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Yuli Borisovich Bryner Wiki Biography

Yuliy Borisovich Briner was born on 11 July 1920, in Vladivostok, Russian Far Eastern Republic, of Swiss, German and Russian descent, and was a film and stage actor, best known for portraying King Mongkut of Siam in the musical “The King and I” on screen and stage, a role for which he won two Tony Awards. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it was prior to his passing in 1985.

So how rich was Yul Brynner? As of mid-2017, sources estimate a net worth of $10 million, mostly earned through a successful career as an actor, which also included starring as Ramesses II in the blockbuster films “The Ten Commandments” and Chris Adams in “The Magnificent Seven”, but all of his achievements ensured the position of his wealth.

After growing up in Russia, Yul’s mother took him to China after his father left the family. He attended a school run by the YMCA, and then went to Paris after threats of a China and Japan war. He played guitar in Russian nightclubs in Paris and also trained as a trapeze acrobat. After sustaining an injury, he then turned to acting. In 1940, he immigrated to the United States along with his mother.

Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer for the US Office of War Information during World War II, while at the same time studying acting. He made his first Broadway performance, a small role in a production of “Twelfth Night” in 1941. He then found a little acting work, before eventually co-starring with Mary Martin in a 1946 production of “Lute Song”, meantime also doing some modelling work. He then started working as a director for the new CBS television studios, and directed many shows including “Studio One”. He made his film debut in 1949 in “Port of New York”, which led to him being recommended for the role of the King in “The King and I”.

Yul’s role as King Mongkut would become his most famous role, and he performed it 4625 times on stage throughout his career. His net worth increased significantly thanks to his performances, and he won two Tony Awards, his first during the first Broadway production and his final during his last Broadway season. He also appeared in, and is perhaps most famous for the 1956 film version which earned him an Academy Award. In 1972, he also became a part of the short-lived “Anna and the King” which aired on CBS. He is one of only eight people to have won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award for the same role. Thanks to the success of the Broadway production and film, he continued to shave his head for the rest of his life, only wearing wigs for certain roles.

Brynner also had a mainstream film career, most notably appearing in “The Ten Commandments” as Rameses II, and also in “Anastasia”, “The Magnificent Seven’, “The Brothers Karamazov”, “Westworld”, and “The Magic Christian”, all major successes.

Aside from his work in acting, he was very active in the photography industry, compiling a collection of his photographs. He also wrote two books, one a cookbook entitled “The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit for the King and You”.

For his personal life, it is known that Yul married four times. His first wife was actress Virginia Gilmore (1944-60) and they had a child. He then had another child with Frankie Tilden whom he supported financially. His second wife was model Doris Kleiner, and their marriage lasted from 1960 to 1967, and they also had a child. His third wife was socialite Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume (1971-81); their marriage ended allegedly due to affairs with female fans, as well as neglect of his wife and two adopted children from Vietnam. In 1983, Brynner married ballerina Kathy Lee and they remained together for the last two years of his life. During the last stage season of :The King and I”, he discovered a lump on his vocal cords. Tests showed that he actually had inoperable lung cancer, a result of a lifetime addiction to cigarettes – he passed away in New York City 1985. His last performance was a commercial decrying the effects of smoking, screened on TV around the world after his death!

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Yuli Borisovich Bryner Trademarks

1. Deep authoritative voice
2. Unflinching gaze
3. Completely shaved head

Yuli Borisovich Bryner Quotes

• [His Academy Award for Best Actor acceptance speech, 1957] I hope this is not a mistake, because I won’t give it back for anything in the world. Thank you very much.
• [on his character Chris Adams from The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966)] Well… He’s just a dirty bum. There are only two things clean about him: His gun and his soul.
• I’m not of the can-kicking, shovel-carrying, ear-scratching, torn T-shirt school of acting. There are very few real men in the movies these days. Yet being a real man is the most important quality an actor can offer on the screen.
• [Message recorded in January 1985, after he was diagnosed with lung cancer] Now that I’m gone, I tell you: Don’t smoke, whatever you do, just don’t smoke. If I could take back that smoking, we wouldn’t be talking about any cancer. I’m convinced of that.
• Girls have an unfair advantage over boys: If they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
• [to interviewers] Just call me a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
• People don’t know my real self, and they’re not about to find out.

