Brynner, Yul (1915-85)

?Actor. The shaven-headed star who achieved celebrity in the musical The King and I on Broadway and in the subsequent film version might have seemed an unlikely recruit to the Western. But The Magnificent Seven provided his only out-and-out success away from the King of Siam. With his bald pate mainly concealed by a stetson, Brynner's combination of precise physical movement and slightly pedantic diction contrived to bring out the quizzical, contemplative aspect of an idea?lized gunslinger to distinctive effect. As if in macabre tribute to his prevailing impassi?vity, the gunfighters he played in Westworld and Futureworld turned out to be robots.