Highest rated movie: Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Lowest rated movie: Death Rage (1976)
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Movies starring Yul Brynner have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Testament of Orpheus - released in 1960 - is Yul Brynner's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 30 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Yul Brynner is Death Rage - released in 1976 - with a score of 41% based on 7 reviews.
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 Seven. Brynner was noted for his distinctive voice and for his shaven head, which he maintained as a personal trademark long after adopting it for his initial role in The King and I. He was also a photographer and the author of two books.
Yul Brynner has acted in films with Brad Dexter, Fernando Rey, James Coburn and Raquel Welch.
Yul Brynner has worked with these film directors: J. Lee Thompson, Sam Wanamaker, Cecil B. DeMille and Michael Crichton.
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