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Yul Brynner

1920 - 1985

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Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner (Russian: Юл Бриннер), was a Russian and American actor. He was known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I (1951), for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1956 film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage, and became known for his shaved head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for The King and I. Considered one of the first Russian-American film stars, he was honored with a ceremony to put his handprints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood in 1956. He also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yul Brynner is the 29th most popular actor (up from 32nd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Russia (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Actor.

Yul Brynner is most famous for his role as the King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I.

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Among actors, Yul Brynner ranks 29 out of 13,578. Before him are Louis de Funès, Jackie Chan, Mary Pickford, Amitabh Bachchan, Sarah Bernhardt, and Sean Connery. After him are Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Nicholson, Jean Reno, and Romy Schneider.

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Among people born in 1920, Yul Brynner ranks 4. Before him are Pope John Paul II, Federico Fellini, and Isaac Asimov. After him are Charles Bukowski, Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Among people deceased in 1985, Yul Brynner ranks 4. Before him are Marc Chagall, Enver Hoxha, and Konstantin Chernenko. After him are Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, Orson Welles, Rodney Robert Porter, Italo Calvino, Fernand Braudel, and Carl Schmitt.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yul Brynner ranks 35 out of 3,761. Before him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and David Hilbert (1862). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Alexander I of Russia (1777), and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Yul Brynner ranks 1. After him are Armin Mueller-Stahl (1930), Michael Chekhov (1891), Lila Kedrova (1918), Sacha Guitry (1885), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Vyacheslav Tikhonov (1928), Olga Knipper (1868), Yevgeny Leonov (1926), Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1925), George Sanders (1906), and Lyubov Orlova (1902).

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