Yut Borenna Yul Brynner won the 29th Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The King and I (1956).
Yut Borenne Yul Brynner (1920-1985), an American film star with a foreign flair and leadership temperament, whose acting talent is as memorable as his bald head. During his lifetime, no one knew exactly when and where the actor Yu Bollena was born, because he said it differently in every interview. In his later years, he responded to these contradictory statements: "Only ordinary people only need a birthday." ”
Photo of Yul Brynner's passport from his youth
It wasn't until his son Rock published a biography of him in 1989, "Yu: The Man Who Would Be King," in 1989, many of the details of his early life were (more) clearly revealed before our eyes. He often said that he was born on Sakhalin Island, half Swiss and half Japanese, and was born as Taidje Khan or Youl Bryner. In fact, he was the son of Boris Bryner, a swiss- and Mongolian mixed-race engineer and inventor, and his mother was the daughter of a Russian doctor named Maria Blagovitova Marousia Blagavidova.
Gene Kelly (right) goes to the theater to see YupburnEr Brynner perform and talk to each other after the film Sungin' in the rain (1952).
Yu Bernard was born on July 11, 1920 in his parents' hometown of Vladivostok, Soviet Union, and his name is in honor of his grandfather Jules Bryner. When You's father abandoned his wife and children, his mother took him and his sister Vera Bryner with him and his sister Vera Bryner to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA.
In 1934, Eubreenne's mother brought her children to Paris. She sent her son to the aristocratic school Lycée Moncelle, but he was bad at school. He skipped school to become a musician, playing guitar in nightclubs with a group of Russian gypsies, and among this group of Russians, he felt at home for the first time. During this period, Eubreenne also worked as a nude model for george Platt Platt Lynes, a master of male body photography.
Yut Bernner Yul Brynner poses with entertainment mogul and Shaw president Run Run Shaw while in Hong Kong
Eubreenne met socialites such as the writer Jean Cocteau (French playwright, poet, director) and became an apprentice at the Mathurins Theatre. He worked as an acrobatic trapeze artist at the famous Cirque D'Hiver company. Eubrenier's Russian and French temperament earned him a following among the tsars in exile in Paris, and his talent as a self-playing guitarist made him increasingly popular.
Yu Bernard came to the United States in 1941 with the intention of learning the art with acting teacher Michael Chekhov, adding English to several language skills he had already mastered. He traveled the country with Michael Chekhov's theater troupe. In the same year, he debuted on stage for Fabian in Twelfth Night, with the name On the payroll as You Bleenna. After several years of supporting casts, Eubreenne was hired by the War Information Office to become a news publisher for their French-language radio show.
The King and I (1956) cover of the American Blu-ray edition
In 1945, Berliner starred as Tsai-Yong in the musical Lute, starring Mary Martin. The musical was released on Broadway in 1946, and although the film was short, Yu Bernard won the Donaldson Award for "Most Promising Actor." He and his wife, actress Virginia Kilmer Virginia Gilmore, starred in the early television talk show "Mr. and Mrs." He went on to London to continue his theatre career, directing early live television shows in the United States, including a children's puppet show "Life with Snarky Parker". Yu Bernard made his film debut in Manhattan, Port of New York (1949).
Stills from the movie The King and I (1956), Yut Bernner's image of the king by Yul Brynner, is domineering and deeply rooted in people's hearts
In 1951, remembering the infectious performances of his earlier years of The Pipa, the lead actor of the year, Mary Martin, recommended him a role, his most famous and successful character, the King of Siam in Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II's repertoire The King and I.
The Broadway revue The King and I (1951) brought Eubreenne a reputation. At the audition for the play, Yu Bernard played the guitar and sang a Russian Roma song Okonchen put. This exotic song caught the attention of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the play.
Poster for the American version of the film The Ten Commandments (1956).
Originally planned to highlight the character Gertrude Lawrence, the king was only a supporting role, but Yu Ballena's performance was so powerful that the king's role quickly attracted attention during rehearsals, so that the supporting character Malvin Vimurvyn Vye had to withdraw from the performance, and the time for The only song originally left for Malvin Wei was left for the king to let him have a fuller and more exciting performance.
In order to play the king of Siam, Yu Berenna shaved his head, and this bald head became the symbol of his life. His amazing performance caused a sensation and won a Tony Award, and his duet "Let's Dance, Okay?" remains the most moving song in the history of American musical theater. "The King and Me" was a huge success, with 1246 consecutive performances and many awards and praise. Since then, he has become famous in the American theater world, laying the foundation for his position in stage plays.
The film True and False Princess/Anastasia Anastasia (1956) is an American DVD cover
In 1956, he was equally acclaimed for his performance in the film version of The King and Me, and won the Academy Award for Best Actor of the Year, becoming a first-class superstar.
Directed by Cecil M. B. Demir Cecil B. DeMille was so attracted to Yu Bernard's role as King that he invited him to play the role of Pharoah Rameses in his multimillion-dollar mega-production The Ten Commandments (1956). That same year, he was awarded best actor by the National Film Council for his performances in True and False Princess/Anastasia (1956) and The Ten Commandments, and has since become a Hollywood star.
