Yul Brynner

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BIRTHDAY

July 11, 1920

Sakhalin Island, Russia

DIED

October 10, 1985

RECENT CREDITS

Welcome to Woop Woop (FILM) Nov. 13, 1998

Futureworld (FILM) Jan. 1, 1976

Westworld (FILM) Jan. 1, 1973

Fuzz (FILM) Jan. 1, 1972

The Battle of Neretva (FILM) Aug. 19, 1970

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BIOGRAPHY

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Took up acting after a serious accident curtailed his career as a circus acrobat. Brynner moved to America in 1940, failed a screen test at Universal in 1947 because he looked "too oriental" and gave the first of 4,625 performances (over the course of many revivals) as the King of Siam in the hit Broadway musical "The King & I" in 1951. Brynner recreated the role for the 1956 screen version, winning an Oscar as Best Actor, and subsequently began a successful starring career in filmsTrading on his unidentifiably exotic looks and somewhat imperial manner, Brynner played a succession of royals, secret agents and gunslingers, notably in "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) and "Westworld" (1973).

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YouTube to Play Movies -- Legally!

Nov. 10, 2008

In case you weren’t already procrastinating enough at work by YouTubing that Obama/McCain “Dance-Off,” the video-sharing Website has announced a new feature that’ll keep us unproductive for the foreseeable future: full-length movies. And they’re free. And legal!

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News Roundup: Mar. 4

Posted: Mar. 4, 2002

CHANNEL SURFER: Everybody Walk the Dinosaur

Posted: Apr. 16, 2000

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