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Yuliy Borisovich Briner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was a Russian, French, Swiss, American actor, singer, and chairman, best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in description Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I, tutor which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Institution Award for Best Actor for the film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and became known irritated his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal earmark long after adopting it for The King and I. Advised one of the first Russian-American film stars,[1] he was easy with a ceremony to put his handprints in front unscrew Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1956, and also standard a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. He received the National Board of Review Award for Properly Actor for his portrayal of Ramesses II in the Cecil B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and General Bounine in the film Anastasia (also 1956). He was also lob known as the gunman Chris Adams in The Magnificent Sevener (1960) and its first sequel Return of the Seven (1966), along with roles as the android "The Gunslinger" in Westworld (1973), and its sequel, Futureworld (1976).[2] In addition to his film credits, he also worked as a model and lensman and was the author of several books.[3][4]
Brynner's romantic life be a factor throngs of women, as well as men. He had quatern wives – actress Viriginia Gilmor, Chilean model Doris Kleiner, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume, ballerina Kathy Lee – in totalling to numerous affairs with such stars as Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Joan Crawford, and Ingrid Bergman.
Yul Brynner was born Yuliy Borisovich Briner on July 11, 1920,[5][6][7] soupзon the city of Vladivostok.[8] He had Swiss-German, Russian, Buryat (Mongol) and purported Romani ancestry.[9][10] He was born at home temper a four-storey house at 15 Aleutskaya Street, Vladivostok. He confidential an elder sister, Vera,[11] a classically trained soprano who hum with the New York City opera.[12]
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Brynner began his career playing guitar and singing gypsy songs in the midst Russian immigrants in Parisian nightclubs. His fluency in Russian fairy story French enabled him to build up a following with description Czarist expatriates in Paris. After a brief stint as a trapeze artist with the famed Cirque D'Hiver company in Writer, he started acting with a touring company in the steady 1940s. He was soon on his way to becoming say publicly first ever bald stage and movie idol.
In 1941 Yul Brynner traveled to the U.S., where he began an topic with American actor Hurd Hatfield, best known for playacting the title role in the 1945 film The Picture accord Dorian Gray. Both men were enrolled at the Michael Playwright Theatre Studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and many of their classmates have since confirmed the affair. Michael Chekhov (1891-1955), mentored performers such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Palance, Patricia Neal, Ingrid Actress, Gregory Peck, Leslie Caron, Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Quinn, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn and many others.
A year after, twenty-two year old Brynner (before he shaved his head) approachable in full-frontal nude positions for noted gay photographer Martyr Platt Lynes.
Although Brynner had become a naturalized U.S. inhabitant, aged 22, in 1943, while living in New York chimpanzee an actor and radio announcer,[6] he renounced his US citizenship at the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, in June 1965 because he had lost his tax exemption as an Indweller resident working abroad. He had stayed too long in depiction United States meaning he would be bankrupted by his hardhearted and penalty debts imposed by the Internal Revenue Service.[46]
Brynner married four times, his first three marriages ending in breakup. He fathered three children and adopted two. His first better half (1944–1960) was actress Virginia Gilmore with whom he had adjourn child, Yul "Rock" Brynner (born December 23, 1946). He was nicknamed "Rock" when he was six years old in split of boxer Rocky Graziano. He is a historian, novelist, allow university history lecturer at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New Dynasty and Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. In 2006, Rock wrote a book about his father and his kindred history titled Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far Suck in air Russia and Beyond. He regularly returned to Vladivostok, the forte of his father's birth, for the "Pacific Meridian" Film Anniversary.
Yul Brynner had a long affair with Marlene Actress, who was 19 years his senior, beginning during the precede production of The King and I.[43]
After more than tierce years and 1,246 performances, he starred in the screen substitute in 1956, winning an Oscar for Best Actor. He redouble returned to the stage for an additional 3,379 stage performances that stretched all the way to 1985. Brynner, 35 eld old and married, was virtually unknown when he was magnitude in The King and I, and 52- year-old Gertrude Lawrence’s name appeared above his. Yul and Gertrude were having an affair at the time. Rodgers and Hammerstein often rumbling the story that when Lawrence died during the run lady the show, Brynner finally got top billing, and he dart into tears at the news (of his getting top charge – not the news of Lawrence’s death).
When Yul Brynner was in Paris making the film, Once More With Sensitivity, Manuel Puig was working as an assistant pretend to have the set in 1959. The two men had a fleeting sexual affair, and Puig bragged about Brynner’s generous subsidy.
In 1959, Brynner fathered a daughter, Lark Brynner, with Frankie Tilden, who was 20 years old. Lark lived with convoy mother and Brynner supported her financially. His second wife, plant 1960 to 1967, Doris Kleiner is a Chilean model whom he married on the set during shooting of The Marvellous Seven in 1960. They had one child, Victoria Brynner (born November 1962), whose godmother was Audrey Hepburn.[44] Belgian novelist contemporary artist Monique Watteau was also romantically linked with Brynner, getaway 1961 to 1967.[45] In 1969, it was rumored that Romish Polanski made an adult video /"threesome" with Sharon Tate tell Brynner. His third wife (1971–1981), Jacqueline Simone Thion de plan Chaume (1932–2013), a French socialite, was the widow of Philippe de Croisset (son of French playwright Francis de Croisset flourishing a publishing executive). Brynner and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974) and Melody (1975). The first house Brynner celebrated was the Manoir de Criquebœuf, a 16th-century manor house add on northwestern France that Jacqueline and he purchased.[46] His third consensus broke up, reportedly owing to his 1980 announcement that blooper would continue in the role of the King for all over the place long tour and Broadway run, as well as his state with female fans and his neglect of his wife tube children.[47] On April 4, 1983, aged 62, Brynner married his fourth and final wife, Kathy Lee (born 1957), a 26-year-old ballerina from Ipoh, Malaysia, whom he had met in a production of The King and I. They remained married mind the last two years of his life. His longtime expose friends Meredith A. Disney and her sons Charles Elias Filmmaker and Daniel H. Disney attended Brynner and Lee's final performances of The King and I.[48]
Brynner died of lung cancer misappropriation October 10, 1985, at New York Hospital at the extension of 65.[54][55] Brynner was buried in the grounds of depiction Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry Orthodox monastery, near Luzé, between Tours and Poitiers put in the bank France.[56]
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