Yul Brynner’s Death – Cause and Date
The movie actor Yul Brynner died at the age of 65. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Russian/Swiss actor well-known for his typecast roles as stern rulers in The King and I and The Ten Commandments. His other films include Anastasia, The Sound and the Fury, and Death Rage.
He was married four times to Virginia Gilmore, Frankie Tilden, Jacqueline Thion de la Chaume, and Kathy Lee. He had a daughter named Victoria with his second wife. Victoria’s godmother was Audrey Hepburn. Brynner also adopted two Vietnamese children with his third wife.
Death
Brynner succumbed to lung cancer on October 10, 1985, and died at New York Hospital at the age of 65. His cremated remains were laid to rest on the grounds of the Saint-Michel-de-Bois-Aubry Orthodox monastery, located near Luzé, between Tours and Poitiers in France.
The lion’s share of Brynner’s estate went to his wife Kathy Lee.
Quotes
""Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb."
""When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead."
""I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy."
""Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead."
""I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything."