Movies
Explainer on Yul Brynner’s ethnic heritage compared with Steven Yeun’s.
March 15, 2021
Books
Yul Brynner as photographer
Dec. 20, 2010
Art: The Oscar-winning actor’s work, including family shots and behind-the-scenes Hollywood portraits, has been put together for a book and exhibition.
Dec. 14, 1996
Entertainment & Arts
We all loved Yul Brynner as a person and for the many great performances he gave us over the years.
Oct. 18, 1985
Yul Brynner spoke from the grave Wednesday, warning “now that I’m gone--don’t smoke,” in an eerie anti-smoking commercial released four months after the star of the “King and I” died of lung cancer.
Feb. 20, 1986
Yul Brynner, who with shaved head and regally haughty presence played and replayed the starring role in “The King and I” for more than 30 years, died early today in a New York Hospital.
Oct. 10, 1985
--After 34 years as king of Siam, actor Yul Brynner abdicated, saying goodby to the starring role in “The King and I.”
July 1, 1985
Re “One From the Heart” [April 3] on Stefanie Powers and the current production of “The King and I,” one “Anna” omitted from the list of “Annas”: Patricia Morison.
April 10, 2005
Music
Brown’s survey of recordings by celebrities who are not celebrated as singers missed one of the best: Yul Brynner’s 1967 Vanguard album “The Gypsy and I,” in which Brynner’s mahogany baritone mixes stunningly with his guitar work and that of his long-time music partner, Aliosha Dimitrievitch.
Sept. 13, 1987
Ken Watanabe will follow in the considerable footsteps of Yul Brynner when he takes on the role of the King of Siam in the upcoming Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I.”
June 30, 2014