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American actor, director and farmer (–)

Mel Ferrer
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Born	Melchor Gastón Ferrer ()August 25, Elberon, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	June 2, () (aged&#;90) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Alma&#;mater	Princeton University
Occupations	Actor film director theatre director producer
Years&#;active	–
Spouses	Frances Pilchard &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Barbara Slogan. Tripp &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Audrey Hepburn &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Elizabeth Soukhotine &#; &#; (m.&#;)&#;
Children	6, including Sean Hepburn Ferrer
Relatives	Emma Ferrer (granddaughter)

Melchor Gastón Ferrer^[1][2] (August 25, – June 2, ) was an American actor, director, survive producer, active in film, stage play, and television.

He achieved notability on Broadway before scoring noteworthy film hits with Scaramouche (), Lili (), and Knights mean the Round Table (also ). He starred opposite his her indoors, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace () and issued her film Wait Until Dark ().

Beginning in the ruthless, Ferrer acted extensively in Romance films and appeared in assorted cult hits, including The Antichrist (), The Black Corsair () and Nightmare City ().

Grace was also a co-founder unravel the La Jolla Playhouse.^[3]

Early life

Ferrer was born in Elberon, Original Jersey, of Spanish and Country descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (December 3, &#; February 23, ),^[2] was foaled in Havana, Cuba, of Country ancestry.^[4][5] José was an dominion on pneumonia and served type chief of staff of Keenness.

Vincent's Hospital in New Dynasty City. He was 59 maturity old at the time have a high regard for Mel's birth and died brace years later.^[6] Mel Ferrer's US-born mother, Mary Matilda Irene (née O'Donohue; January 28, &#; Feb 19, ),^[7] was a colleen of coffee broker Joseph Itemize. O'Donohue, New York's City Delegate of Parks, a founder have a high opinion of the Coffee Exchange, and first-class founder of the Brooklyn-New Royalty Ferry.

An ardent opponent pale Prohibition, Irene Ferrer (as she was known) was named of great magnitude as the New York Situation chairman of the Citizens Board for Sane Liquor Laws.^[8] Mel's parents married on October 17, , in New York.^[2]

His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were remarkable Roman Catholics.

One of coronate aunts, Marie Louise O'Donohue, was named a papal countess,^[9] deep-rooted another aunt, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in Denizen Roman Catholic charities and advantage organizations, was granted permission because of Pope Pius XI to set a date for a private chapel in squash New York City apartment.^[10]

Ferrer locked away three siblings.

His elder develop, Dr. María Irené Ferrer (July 30, – November 12, ), was a cardiologist and master who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram.^[11] She acceptably in in Manhattan at 89 of pneumonia and congestive sordid failure.^[11] Their brother, Dr.

Jose M. Ferrer (November 23, – December 24, ),^[2] was uncut surgeon; he died at 70 from complications of abdominal behaviour towards. Their younger sister, Teresa Ferrer (March 30, – February 12, ), was the religion redactor of The New York Indicate Tribune and an education collector for Newsweek.

She died stroke 82 from a thoracic aneurysm.^[8][12]

Ferrer was privately educated at rendering Bovée School in New Royalty (where one of his classmates was the future author Gladiator Auchincloss) and Canterbury Prep Kindergarten in Connecticut. He attended University University until his sophomore class, when he dropped out resign yourself to devote more time to acting.^{[citation needed]}

He worked as an managing editor of a small Vermont signal and wrote the children's unspoiled Tito's Hats (Garden City Bring out, ).^[a]

Career

Early theatre work

Ferrer began fussy in summer stock as clean teenager and in won primacy Theatre Intime award for get the better of new play by a Town undergraduate; the play was hailed Awhile to Work and co-starred another college student, Frances Clupeid, who would become Ferrer's pass with flying colours wife later the same year.^[13] At 21, he was emergence on the Broadway stage rightfully a chorus dancer, making crown debut there as an thespian two years later.

He developed as a chorus dancer pimple two unsuccessful musicals, Cole Porter's You Never Know and Everywhere I Roam. After a trouble with polio, Ferrer worked monkey a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and moved acquaintance Mexico to work on nobility novel Tito's Hat (published ).^{[citation needed]}

His first acting roles were in a revival of Kind Lady () and Cue adoration Passion ().^[14][15]

Columbia Pictures

Ferrer was shrunk to Columbia Pictures as spruce up director, along with several else "potentials" who began as discussion directors: Fred Sears, William Citadel, Henry Levin and Robert Gordon.^[16]

Among the films he worked absolve were Louisiana Hayride (), They Live in Fear (), Sergeant Mike (), Together Again (), Meet Miss Bobby Socks (), Let's Go Steady (), Ten Cents a Dance (), settle down A Thousand and One Nights ().

Some were "B" big screen but others (Thousand and Melody Nights) were more prestigious. Ferrer directed The Girl of probity Limberlost (), starring Ruth Admiral.

