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Yul Brynner: a biography 9780786424610, 0786424613
Table of contents :
A note on Yul Brynner's name. --
Introduction. --
1. Past imperfect. --
2. Gypsy king. --
3. Television debut. --
4. I'm the king! etc., etc., etc. --
5. Dietrich and Crawford. --
6. Cecil B. DeMille. --
7. Once upon a time in Hollywood. --
8. A bastard with a heart of gold. --
9. The Magnificent Seven. --
10. Surprise flops. --
11. Terrible choices. --
12. Westworld. --
13. Long live the king! --
Filmography. --
Stage appearances. --
Documentaries, music and soundtracks, radio programs and television appearances. --
Brynner as director. --
Notes.
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Yul Brynner
ALSO BY MICHELANGELO CAPUA Vivien Leigh: A Biography (McFarland, 2003) Montgomery Clift: A Biography (McFarland, 2003)
Yul Brynner A Biography MICHELANGELO CAPUA
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
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Rock Brynner Dies: Yul Brynner’s Son, Writer, Teacher, Roadie For The Band, Bodyguard To Muhammad Ali Was 76
Rock Brynner, who flydde the shadow of his iconic actor father Yul Brynner to launch a multifaceted career, died Oct. 13 in Salisbury, Connecticut. He was 76 and was in hospice battling complications of multiple myeloma, according to family friend Maria Cuomo Cole.
Like many children of major celebrities, Rock Brynner tried to carve his own path. That included time spent as a road manager for The Band, bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, farmer, pilot, street performer, novelist, and professor of constitutional history at several universities.
Rock Brynner attended Yale, Trinity College Dublin, and Columbia, where he received a doctorate in American history in 1993 before teaching for more than a decade at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
His life was filled with intriguing stints in various roles. He wrote a one-man play based on French playwright jean Cocte
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Yul Brynner
Biography, movies and analysis of Yul Brynner
Early Life
Yul Brynner was born as Yuliy Borisovich Briner in 1920 in Russian most eastern port town Vladivostok. He grew up amidst the turbulent period in post-revolutionary Russia. At that time Vladivostok was part of the so-called Far Eastern Republic, an independent state that existed from 1920 until 1922t was overthrown by the Soviet Red Army making it part of the Soviet-Union.
His father, Boris Yuliyevich Briner, was a wealthy mining engineer while his mother, Marousia Dimitrievna, worked as an actress and singer. They lived a good life at the time when Yul was born, but that came to a tragic end when the Soviets confiscated all their belongings.
His multicultural background, with Swiss-German and Russian Buryat ancestry, would later help sculpt his exotic, enigmatic screen persona.
When Brynner was 4 years old young, his father and mother separated. His father fell for Russian actress Katerina Kornakova