Editing Yul Brynner (section)

==Personal life==
Although Brynner had become a [[Naturalization|naturalized]] U.S. citizen, aged 22, in 1943, while living in New York as an actor and radio announcer,<ref name="Intent p 21" /> he [[Renunciation of United States citizenship|renounced his US citizenship]] at the U.S. Embassy in [[Bern]], Switzerland, in June 1965 because he had lost his [[tax exemption]] as an American resident working abroad. He had stayed too long in the United States meaning he would be bankrupted by his tax and penalty debts imposed by the [[Internal Revenue Service]].<ref name="bio">{{cite book|last=Capua|first=Michelangelo|year=2006|title=Yul Brynner, A Biography|publisher=McFarland|isbn=0-7864-2461-3}}</ref>

In 2006, Brynner's son Rock wrote a book about his father and his family history titled ''Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia and Beyond''. He regularly returned to Vladivostok, the city of his father's birth, for the Pacific Meridian Film Festival.

===Health===
In 1979, Brynner settled out of court after allegedly contracting [[trichinosis]] at [[Trader Vic's|Trader Vic]]'s in New York City.<ref>{{Cite news |title=TimesMachine: Wednesday October 17, 1979 - NYTimes.com |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1979/10/17/issue.html |access-date=2024-09-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In September 1983, Brynner suffered a sore throat, his voice changed and doctors found a lump on his vocal cords. In Los Angeles, only hours before his 4,000th performance in ''The King and I'', he received the test results, which indicated that he had inoperable [[lung cancer]], though his throat was not affected. Brynner had begun [[Tobacco smoking|smoking]] heavily at age 12. Although he had quit in 1971, his promotional photos often still showed him with a [[cigarette]] in hand, or a [[cigar]] in his mouth. He and the national tour of the musical were forced to take a few months off while he underwent radiation therapy, which damaged his throat and made singing and speaking difficult.<ref name="Rochman" /> The tour then resumed.<ref>Capua, pp. 151–157</ref><ref>Rosenfeld, Megan.[https://archive.today/20130201023222/https://secure.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/124184102.html?FMT=AI&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Dec+6,+1984&author=By+Megan+Rosenfeld+Washington+Post+Staff+Writer&desc=Classic+'King+and+I' "Classic ''King and I'']". ''[[The Washington Post]]'', December 6, 1984, p. B13. Retrieved December 28, 2012. {{subscription required}}</ref>

In January 1985, the tour reached New York for a farewell Broadway run. Aware he was dying, Brynner gave an interview on ''[[Good Morning America]]'' discussing the [[Health effects of tobacco|dangers of smoking]] and expressing his desire to make an anti-smoking commercial. The Broadway production of ''The King and I'' ran from January 7 to June 30 of that year. His last performance, a few months before his death, marked the 4,625th time he had played the role of the King.

===Other interests===
In addition to his work as a director and performer, Brynner was an active photographer and wrote two books. His daughter Victoria put together ''Yul Brynner: Photographer'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brynner |first1=Yul |title=Yul Brynner, photographer |last2=Brynner |first2=Victoria |date=1996 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-3144-2 |location=New York}}</ref> a collection of his photographs of family, friends, and fellow actors, as well as those he took while serving as a UN special consultant on refugees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=King |first=Susan |date=December 14, 1996 |title=Seeing World Through Eyes of Yul Brynner, Photographer |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-14-ca-8840-story.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 14, 2012 |title=Yul Brynner: a photographic journey - Telegraph |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/9010603/Yul-Brynner-a-photographic-journey.html |access-date=March 16, 2024 |archive-date=January 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114222658/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/9010603/Yul-Brynner-a-photographic-journey.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Yul Brynner Photographer by Yul Brynner |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780810931442 |access-date=March 16, 2024 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}</ref>

Brynner wrote ''Bring Forth the Children: A Journey to the Forgotten People of Europe and the Middle East'' (1960), with photographs by himself and Magnum photographer [[Inge Morath]], and ''The Yul Brynner Cookbook: Food Fit for the King and You'' (1983).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brynner |first1=Yul |title=The Yul Brynner cookbook: food fit for the king and you |last2=Reed |first2=Susan |date=1983 |publisher=Stein and Day |isbn=978-0-8128-2882-5 |location=New York}}</ref>

He enjoyed singing gypsy songs. In 1967, Dimitrievitch and he released a record album ''The Gypsy and I: Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs'' (Vanguard VSD 79265).

