The classic bald guy- Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner Biography

Actor. Born Taidje Khan in Sakhalin Island, Russian S.F.S.R.After a brief   career as a circus acrobat in France, Brynner started   a touring company in the early 1940s. He made his Broadway debut in Lute Sang in 1946. He began playing his most famous role, the king of Siam in The King and I in the Broadway production of the Oscar and Hammerstein musical in 1951. After more than three years and 1,246 performances, he starred in the screen version in 1956, winning an Oscar for Best Actor. He then returned to the stage for an additional 3,379 stage performances, the last being in 1985. Along the way, Brynner also starred in The Ten Commandments (1956), Anastasia (1956), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), and The Magnificent Seven (1960).

In 1985, I saw him in Kansas City on his last tour performing in The King and I.  Later that year he died of cancer.   One of his last quotes shows such a wonderful sense of humor.

“Now that I’m gone, I tell you, don’t smoke.”  thanks Yul!

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