Yuli Borisovich Bryner Important Facts

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• In “Taras Bulba” (1962), Yul Brynner wanted the film to capture the essence of Gogol’s novel. By the time it reached the screen, it was dismissed as just another routine action picture in Cossack clothing — the very thing he had hoped to avoid. According to Brynner’s son Rock, his father’s disappointment was so great that he never again invested much, if any, of himself in his remaining screen work.
• Since he started his career in France, he fluently spoke an almost perfect french..
• Is one of 13 actors who have received an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a real-life king. The others in chronological order are Charles Laughton for The Private Life of Henry VIII. (1933), Robert Morley for Marie Antoinette (1938), Basil Rathbone for If I Were King (1938), Laurence Olivier for Henry V (1944) and Richard III (1955), José Ferrer for Joan of Arc (1948), John Gielgud for Becket (1964), Peter O’Toole for Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Robert Shaw for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Richard Burton for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Kenneth Branagh for Henry V (1989), Nigel Hawthorne for The Madness of King George (1994), and Colin Firth for The King’s Speech (2010).
• He actively sought the role of Grigori Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971). However, Tom Baker was cast.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6162 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Green Lantern/Abin Sur (created in 1959). Brynner was 39 years old at the time. Sur is well-known like the predecessor of Green Lantern/Hal Jordan, who replaced him after his death when Sur crashed with his ship on planet Earth.
• Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II initial choice for their Broadway “King and I” musical’s featured role King of Siam was Rex Harrison, a role that he had played in Anna and the King of Siam (1946), but Harrison was unavailable due to film work. Mary Martin suggested Yul Brynner to Rodgers and Hammerstein II for the role since he had appeared on Broadway with her in the stage-musical “Lute Song”. Rogers and Hammerstein II settled on television director and actor Yul Brynner. In rehearsals, at Yul Brynner’s first meeting with costume designer Irene Sharaff, Yul Brynner had only a fringe of curly hair. Yul Brynner asked Sharaff what he was to do about it. When Sharaff told him to shave it, Brynner was horror-struck, refused, convinced he would look terrible. During out of town tryouts in New Haven, Connecticut (February 27, 1951), Sharaff told Rodgers and Hammerstein II and the director John Van Druten, “Brynner should be bald!” Ordered to shave his head, Brynner gave in, shaving off his long curly black hair, putting dark stage make-up on his shaved head. The effect was so well received that it became Brynner’s trademark. Brynner came to dominate his role and the musical, starring in a four-year national tour culminating in his last performance, a special Sunday night show, on June 30, 1985, in honor of Yul Brynner and his 4,625th performance of the role. “King of the mountain as well as the show”. Brynner died less than four months later, on October 10, 1985.
• He was good friends with Frank Sinatra, and was a frequent guest at Frank’s Palm Springs estate.
• When he got the offer to star in “The King and I” on Broadway, Brynner had established himself at CBS directing Danger (1950), Omnibus (1952) and Studio One in Hollywood (1948) as well as training new directors in the fledgling medium. He took a leave of absence to play the King and even after his success jokingly referred to acting as his part time job.
• After seeing Brynner in the play “Lute Song” with Mary Martin in 1949, Judy Garland wanted to do a film version of it, so she asked him to do a screen test with her. Nothing came of it, but it led to the actor’s screen debut that year in Port of New York (1949).
• When Brynner formed his own company Alciona to produce films in which he would both star in and direct, he commissioned Jean Cocteau to design the logo for the company stationary.
• Had played the role of King Mongkut of Siam on stage, in the movies and on a short-lived television series.
• Stan Lee used his physical likeness (noticeably his bald head and intense stare) as the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of Professor Charles Xavier in the ”X-Men” comics (created in 1963). Brynner was 43 years old at the point.
• Was acting in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ (his Broadway debut), when Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. That night’s show was canceled and most of the crew enlisted soon after. The show lasted only 15 performances and Brynner was out of a job until 1943.