===Relationships and marriages===
[[File:Yul Brynner-Virginia Gilmore.jpg|left|thumb|upright|Brynner and [[Virginia Gilmore]] in 1944]]
Brynner married four times, his first three marriages ending in divorce. He fathered three children and adopted two. His first wife (1944–1960) was actress [[Virginia Gilmore]] with whom he had one child, Yul "Rock" Brynner (1946–2023). He was nicknamed "Rock" when he was six years old in honor of boxer [[Rocky Graziano]]. Rock was a historian, novelist, and university history lecturer at [[Marist College]] in [[Poughkeepsie (town), New York|Poughkeepsie, New York]] and [[Western Connecticut State University]] in [[Danbury, Connecticut]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Risen |first=Clay |date=October 25, 2023 |title=Rock Brynner, 76, Son of Hollywood Royalty Who Cut His Own Path, Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/books/rock-brynner-dead.html |access-date=October 26, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Yul Brynner had a long affair with [[Marlene Dietrich]], who was 19 years his senior, beginning during the first production of ''The King and I''.<ref>Capua, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mAllHF9-7ZYC&pg=PA42 chapter 5]; [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3669207/Noel-Coward-Get-on-with-living-and-enjoy-it.html "Noël Coward: 'Get on with living and enjoy it!'"], ''The Telegraph'', November 11, 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2014.</ref>

[[File:Yul Brynner with hair in 1959.jpg|thumb|upright|Brynner in 1959]]
In 1959, Brynner fathered a daughter, Lark Brynner, with Frankie Tilden, who was 20 years old. Lark lived with her mother and Brynner supported her financially. His second wife, from 1960 to 1967, Doris Kleiner (1931–2025)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Socha |first1=Miles |title=Doris Brynner, Doyenne of Dior Homewares, Dies at 93 |url=https://wwd.com/home-design/home-decor/doris-brynner-dead-dior-1236898666/ |access-date=3 February 2025 |publisher=WWD |date=1 February 2025}}</ref> was a Chilean model whom he married on the set during shooting of ''The Magnificent Seven'' in 1960. They had one child, [[Victoria Brynner]] (born November 1962), whose godmother was [[Audrey Hepburn]].<ref>[http://www.elsur.cl/archivo/marzo2000/22marzo2000/elsur/despacho/opinion4.htm Yul Brynner profile at elsur.cl] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930224456/http://www.elsur.cl/archivo/marzo2000/22marzo2000/elsur/despacho/opinion4.htm |date=September 30, 2007}}</ref> Belgian novelist and artist [[Monique Watteau]] was also romantically linked with Brynner, from 1961 to 1967.<ref name="Matthys">{{citation|title=Alika Lindbergh, construite pour l'amour fou|first=Francis|last=Matthys |date=August 15, 2002|work=[[La Libre Belgique]]|url=http://www.lalibre.be/culture/livres/alika-lindbergh-construite-pour-l-amour-fou-51b879d7e4b0de6db9a773d6|access-date=March 14, 2015}}</ref>

His third wife (1971–1981), Jacqueline Simone Thion de la Chaume (1932–2013), a French socialite, was the widow of Philippe de Croisset (son of French playwright [[Francis de Croisset]] and a publishing executive). Brynner and Jacqueline adopted two Vietnamese children: Mia (1974) and Melody (1975). The first house Brynner owned was the Manoir de Criquebœuf, a 16th-century manor house in northwestern France that Jacqueline and he purchased.<ref name="bio" /> His third marriage broke up, reportedly owing to his 1980 announcement that he would continue in the role of the King for another long tour and Broadway run, as well as his affairs with female fans and his neglect of his wife and children.<ref>Capua, p 151.</ref>

On April 4, 1983, aged 62, Brynner married his fourth and final wife, Kathy Lee (born 1957), a 26-year-old ballerina from [[Ipoh]], Malaysia, whom he had met in the London production of ''The King and I''. They remained married for the last two years of his life. His longtime close friends Meredith A. Disney and her sons Charles Elias Disney and Daniel H. Disney attended Brynner and Lee's final performances of ''The King and I''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Yul Brynner biography|url=http://www.tv.com/yul-brynner/person/18963/biography.html|author=tv.com|access-date=March 15, 2009|archive-date=August 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090801143550/http://www.tv.com/yul-brynner/person/18963/biography.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>