Yul Brynner made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later he played the role of the King in Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "The King and I". Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film (The King and I (1956)) and winning the Oscar for Best Actor.
For the next two decades he maintained a starring film career performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharaohs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the shaved head. In the 1970s he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in "The King and I". When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause.
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