Biography
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born American actor of stage and film. He was best known for his portrayal of Mongkut, king of Siam, in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film version; he also played the role more than 4,500 times on stage. He is also remembered as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film The Ten Commandments, General Bounine in Anastasia and Chris Adams in The Magnificent ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Newly discovered interviews with Elizabeth Taylor and unprecedented access to the star’s personal archive reveal the complex inner life and vulnerabil...

Chauves, la revanche
2023
as Self (archive footage)
They take over on the fields of sport and show business. For a few years, bald people took a sensational revenge. But they had to impose themselves as...

Yul Brynner, the Magnificent
2020
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino; t...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most ce...

Spanish Western
2015
as Self (archive footage)
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it pos...

The Making of The Ten Commandments
2003
as Self (archive footage)
Go behind the scenes of the beloved biblical epic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses and directed by legendary filmmaker Cecil B....

Broadway's Lost Treasures
2003
as The King of Siam (segment "The King and I")
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, wer...

My Sister Maria
2002
as Himself (archive)
Maximilian Schell's portrait of his sister Maria.

Ingrid Bergman Remembered
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Her name conjures up beauty, grace, talent and style. One of the greatest actresses of her time, she is best remembered for a natural and vulnerable p...

Yul Brynner: The Man Who Was King
1995
as Self (archive footage)
There is only one Yul Brynner. No other actor had his looks, his range of talents, his energy and his capacity to draw others into the spell of his ch...

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...

Death Rage
1976
as Peter Marciani
A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.

Futureworld
1976
as The Gunslinger
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and...

It's Showtime
1976
as Self (archive footage)
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.

The Ultimate Warrior
1975
as Carson
Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot,...

Westworld
1973
as The Gunslinger
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After...

The Serpent
1973
as Col. Alexi Vlassov
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-exami...

On Location with Westworld
1973
as Self (uncredited)
This promotional short shows what went on behind the scenes during the shooting of the science fiction classic Westworld (1973). Director Michael Cric...

Fuzz
1972
as The Deaf Man
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

Catlow
1971
as Catlow
An outlaw tries to avoid interference as he journeys to Mexico to pull off a $2,000,000 gold robbery.

Romance of a Horsethief
1971
as Captain Stoloff
Since time immemorial, the simple-minded boisterous people of Malava, a small Polish town near the border of imperial Russia, have lived on horse-stea...

The Light at the Edge of the World
1971
as Jonathan Kongre
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone membe...

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970
Still Photographer
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on a...

Adiós, Sabata
1970
as Sabata / Indio Black
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austri...

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the words of the film's subject himself, "the only portrai...

The Magic Christian
1969
as Transvestite Cabaret Singer
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought...

The File of the Golden Goose
1969
as Peter Novak
U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Gold...

The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969
as The Chairman
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in ...

The Battle of Neretva
1969
as Vlado
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia....

Villa Rides
1968
as Pancho Villa
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of ded...

The Long Duel
1967
as Sultan
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his offi...

The Double Man
1967
as Dan Slater / Kalmar
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a one of its own.

Triple Cross
1966
as Baron von Grunen
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.

Return of the Seven
1966
as Chris Adams
Chico, one of the remaining members of The Magnificent Seven, now lives in the town that they (The Seven) helped. One day someone comes and takes most...

The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966
as Colonel Salem
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

Cast a Giant Shadow
1966
as Asher Gonen
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish herita...

Morituri
1965
as Captain Müller
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for German...

Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964
as Jules Gaspard d'Estaing
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his pro...

Flight from Ashiya
1964
as TSgt. Mike Takashima
Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal pr...

Kings of the Sun
1963
as Chief Black Eagle
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the U...

Taras Bulba
1962
as Taras Bulba
Ukraine, 16th century. While the Poles dominate the Cossack steppes, Andrei, son of Taras Bulba, a Cossack leader, must choose between his love for hi...

Escape from Zahrain
1962
as Sharif
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and th...

Goodbye Again
1961
as Extra in Nightclub Scene
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her lo...

The Magnificent Seven
1960
as Chris Adams
An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

Surprise Package
1960
as Nico March
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.

Testament of Orpheus
1960
as Court Usher (uncredited)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic...

Once More, with Feeling!
1960
as Victor Fabian
The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn whe...

Solomon and Sheba
1959
as Solomon
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the cou...

The Sound and the Fury
1959
as Jason Compson
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...

The Journey
1959
as Major Surov
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.

The Buccaneer
1958
as Jean Lafitte
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will ...

Houseboat
1958
Still Photographer
An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.

The Brothers Karamazov
1958
as Dmitri Karamazov
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons ...

Anastasia
1956
as General Sergei Pavlovich Bounine
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russ...

The Ten Commandments
1956
as Rameses
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal qu...

The King and I
1956
as King Mongkut of Siam
Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna an...

Flowers from a Stranger
1950
as Dr. Nestri
The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her ...

Port of New York
1949
as Paul Vicola
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.

Flowers from a Stranger
1949
as Dr. Nestri
The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her ...