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Mel Ferrer

Ferrer in trailer for Lili (1953)
Born Melchor Gaston Ferrer
August 25, 1917(1917-08-25)
Elberon, New Jersey, United States
Died June 2, 2008 (aged 90)
Occupation actor, director, producer
Years active 1937–1998
Spouse(s) Frances Pilchard (1937–1939, 1944–19??)
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Audrey Hepburn (1954–1968)
Elizabeth Soukhoutine (1971–2008)

Mel Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor, film director and film producer. Audrey Hepburn ( &ndash) was an English/Dutch Academy Award - Emmy Award - Tony Award - and Grammy Award -winning film and stage actress Events 1248 - The Dutch city of Ommen receives city rights and fortification rights from Otto III the Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies.

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Early life

Melchor Gaston Ferrer[1] was born in Elberon, New Jersey, of Spanish and Irish descent. Elberon is an unincorporated area that is part of Long Branch in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (1857–1920), was born in Cuba and was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center (SVCMC locally referred to simply as "St [2] His American mother, the former Mary Matilda Irene O'Donohue (1878–1967),[3] was a daughter of coffee broker Joseph J. O'Donohue, New York's City Commissioner of Parks, a founder of the Coffee Exchange, and a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry. An ardent opponent of Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws. Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as Noble Experiment, refers to a Sumptuary law which prohibits Alcohol [4]

Ferrer had three siblings. His elder sister was Dr. M. Irené Ferrer, a cardiologist and educator, who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram. [1] His brother, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, was also a surgeon. Another sister, Teresa (Terry) Ferrer, was the religion editor of The New York Herald Tribune and education editor of Newsweek. The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. Newsweek is an American weekly Newsmagazine published in New York City. [5][6] The family is not related to actors Jose Ferrer and Miguel Ferrer. José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón ( January 8, 1909 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican theater and Miguel José Ferrer (born February 7, 1955) is a Screen Actors Guild Award -winning American Actor, who is often typecast

His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were prominent Roman Catholics. Mel Ferrer's aunt Marie Louise O'Donohue (Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue, Jr. ) was named a papal countess,[7] and his mother's sister, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in American Catholic charities and welfare organizations, was granted permission by Pope Pius XI to install a private chapel in her New York City apartment. A count is a Nobleman in European countries The word count comes from French comte, itself from Latin Pope Pius XI ( Latin: Pius PP XI; Italian: Pio XI; May 31 1857 &ndash February 10 1939) born [8]

Ferrer was privately educated at the Bovée School in New York (one of his classmates was the future author Louis Auchincloss) and Canterbury Prep School in Connecticut before attending Princeton University until his sophomore year. Louis Stanton Auchincloss (pronounced Awk-kin-claus; born September 27, 1917) is a prolific American novelist historian and essayist Canterbury School is a college preparatory coeducational boarding and day school for students in Forms 3 through 6 (grades 9-12 Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. At that time he dropped out to devote more time to acting. He also worked as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, Tito's Hats (Garden City Publishing, 1940). [9]

Career

Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and in 1937 won the Theatre Intime award for best new play by a Princeton undergraduate; the play was called Awhile to Work and co-starred another college student, Frances Pilchard, who would become Ferrer's first wife that same year. Summer Stock is also the title of a 1950 musical motion picture starring Judy Garland [10] At age twenty-one he was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located After a bout with polio, Ferrer worked a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and moved to Mexico to work on a novel. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via

Eventually he returned to Broadway and then became involved in motion pictures, directing more than ten feature films and acting in more than eighty. As a producer, he had notable success with the well-regarded film Wait Until Dark (1967), starring Audrey Hepburn. Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott. The mystery thriller 's Heroine is Susy Hendrix a blind Greenwich Village Audrey Hepburn ( &ndash) was an English/Dutch Academy Award - Emmy Award - Tony Award - and Grammy Award -winning film and stage actress [11] In 1945 Ferrer made a modest directing debut with The Girl of the Limberlost, a low-budget black-and-white film for Columbia. A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August 1909 He returned to Broadway to star in Strange Fruit, based on the novel by Lillian Smith. " Strange Fruit " is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday. He made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries (1949), and as an actor is best remembered for his roles as the injured puppeteer in the musical Lili (1953, starring Leslie Caron), as the villainous Marquis de Maynes in Scaramouche (1952) and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace (1956, co-starring with his then-wife, Audrey Hepburn). Lost Boundaries is a film released in 1949 The movie was directed by Alfred L Lili ( 1953) is an American film Considered one among many classic MGM releases it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (lɛsli kaʁɔ̃ (born 1 July 1931 is a two-time Academy Award-nominated French Film actress and Dancer. Scaramouche is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic Adventure film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

Ferrer never achieved major stardom and later turned towards television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966) starring Inger Stevens, but is best remembered for his role opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney and briefly, her husband, Phillip Erikson, in Falcon Crest from 1981 to 1984. The Farmer's Daughter is an American situation comedy series that was produced by Screen Gems Television and aired on ABC Inger Stevens ( October 18, 1934 – April 30, 1970) was a Golden Globe -winning Emmy -nominated Swedish-American Jane Wyman ( January 5, 1917 &ndash September 10, 2007) was an American actress. Falcon Crest is an American primetime television Soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons from December 4 He also played Dr. Brogli in a 1979 episode of Return of the Saint. Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Blvd. The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a Sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood Los Angeles California, USA, that

