# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yul-brynner
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:00.120Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Yuliy Borisovich Briner was born in Russia on July 11, 1920, and crossed into American stardom under a shorter name. The King and I opened on Broadway in 1951 and Brynner won two Tonys for playing King Mongkut — then an Oscar in 1956 when the musical went to film. That same year he took the National Board of Review Award for playing both Rameses II in The Ten Commandments and General Bounine in Anastasia, a run that landed his handprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. He rode into The Magnificent Seven in 1960 as gunslinger Chris Adams, returned for the sequel, then played a homicidal android in Westworld and Futureworld in the seventies. Between films he worked as a model and photographer and wrote books. He died October 10, 1985, decades into a trademark he never dropped.