Yul Brynner spoke very good French.

[dennilfloss]

http://www.ina.fr/video/I00011425/yul-brynner-65-ans-a-deauville-en-francais-video.html

Nice level of language too.

 

[Kadarin]

Admittedly, Yul Brynner isn't someone I think about a lot these days.

 

[dennilfloss]

Sometimes it's nice to be reminded of the great ones who have departed this plane of existence for the next.

 

[zinfamous]

Admittedly, Yul Brynner isn't someone I think about a lot these days.

This is true.

I think he's one of those guys that died before I was born. Like Bob Dole.

 

[Murloc]

the name doesn't ring a bell.

 

[Kadarin]

the name doesn't ring a bell.

I remember him as The Gunslinger in the movie Westworld:

 

[midnight growler]

He starred as the King in "The King and I," and also as one of the heroes in western "The Magnificent Seven." Also as Pharaoh in "The Ten Commandments"

Also made a pretty effective anti-smoking commercial right before he died of cancer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxgaAn6IR9E

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Nice level of language too.

i would hope so

In 1934 Yuli's mother took her children to Paris. Her son was sent to the exclusive Lycée Moncelle, but his attendance was spotty. He dropped out and became a musician, playing guitar in the nightclubs among the Russian gypsies who gave him his first real sense of family. He met luminaries such as Jean Cocteau and became an apprentice at the Theatre des Mathurins. He worked as a trapeze artist with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company.