed by Charlton Heston (which explains his buffer than normal physique during The King and I another film he was set to work on at the time.) A recording of him explaining how being bald helped him is included in a song by Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement) entitled "Jo Jo's Jacket". The first verses are about Brynner and include a reference to Westworld and The King and I. Won Broadway's 1952 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "The King and I," a role he recreated in his Oscar-winning performance in the film of the same name, The King and I. He also won a second, Special Tony in 1985 "honoring his 4,525 performances in 'The King and I'." Died of the same cause (lung cancer) as The Magnificent Seven co- star Steve McQueen. Is the only actor to appear in both The Magnificent Seven and it first sequel, Return of the Magnificent Seven. He did not, however, appear in either of other sequels, Guns of the Magnificent Seven and The Magnificent Seven Ride!. Appeared in three different films with Eli Wallach: The Magnificent Seven, The Poppy Is Also a Flower and Romance of a Horsethief. Apprentice of Michael Chekhov Brynner married Doris Kleiner on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven. One of only eight actors to have won both a Tony and an Oscar for having portrayed the same roles on stage and screen. The others are Joel Grey (Cabaret), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons), José Ferrer (_Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)_ ) and Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses). Three of his films were remade in the late 1990s, in rapid succession, as animated films: The King and I and Anastasia were remade as animated films of the same name The King and I, Anastasia) and The Ten Commandments was remade as The Prince of Egypt. Sometimes claimed that he was part-Japanese, that his birth name was Taidje Khan and that he hailed from the Russian island of Sakhalin. He was actually born as Yul Borisovich Bryner to a Swiss/Mongolian father and a Russian-Jewish mother.

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