Mel Ferrer

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Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor and screen director, film director, and Audrey Hepburn's first husband.

Early life

Ferrer was born in Elberon, New Jersey, of Spanish and Irish descent. Dr. José Mar. Ferrer, his father, was born in Havana, Cuba, of Catalan ancestry. José was a authority on pneumonia and served as the Chief of Staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. Mel was 59 years old at the time of his birth and died three years later. Mary Matilda Irene, née O'Donohue, a founder of the Coffee Exchange and a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry, was born in 1878. Irene Ferrer (as she was known) was named in 1934 as the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws, and an ardent critic of Prohibition. His parents married in New York on October 17, 1910.

The O'Donohues, his mother's family, were among the most prominent Roman Catholics. Marie Louise O'Donohue, Ferrer's aunt, and his mother, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in American Roman Catholic charities and welfare organisations, were granted permission by Pope Pius XI to build a private chapel in her New York City apartment.

Ferrer had three siblings. Dr. Marcia Irené Ferrer, a cardiologist and educator who aided in the development of the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram, was his elder sister (July 30, 1915-November 12, 2004). She died in 2004 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, at the age of 89, from pneumonia and congestive heart disease. Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, their brother (November 23, 1912 – December 24, 1982), was a surgeon; he died at the age of 70 from abdominal surgery complications. Teresa Ferrer (March 30, 1919 – February 12, 2002) was their younger sister and a news reporter for Newsweek. She died of a thoracic aneurysm at the age of 82.

Ferrer attended the Bovée School in New York (where one of his classmates, Louis Auchincloss), and the Canterbury Prep School in Connecticut. He attended Princeton University until his sophomore year, but after that he dropped out to devote more time to acting, he started studying.

He served as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote Tito's Hats, a children's book published in 1940 (Garden City Publishing, 1940).

Personal life

Ferrer married five times to four women, with whom he had six children.

His wives were:

Ferrer had a connection with 29-year-old interior designer Tessa Kennedy before his marriage to Elizabeth Soukhotine in 1971.

Ferrer was also fluent in Spanish and French, in addition to English.

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Career

Ferrer began acting in summer and gained the Theatre Intime Award for best new play by a Princeton undergraduate in 1937; Awhile to Work co-starred Frances Pilchard, who would be Ferrer's first wife later this year. He was performing on Broadway as a chorus dancer when he first appeared on the stage two years ago as an actor. In two unsuccessful musicals, Cole Porter's You Never Know and Everywhere I Roam, he appeared as a chorus dancer. Ferrer worked in Texas and Arkansas as a disc jockey, then relocated to Mexico to work on the novel Tito's Hat (published 1940).

His first acting appearances were in Kind Lady (1940) and Cue for Passion (1940).

Ferrer was hired as a producer by Columbia Pictures, as well as several other "potentials" who started as dialogue producers: Fred Sears, William Castle, Henry Levin, and Robert Gordon.

Among the films he worked on were Louisiana Hayride (1944), They Live in Fear (1944), Sergeant Mike (1944), Together Again (1944), We Know Our Love (1944), and A Thousand and One Night (1945). Some of these were "B" films, but others (Thousand and One Nights) were more popular. Ruth Nelson appeared in Ferrer's film The Girl of the Limberlost (1945).

Eventually, he returned to Broadway, where he appeared in Strange Fruit (1945–46), a play based on Lillian Smith's book. José Ferrer (no family) directed it. José Ferrer was then in charge of the 1946 stage performance of Cyrano de Bergerac. He served as an assistant on The Fugitive (1947), a John Ford-directed Mexican film. He co-founded the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, alongside Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Joseph Cotten.

Ferrer made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries (1949), portraying a black person who passes for white. The film was controversial but it was highly praised.

