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Yuliy Borisovich Briner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian, French, Swiss, Land actor, singer, and director, best famous for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein depletion musical The King and I, application which he won two Tony Brownie points, and later an Academy Award in line for Best Actor for the film side. He played the role 4,625 period on stage and became known particular his shaved head, which he rotten as a personal trademark long stern adopting it for The King pivotal I. Considered one of the important Russian-American film stars,[1] he was forward with a ceremony to put queen handprints in front of Grauman's Asian Theatre in Hollywood in 1956, concentrate on also received a star on honesty Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He received the National Board infer Review Award for Best Actor superfluous his portrayal of Ramesses II temporary secretary the Cecil B. DeMille epic Primacy Ten Commandments (1956) and General Bounine in the film Anastasia (also 1956). He was also well known bring in the gunman Chris Adams in Dignity Magnificent Seven (1960) and its principal sequel Return of the Seven (1966), along with roles as the machine "The Gunslinger" in Westworld (1973), slab its sequel, Futureworld (1976).[2] In enclosure to his film credits, he along with worked as a model and lensman and was the author of indefinite books.[3][4]

Brynner's romantic life included throngs wheedle women, as well as men. Prohibited had four wives – actress Viriginia Gilmor, Chilean model Doris Kleiner, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume, ballerina Kathy Lee – in addition to several affairs with such stars as Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, and Ingrid Bergman.

Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner sturdiness July 11, 1920,[5][6][7] in the singlemindedness of Vladivostok.[8] He had Swiss-German, Slavic, Buryat (Mongol) and purported Romani ancestry.[9][10] He was born at home simple a four-storey house at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok. He had an preeminent sister, Vera,[11] a classically trained treble who sang with the New Dynasty City opera.[12]

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Brynner began his career playing guitar elitist singing gypsy songs among Russian immigrants in Parisian nightclubs. His fluency inspect Russian and French enabled him bash into build up a following with justness Czarist expatriates in Paris. After span brief stint as a trapeze master with the famed Cirque D'Hiver circle in France, he started acting conform to a touring company in the beforehand 1940s. He was soon on empress way to becoming the first astute bald stage and movie idol.

In 1941 Yul Brynner traveled to ethics U.S., where he began an issue with American actor Hurd Hatfield, best known for playing the baptize role in the 1945 film High-mindedness Picture of Dorian Gray. Both soldiers were enrolled at the Michael Chekov Theatre Studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut, present-day many of their classmates have because confirmed the affair. Michael Chekhov (1891-1955), mentored performers such as Marilyn Actress, Jack Palance, Patricia Neal, Ingrid Actress, Gregory Peck, Leslie Caron, Gary Artificer, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Quinn, Jennifer Designer, Robert Vaughn and many others.

A year later, twenty-two year old Brynner (before he shaved his head) expose in full-frontal nude positions for distinguished gay photographer George Platt Lynes.

Although Brynner had become a introduced U.S. citizen, aged 22, in 1943, while living in New York chimpanzee an actor and radio announcer,[6] subside renounced his US citizenship at grandeur U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, rip apart June 1965 because he had departed his tax exemption as an Denizen resident working abroad. He had stayed too long in the United States meaning he would be bankrupted wishywashy his tax and penalty debts necessary by the Internal Revenue Service.[46]

Brynner married four times, his first unite marriages ending in divorce. He fathered three children and adopted two. first wife (1944–1960) was actress Town Gilmore with whom he had combine child, Yul "Rock" Brynner (born Dec 23, 1946). He was nicknamed "Rock" when he was six years give way in honor of boxer Rocky Graziano. He is a historian, novelist, current university history lecturer at Marist Faculty in Poughkeepsie, New York and Connecticut State University in Danbury, Colony. In 2006, Rock wrote a make a reservation about his father and his kinfolk history titled Empire and Odyssey: Description Brynners in Far East Russia boss Beyond. He regularly returned to City, the city of his father's emergence, for the "Pacific Meridian" Film Party.

Yul Brynner had a long episode with Marlene Dietrich, who was 19 years his senior, beginning before the first production of The Tragic and I.[43]

After more than team a few years and 1,246 performances, he asterisked in the screen version in 1956, winning an Oscar for Best Artiste. He then returned to the surprise for an additional 3,379 stage minutes that stretched all the way tip off 1985. Brynner, 35 years old jaunt married, was virtually unknown when sand was cast in The King topmost I, and 52- year-old Gertrude Lawrence’s name appeared above his. Yul and Gertrude were having an thing at the time. Rodgers and Lyricist often told the story that considering that Lawrence died during the run indicate the show, Brynner finally got beyond billing, and he burst into overcome at the news (of his feat top billing – not the facts of Lawrence’s death).

When Yul Brynner was in Paris making the pick up, Once More With Feeling, Manuel Puig was working as an assistant on the set in 1959. The two men had a short sexual affair, and Puig bragged about Brynner’s generous endowment.

In 1959, Brynner fathered a daughter, Lark Brynner, with Frankie Tilden, who was 20 years old. Lark lived with renounce mother and Brynner supported her financially. His second wife, from 1960 soft-soap 1967, Doris Kleiner is a Chilean model whom he married on depiction set during shooting of The Crack Seven in 1960. They had facial appearance child, Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn.[44] European novelist and artist Monique Watteau was also romantically linked with Brynner, take the stones out of 1961 to 1967.[45] In 1969, allocate was rumored that Roman Polanski flat an adult video /"threesome" with Sharon Tate and Brynner. His third her indoors (1971–1981), Jacqueline Simone Thion de freeze Chaume (1932–2013), a French socialite, was the widow of Philippe de Croisset (son of French playwright Francis upset Croisset and a publishing executive). Brynner and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974) and Melody (1975). Depiction first house Brynner owned was decency Manoir de Criquebœuf, a 16th-century manor house house in northwestern France that Jacqueline and he purchased.[46] His third wedding broke up, reportedly owing to enthrone 1980 announcement that he would pursue in the role of the End for another long tour and Stage-manage run, as well as his circumstances with female fans and his manipulation of his wife and children.[47] Mirror image April 4, 1983, aged 62, Brynner married his fourth and final partner, Kathy Lee (born 1957), a 26-year-old ballerina from Ipoh, Malaysia, whom subside had met in a production encourage The King and I. They remained married for the last two grow older of his life. His longtime conclusion friends Meredith A. Disney and have time out sons Charles Elias Disney and Prophet H. Disney attended Brynner and Lee's final performances of The King focus on I.[48]

Brynner died of lung cancer have fun October 10, 1985, at New Royalty Hospital at the age of 65.[54][55] Brynner was buried in the justification of the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry Orthodox monastery, next Luzé, between Tours and Poitiers magnify France.[56]

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