Yul Brynner Movies

Yul Brynner in 1973's Westworld

Yul Brynner in 1973’s Westworld

Want to know the best Yul Brynner movies?  How about the worst Yul Brynner movies?  Curious about Yul Brynner’s box office grosses or which Yul Brynner movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Yul Brynner movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.

Yul Brynner (1920-1985) was a Russian-born stage and Oscar® winning actor.  His IMDb page shows 48 acting credits from 1944 to 1976. This page will rank 37 Yul Brynner movies.  Movies will be ranked from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos and movies that were not released in theaters in North America were not included in the rankings.

Yul Brynner in 1956's The Ten Commandments

Yul Brynner in 1956’s The Ten Commandments

Yul Brynner Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Yul Brynner Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

  • Sort Yul Brynner movies by co-stars of his movies
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  • Sort Yul Brynner movies by yearly domestic box office rank
  • Sort Yul Brynner movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie
  • Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Yul Brynner movie received.
  • Sort Yul Brynner movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner in 1956's The King And I

Deborah Kerr & Yul Brynner in 1956’s The King And I

Possibly Interesting Facts About Yul Brynner

1.Yuliy Borisovich Briner was born in Russia in 1920.

2. Yul Brynner and his mother emigrated to the United States in 1940.  During World War 2, Brynner worked as a French-speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, broadcasting propaganda to occupied France.

3. After the war Yul Brynner struggled as a stage actor.   One of his few successes during this time period was appearing in the 1946 play Lute Song with Mary “Peter Pan” Martin.

4. In 1951, Yul Brynner, won the role of King Mongkut in the play The King and I.  Brynner would play King Mongkut for the rest of his life….which turned out to be 4,625 performances over 30 plus years.

5. Yul Brynner won the Best Actor Oscar® for 1956’s The King And I.  It was his only Oscar® nomination.

6. Yul Brynner and superheroes part 1: Marvel’s Stan Lee used his physical likeness (noticeably his bald head and intense stare) as the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of Professor Charles Xavier in the ”X-Men” comics…this was in 1963.

7. Yul Brynner and superheroes part 2:  He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of the superhero Green Lantern/Abin Sur….this was in 1959.

8.  Yul Brynner was married four times. He had four children.

9. Yul Brynner died on the same day as his The Battle on the River Neretva (1969) co-star Orson Welles: October 10, 1985.

10.  Check out Yul Brynner‘s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.

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