Personal life

Ferrer was married five times. His wives were:

  1. Frances Gunby Pilchard, an actress who became a sculptor;[12] daughter of Sewell Norris Pilchard Jr, a physician, and his wife, the former Louise Collier Gunby. They married in 1937 and divorced in 1939.
  2. Barbara C. Tripp. They married in 1940 and later divorced. They had two children: a daughter, Mela Ferrer (born 1943) and a son, Christopher Ferrer (born 1944).
  3. Frances Ferrer (née Pilchard), who had been his first wife. This marriage, which took place in 1944, also ended in divorce. They had two children: Pepa Philippa Ferrer (born 1941) and Mark Young Ferrer (born 1944). [13]
  4. Audrey Hepburn, the actress, to whom he was married from 1954 until 1968. Audrey Hepburn ( &ndash) was an English/Dutch Academy Award - Emmy Award - Tony Award - and Grammy Award -winning film and stage actress They had one child, a son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer (born 1960).
  5. Elizabeth Soukhoutine, whom he married in 1971.

Death

A resident of Carpenteria, California, Ferrer died at a convalescent home in Santa Barbara on June 2, 2008. Santa Barbara is a city in Santa Barbara County California, United States. Events 455 - The Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common [11] He died as a result of heart failure. Heart failure is a Cardiac condition that occurs when a problem with the structure or function of the Heart impairs its ability to supply He was 90 years old.

Partial filmography

Notes and references

  1. ^ Some sources spell his first name as MELCHIOR but this is incorrect based on Ferrer's records at Princeton University. The Fugitive is a 1947 American - Mexican Drama film starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, based on Lost Boundaries is a film released in 1949 The movie was directed by Alfred L Born to Be Bad is a 1950 Melodrama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants Rancho Notorious is a 1952 Western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Marlene Dietrich as the matron of a criminal hideout called Scaramouche is a 1952 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic Adventure film based on the 1921 novel Scaramouche by Rafael Knights of the Round Table is a 1954 historical film made by MGM. Lili ( 1953) is an American film Considered one among many classic MGM releases it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French Oh Rosalinda!! ( is a film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. War and Peace is the first English film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Elena and Her Men is a 1956 film directed by Jean Renoir and starring Ingrid Bergman, and was her first film after leaving husband Roberto The Sun Also Rises is a 1957 film adaptation of the Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name. Fräulein is a 1958 Romance film starring Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer as two people caught up in World War II and the aftermath The World The Flesh and the Devil is a 1959 science fiction doomsday film written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. Blood and Roses is a 1960 French Lesbian vampire film directed by Roger Vadim based upon the novella Carmilla The Longest Day is a 3-hour-long War film with a very large cast based on the 1959 history The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan The Fall of the Roman Empire is a 1964 Epic film made by Samuel Bronston Productions and The Rank Organisation, and released by Paramount Sex and the Single Girl is a best-selling book by Helen Gurley Brown, published in May 1962 Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott. The mystery thriller 's Heroine is Susy Hendrix a blind Greenwich Village W is a 1974 suspense film directed by Richard Quine. Within 24-hours three near-death accidents have occurred Brannigan is a 1975 film set in London starring John Wayne and Richard Attenborough, directed by Douglas Hickox. Eaten Alive (known under various pseudonyms in alternate regions adopting such titles as Death Trap (UK Horror Hotel, The Return of Captain Nemo is a 1978 Science fiction TV movie directed by Alex March and Paul Stader. The Visitor ( 1979) is a Psychological thriller film directed by Giulio Paradisi, based on a story by the Egyptian writer Ovidio Also he was named for his paternal grandfather, Melchor Ferrer. And the name MELCHOR G. FERRER was used on the cover of Tito's Hats, a children's book that Ferrer wrote in 1940.
  2. ^ "Dr. Jose M. Ferrer", Obituaries, The New York Times, 24 February 1920
  3. ^ "Weddings: Ferrer-O'Donohue", The New York Times, October 19, 1910
  4. ^ "Mrs. J. M. Ferrer, Civic Leader, 89", The New York Times, February 21, 1967.
  5. ^ "Mrs. J. M. Ferrer, Civic Leader, 89", The New York Times, February 21, 1967.
  6. ^ "Terry Ferrer, 82, Education Editor", The New York Times, April 1, 2002
  7. ^ "Joseph O'Donohue, Real Estate Man, Dead", The New York Times, October 31, 1937
  8. ^ "Teresa O'Donohue, Charities Worker", The New York Times, August 18, 1937
  9. ^ The book's illustrations were by Jean Charlot. Louis Henri Jean Charlot ( February 8, 1898 - 1979 was a French painter and illustrator active in Mexico and the United States
  10. ^ "M. G. Ferrer Wins Prize Play Award", The New York Times, March 3, 1937, page 27
  11. ^ a b Thomas, Bob. "Mel Ferrer, actor-director, husband of Audrey Hepburn, dies", Yahoo! News, 2008-06-03. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering  
  12. ^ "Catharsis", Time, 10 February 1941
  13. ^ Helen Colton, "Reluctant Star", The New York Times, 4 September 1949

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