On the set of the film True and False Princess/Anastasia Anastasia (1956), director Anatole Litvak (left, back-to-back), is directing Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman (center) and Yu Borenna Yul Brynner to court dance
True or False Princess is one of the best-known films by Ingrid Bergman and Yu Bernard. In the film, Ingrid Bergman plays Anastasia, while Yu Berenner plays a Russian general in exile. The film was directed by Anatole Litvak anatole Litvak. The general played by Yu Bernard hides his warmth deep under the cold and domineering appearance, and the wisdom of everything in his control makes the role suffocating. After the scandal between Ingrid Bergman and Italian director Roberto Rossellini, her film career was momentarily hampered. She later returned with True and False Princess and won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
On the set of Escape from Budapest/The Journey (1959), actresses Deborah Kerr and Yur Berner rest
"True and False Princess," with stars familiar to many audiences, is clearly a traditional Hollywood film, but director Anatole Levik and actor Yu Borenna are from Russia. The canonical style of classic Hollywood cinema was formed in the 1930s, and Hollywood welcomed different directors who had succeeded in Europe. Anatole Levik is one of the directors with their own unique style that is very different from the classic Hollywood paradigm. In True or False Princess, Eun Bernard plays the russian image that audiences expect, which eases Western hostility toward Russia.
After that, Yu Bollena's play path was set, and it was difficult to return to the "ordinary" role, although he had a commendable performance in the films "True and False Princess", "Escape from Budapest/The Journey of Hungary" (1959), and "The Magnificent Seven" (1960), and he rarely made new attempts.
In 1957 and 1958, Eubreenne was listed as one of Hollywood's top ten high-grossing stars for two consecutive years.
Poster for the Japanese version of the movie "The Magnificent Seven Dragons/Seven Heroes of the Seven Heroes"
From then on, Eun Bernard began his golden age. Many directors think that Yu Berner's appearance is unique and quite "on camera"—his bald head (which he deliberately shaved), deep eyes, a straight nose, and a bit of Russian blood, so they rush to invite him to make films, mainly films related to Russian customs and customs or russian and Soviet characters, and he certainly plays more natural and realistic.
Films of this type include Brothers Karamazov (1958), based on Dostoevsky's novel of the same name, with Yu Bolrenna as eldest son Dmitry; Escape from Budapest as a Soviet officer guarding the border; Beacon/ Bulbas of the Warring States (1962) as the leader of the Cossacks; and Marlon Brando with Marlon Brando. Spy Ship Morituri (1965) and so on. For example, in "Snake Lee Serent" (1973), which shows the bloody war of international espionage, Yu Bernard successfully plays the cunning and devious KGB "mole" Vlasov, through which people are deeply impressed by the true face of the KGB.
Yut Borenna Yul Brynner was on location in the film Beacon / Terrasse Bulba (1962).
In addition, From the 1950s to the 1970s, Eun Bernard made many historical films, mythological films, thrillers, biopics, spy films and Westerns. His roles are extremely diverse, ranging from pirates, warriors, villains, chiefs, pilots, gunners, captains, and leaders of underground organizations. China has released Bernard's 1976 science fiction film "FutureWorld", he played a "700 type" robot, that vivid appearance left a deep impression on the audience.
Yu Bernard occasionally wears a wig or a Russian braid like in the film Beacon Overlord, but his admirers (especially the ladies) like her bald head, as he naturally does.
Promotional photo for the movie Spy Ship Morituri (1965), from left to right: Janet Margolin Marlon Brando Marlon Brando You Bernner Yul Brynner
Outside of his film career, Eubreenne was an accomplished photographer, and many of his photographs were selected by major newspapers or became official exhibitions. Hollywood began a dramatic shift in the 1970s, and heroic epic stories like the ones that Jur Bernard once had been so brilliant were no longer popular.
So in 1972 he agreed to remake The King and Me in an expensive series, renaming It Anna and the King. The series only lasted eight weeks. Yu Berner's last film, in the sci-fi horror film Westworld (1973), played a murderous robot due to design errors, dressed in a Western costume, imitating his early film image of "The Seven Dragons".
Stills from the film Le Serpent (1973).
This easily pretentious and ridiculously ridiculous character is transformed into a creepy character under Eun Borenner's interpretation; the determined steely eyes that stare at his mutilated human beings as he advances became an unforgettable screen image in the seventies.
In 1977, he returned to the role that made him famous and traveled the world as an actor in the movie The King and Me in the final years of his life. He developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s.
Film Westworld (1973) German Blu-ray edition cover
Bernard died on October 10, 1985 (the same day Orson Welles1 also died) in New York City at the age of 65 from smoking lung cancer.
In January 1985, nine months before his death, he was interviewed by Good Morning America expressing his desire to create a non-smoking commercial, which was made into a commercial by the American Cancer Society and broadcast behind him, in which he looked directly at the camera with his eyes and chanted: 'I'm dying.' ’
Yuu Brynner still appeared on stage as a king in the cabaret "The King and Me" in his old age
Eubreenne is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry in Luz, near Poitiers in the French province of Vienne.
He left stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and his childhood home in Vladivostok, Russia, is now a museum. In his honor, the Eubreenne Foundation for Brain and Neck Cancer was established.
Yut Borenna Yul Brynner appeared in advertisements for fujicolor F-II 400 color negatives