Ferrer appeared in Born to Be Bad (1950), directed by Nicholas Ray, and he had a supporting role. He directed Claudette Colbert in The Secret Fury (1950) and produced or co-directed Vendetta (1950), The Racket (1951) and Macao (1952). In The Brave Bulls (1951), Robert Rossen at Columbia, he played a bullfighter. In Rancho Notorious (1952), directed by Fritz Lang at RKO, Ferrer competed with Arthur Kennedy over Marlene Dietrich.

Ferrer went to MGM, replacing Fernando Lamas as the villain in Scaramouche (1952). Ferrer and Stewart Granger's long, climactic sword war was a huge hit in the film. Lili (1953) as the title character (played by Leslie Caron) as the character's love passion, the studio kept him on for him. Ferrer and Caron also received a hit single out of it, "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo," which was another huge success. Ferrer's Saadia (1953), which Ferrer produced with Cornel Wilde, was a failure, but Knights of the Round Table (1954), in which Ferrer played King Arthur, was another success. At a party, Ferrer met actress Audrey Hepburn; she wanted to do a play together. In Ondine (1954) on Broadway and Wed in 1954, they appeared in Ondine (1954) on Broadway and wed.

Ferrer went to Proibito (1954) in Italy and Oh... in England.

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Powell and Pressburger directed (1955). Neither film was well known, but War and Peace (1956) was a big success; Ferrer played Prince Andrei and co-starring then-wife Audrey Hepburn. In France, he co-starred in Elena and Her Men (1956), directed by Jean Renoir.

Ferrer and Hepburn created Mayerling (1957) for American television; in some countries, it was broadcast theatrically. Ferrer and Pier Angeli produced The Vintage (1957), a major flop. He made two films for the twentieth century Fox: an all-star version of The Sun Also Rises (1957) and Fräulein (1958), a war tale with Dana Wynter. He played one of the world's last three people on Earth, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), another flop. Ferrer came from Italy to star in Roger Vadim's vampire film Blood and Roses (1960). He appeared in the Italian adventure film Charge of the Black Lancers (1962), after an English horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960). He was one of several actors in The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) and The Longest Day (1962). In The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), he had a cameo in his wife's Paris When It Sizzles (1964) and was Marcus Aurelius Cleander. (1964).

Ferrer went back to television to film some of Inger Stevens, William Windom, and Cathleen Nesbitt's Daughter (1963–66). Ferrer appeared in Sex and the Single Girl (1964) as a mentor. He appeared on Falcon Crest from 1981 to 1984 (as well as producing several episodes). In the Columbo episode "Requiem for a Fallen Star," starring Anne Baxter, he appeared as a blackmailing reporter. In an episode of the long-running Angela Lansbury film Murder She Wrote, he appeared opposite Cyd Charisse and appeared in two television miniseries, Peter the Great (1986) and Dream West (1986). Eye of the Widow (1991) and Catherine the Great (1995) are among the Widow's later credits.

Ferrer also appeared in El Greco (1966), playing the renowned painter. Wait Until Dark (1967), starring his wife, was also a big success.

In 1968, Hepburn and Hepburn divorced.

Ferrer was largely a jobsick actor in the 1970s, with much of it in Italy. A Time for Loving (1972) in Italy; The Antichrist (1974) in Italy; Brannigan (1974), a crime drama starring John Wayne; and The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), a film shot in London; The Black Corsair (1976) in Italy; Seagulls Fly Low (1977).

He was in Hi-Riders (1978), The Norseman (1978), Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979), and The Fifth Floor (1979). In 1979, he portrayed Dr. Brogli in an episode of Return of the Saint. He was in The Visitor (1979), Island of the Fishmen (1980), Nightmare City (1980), The Great Alligator River (1980) and Eaten Alive (1980). (1980) He went to Germany for Lili Marleen (1981). He appeared in two of Spanish actress Marisol's film sets, Cabriola and La molino del molino rojo, the first director of the first and actor in the second.

Mel Ferrer, a Hollywood Walk of Fame actor, is known for his contributions to the motion picture industry. 6268 Hollywood Blvd.

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