Biography: life and films
Yul Brynner was an American actor and film director whose birth name was Yuli Borisovich Bryner. He was born in Vladivostok, Russia on 11th July 1920 and died in New York City, New York, USA on 10th October 1985, aged 65.His best films as an actor include Anatole Litvak's Anastasia (1956), Walter Lang's The King and I (1956), John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven (1960), Gianfranco Parolini's Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di... (1970) and Michael Crichton's thriller Westworld (1973).
Yul Brynner appeared in 42 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Anatole Litvak (3 films), Terence Young (2), Stanley Donen (2), Sam Wanamaker (2), J. Lee Thompson (2) and Gianfranco Parolini (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (21 films), romance (8), Western (8), War (8), Thriller (8), comedy-drama (4), history (2), comedy-romance (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Yul Brynner over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Port of New York (1949) [a]
Anastasia (1956) [a]
The Ten Commandments (1956) [a]
The Brothers Karamazov (1958) [a]
The Buccaneer (1958) [a]
Solomon and Sheba (1959) [a]
The Journey (1959) [a]
The Sound and the Fury (1959) [a]
Le Testament d'Orphée (1960) [a]
Once More, with Feeling! (1960) [a]
Surprise Package (1960) [a]
The Magnificent Seven (1960) [a]
Escape from Zahrain (1962) [a]
Taras Bulba (1962) [a]
Kings of the Sun (1963) [a]
Flight from Ashiya (1964) [a]
Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) [a]
Morituri (1965) [a]
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) [a]
Return of the Seven (1966) [a]
The Double Man (1967) [a]
The Long Duel (1967) [a]
Villa Rides (1968) [a]
Bitka na Neretvi (1969) [a]
The File of the Golden Goose (1969) [a]
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) [a]
Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di... (1970) [a]
Catlow (1971) [a]
Romance of a Horsethief (1971) [a]
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) [a]
Fuzz (1972) [a]
Westworld (1973) [a]
The Ultimate Warrior (1975) [a]
Con la rabbia agli occhi (1976) [a]
Futureworld (1976) [a]
It's Showtime (1976) [a]
Ingrid (1984) [a]
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