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Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation
Doctor Robert Follweiler recently became a partner with the
Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation and will be offering Free Oral Cancer Screenings.
Twenty years ago, Yul Brynner, dying from lung cancer, made a television commercial that said, "Now that I'm gone, I tell you: Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke."
Brynner was very much alive in January, 1985, when he made this statement on ABC's Good Morning America. But after he died in October of that year, he got his wish. The resulting public service announcement remains one of the most memorable antismoking statements ever made.
Yul Brynner - 1985
- Did you know that head and neck cancers — most of which are preventable — account for approximately 3 percent of all cases in the United States?
- Approximately 55,000 people in the United States will develop head and neck cancers in 2007, and nearly 13,000 people will die from it.
- Tobacco (including smokeless tobacco) and alcohol use are the most important risk factors for head and neck cancers, particularly those of the tongue, mouth, throat and voice box.
- Eighty-five percent of head and neck cancers are linked to tobacco use. People who use both tobacco and alcohol are at greater risk for developing these cancers than people who use either tobacco or alcohol alone.
(Source: National Cancer Institute)
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ABOUT YUL BRYNNER
Yul Brynner was born the son of Boris Bryner, a Swiss-Mongolian engineer and inventor, and Marousia Blagavidova, the daughter of a Russian doctor. He was born in their hometown of Vladivostok on July 11, 1920, and named Yul after his grandfather Jules Bryner. When Yul's father abandoned the family, his mother took Yul and his sister Vera to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA.
In 1934, Yul's mother, Marousia 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 artists with the famed Cirque d'Hiver company. Brynner took up acting after a serious accident curtailed his circus career. He then moved the U.S . in 1941 to study with acting teacher Michael Chekhov and toured the country with Chekhov's theatrical troupe. That same year he debuted in New York as Fabian in Twelfth Night (billed as Youl Bryner). Ironiucally, he failed a screen test at Universal in 1947 because he looked "too oriental"
After working in a very early TV series, "Mr. Jones and His Neighbors", he played on Broadway in Lute Song, with 'Mary Martin', winning awards and mild acclaim. He and his wife, actress Virginia Gilmore, starred in the first TV talk show, "Mr. and Mrs." Brynner then joined CBS as a television director. He made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later, Mary Martin recommended him for the part he would always be known for, the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical The King and I. Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film and winning the Oscar for Best Actor. For the next two decades, he maintained a starring film career despite exotic nature of his persona, performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharoahs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the same shaven head and indefinable accent.
Outside of his film work, Brynner was also an accomplished photographer, and many of his pictures appeared in major magazine spreads or were used as official studio production stills.
In 1972, the actor agreed to re-create his King and I role in an expensive weekly TV series, Anna and the King. But it lasted all of eight weeks. Brynner's last major film role was in the sci-fi thriller Westworld (1973) as a murderously malfunctioning robot, dressed in Western garb reminiscent of the actor's wardrobe in 1960's The Magnificent Seven. In 1977, Brynner embarked upon a stage revival of The King and I, that was adored by audiences all over the country.
On October 10, 1985, at age 65, Brynner died in a New York hospital -- still insisting that his public not know the severity of his condition until after his death, although he had recorded a dramatic public-service announcement to be broadcast afterward that blamed the illness on smoking.
(Source: Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation)
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Yul Brynner Head and Neck Cancer Foundation
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Please call our office for a consultation today.
We care about your comfort.
772-283-1400
901 E Ocean Boulevard Stuart, Florida 34994-2429
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