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Rock Brynner Dies: Yul Brynner’s Son, Writer, Teacher, Roadie For The Band, Bodyguard To Muhammad Ali Was 76

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Rock Brynner, who escaped the shadow of his iconic actor father Yul Brynner to launch a multifaceted career, died Oct. 13 in Salisbury, Connecticut.

He was 76 and was in hospice battling complications of multiple myeloma, according to family friend Maria Cuomo Cole. Like many children of major celebrities, Rock Brynner tried to carve his own path.

That included time spent as a road manager for The Band, bodyguard for Muhammad Ali, farmer, pilot, street performer, novelist, and professor of constitutional history at several universities.

Rock Brynner attended Yale, Trinity College Dublin, and Columbia, where he received a doctorate in American history in 1993 before teaching for more than a decade at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

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