• Daughter Victoria Brynner is a successful businesswoman who founded her own company Stardust Visions and Stardust Celebrities in Los Angeles (1992).
• He badly wanted to play the title role in Spartacus (1960) and the role of Rasputin in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971).
• Was very good friends with Deborah Kerr.
• He was a great believer in rituals.
• Always prepared breakfast while wearing a silk kimono.
• Loved modern appliances.
• Godfather of Charlotte Gainsbourg.
• Audrey Hepburn is the godmother of his daughter Victoria.
• According to his son, Yul “Rock” Brynner, “In his youth, Yul Brynner was Jean Cocteau’s opium supplier.” Empire and Odyssey, p. 141.
• Biography in: “The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives”. Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 111-114. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1998.
• Three of his films were remade in the late 1990s, in rapid succession, as animated films: The King and I (1956) and Anastasia (1956) were remade as animated films of the same name The King and I (1999), Anastasia (1997)) and The Ten Commandments (1956) was remade as The Prince of Egypt (1998).
• Is 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 (1972)), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady (1964)), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker (1962)), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons (1966)), José Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)) and Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses (1968)).
• Brynner married Doris Kleiner on the set during shooting of The Magnificent Seven (1960).
• Apprentice of Michael Chekhov.
• Had appeared in three different films with Eli Wallach: The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966) and Romansa konjokradice (1971).
• He was the only actor to appear in both The Magnificent Seven (1960) and its first sequel, Return of the Magnificent Seven (1966). However, he did not appear in either of the other sequels, Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972).
• 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 (1956). He also won a second, Special Tony Award in 1985 “honoring his 4,525 performances in ‘The King and I'”.
• A recording of him explaining how being bald helped him is included in a song by Stephen Malkmus (of Pavement) titled “Jo Jo’s Jacket”. The first verses are about Brynner and include a reference to Westworld (1973) and The King and I (1956).
• When he found out he would be playing Pharaoh Rameses II opposite Charlton Heston’s Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956) 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 (1956) another film he was set to work on at the time.)
• Mentioned in the popular mid-1980s song “One Night in Bangkok”, sung by Murray Head, from the soundtrack of the musical “Chess”.
• He was an accomplished photographer. He took many photos on the sets of the various projects he worked on over the years.
• While touring in the play “Odyssey” in the mid-1970s, he attained a reputation for 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!” (this should be noted, in fairness, that Brynner personally paid the expense of these requests). 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 died on the same day as his Bitka na Neretvi (1969) co-star Orson Welles: October 10, 1985.
• 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.
• Yul’s paternal grandfather, Julius Bryner, was of Swiss-German origin (Julius was the son of Johannes Bruner and Marie Huber Von Windisch). Yul’s paternal grandmother, Natalya Iosifovna Kurkutova, was Russian, from Irkutsk, and was said to be of part Mongolian/Buryat ancestry. Yul’s maternal grandparents, Dmitriy Evgrafovich Blagovidov and Anna Timofeevna Kireeva, were also Russian, from Penza.
• Despite numerous resources stating that Brynner was interred at the non-existent “Saint Robert Churchyard at the Monastery of Saint Michael”, Brynner actually was buried in the Orthodox cemetery Saint-Michel-du-Bois-Aubry of Luzé, a village 55km from Tours in Touraine, France.
• Had two daughters with his third wife, Jacqueline de Croisset: Mia Brynner (adopted 1974, born in Vietnam) and Melody Brynner (adopted 1974, born in Vietnam).
• Had one daughter with his second wife, Doris Kleiner: Victoria Brynner (born November 1962 in Switzerland).
• Daughter Lark Brynner (born 1958) was born out of wedlock. She was raised by her mother, German actress Frances Martin.
• Had one son with his first wife, actress Virginia Gilmore: Yul “Rock” Brynner II (born December 23, 1946).
• In 1950, before he achieved fame, he was the director of a children’s puppet show on CBS, Life with Snarky Parker (1950), which lasted barely eight months on the air before cancellation.

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