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Alias Name(s): Taidje Khan, Yul Borisovich Bryner
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Vladivostock, Czarist Russia (now Vladivostock, Russia)
Birthday: 7-7-1915
Birth Name: Yul Borisovich Bryner
Date of Death: 10-10-1985
Yul Brynner is best known for his role as the King of Siam in the movie The King and I (for which he won an Oscar for Best Actor), for his role as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven and for his role as Ramses II in The Ten Commandments . Yul was married four times. His first wife was Virginia Gilmore, an actress. They were married from 1944 to 1960 and had one child, Yul Brynner...

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E! True Hollywood Story
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Sunday 29 November 1998 on E!

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He was photographed in the nude in Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935–1955. (edit)
Audrey Hepburn is the godmother of his daugher, Victoria Brynner. (edit)
He had an affair with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1950s. (edit)
His son, from his marriage to Virginia Gilmore, Yul Brynner II, was nicknamed "Rock" by his father in honour of boxer Rocky Graziano, who won the middleweight title in 1947. (edit)
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6162 Hollywood Blvd. (edit)

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Yul Brynner: People don't know my real self and they're not about to find out. (edit)
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Anna Leonowens and her young son Louis traveled to Siam in 1862, to educate the King's countless children. The relationship between Anna and the King, was at times comforting, and at other times,... more