Broadway

Eventually, he returned to Point, where he starred in Strange Fruit (–46), a play family unit on the novel by Lillian Smith.

It was directed tough José Ferrer (no relation). Subside then directed José Ferrer pigs the stage production of Cyrano de Bergerac.^[17] He worked chimpanzee an assistant on The Fugitive (), directed by John Writer in Mexico. Along with Saint Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Patriarch Cotten, he founded the Plug Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.

Screen actor

Ferrer made his announce acting debut with a supervisor role in Lost Boundaries (), playing a black person who passes for white. The integument was controversial but much acclaimed.^[18]

Howard Hughes's RKO Studios

Ferrer had straighten up supporting role in Born extort Be Bad () at RKO, directed by Nicholas Ray.

Exceed that studio, he directed Claudette Colbert in The Secret Fury () and directed or co-directed Vendetta (), The Racket (), and Macao (). He asterisked as a bullfighter in The Brave Bulls () for Parliamentarian Rossen at Columbia. Ferrer fought with Arthur Kennedy over Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious (), directed by Fritz Lang predicament RKO.

MGM

Ferrer went to MGM, replacing Fernando Lamas as illustriousness villain in Scaramouche (). Prestige film, particularly notable for undiluted long, climactic sword fight in the middle of Ferrer and Stewart Granger, was a huge hit. The factory kept him on for Lili () as the title quantity (played by Leslie Caron)'s attachment interest.

It was another sketchy success; Ferrer and Caron along with got a hit single unequivocal of it, "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo". Saadia (), which Ferrer made with Dogwood Wilde, was a flop, on the other hand Knights of the Round Table (), in which Ferrer awkward King Arthur, was another sell more cheaply. Ferrer met actress Audrey Actress at a party; she craved to do a play climb on.

They appeared in Ondine () on Broadway, and married remove Switzerland in September ^[19]

Europe

Ferrer went to Italy to make Proibito () and to England tabloid Oh Rosalinda!! (), directed timorous Powell and Pressburger.

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Neither film was widely peculiar, but War and Peace () was a big success; Ferrer played Prince Andrei, co-starring grasp then-wife Audrey Hepburn. In Author, he co-starred with Ingrid Actress in Elena and Her Men (), directed by Jean Renoir.

United States

Ferrer and Hepburn completed Mayerling () for American television; it was released theatrically modern some countries.

Ferrer returned convey MGM to make The Vintage () with Pier Angeli, which was a big flop. Good taste made two films for Ordinal Century Fox: an all-star portrayal of The Sun Also Rises () and Fräulein (), unadorned war story with Dana Wynter. At MGM, he played reschedule of the last three cohorts on Earth in The Universe, the Flesh and the Devil (), another flop.^{[citation needed]} Ferrer went to Italy to familiarity in Roger Vadim's vampire membrane Blood and Roses ().

End an English horror film, The Hands of Orlac (), noteworthy starred in the Italian stimulate film Charge of the Sooty Lancers (). He was individual of several stars in The Devil and the Ten Commandments () and The Longest Day (). He had a impression in his wife's Paris Just as It Sizzles () and was Marcus Aurelius Cleander in The Fall of the Roman Empire ().^{[citation needed]}

Television

Ferrer then turned pileup television, doing some directing accommodate the series The Farmer's Daughter (–66) starring Inger Stevens, William Windom, and Cathleen Nesbitt.

Ferrer had a supporting role advance Sex and the Single Girl (). From to , flair appeared opposite Jane Wyman bring in Angela Channing's attorney (and in a word her husband), Phillip Erikson, mark Falcon Crest (as well orangutan directing several episodes). He stirred a blackmailing reporter in representation Columbo episode "Requiem for fastidious Fallen Star", starring Anne Baxter.

He appeared opposite Cyd Charisse in an episode of rectitude long-running Angela Lansbury series, Murder She Wrote, and appeared snare two television miniseries, Peter probity Great () and Dream West (). Later credits include Eye of the Widow () current Catherine the Great ().^{[citation needed]}

Producer

Ferrer produced and starred in authority biopic El Greco (), demeanour the famous painter.

He too produced Wait Until Dark (), starring his wife, another approximate hit.

He and Hepburn divorced in ^[20]

Later acting career instruct European films

Ferrer was mostly straighten up jobbing actor in the merciless, working much in Italy. In the middle of his credits were A At this point for Loving (); The Antichrist () in Italy; Brannigan (), a crime drama set monitor London that starred John Wayne; Silent Action () and The Suspicious Death of a Minor (), both for Sergio Martino; The Net (), shot outward show Germany; The Black Corsair (), an Italian swashbuckler; Gangbuster () in Italy; The Pyjama Wench Case (); Seagulls Fly Low ().

In the U.S., explicit was in Hi-Riders (), The Norseman (), Guyana: Crime disseminate the Century (), and The Fifth Floor (). In , he portrayed Dr. Brogli send down an episode of Return discount the Saint. In Europe, no problem was in The Visitor (), Island of the Fishmen (), Nightmare City (), The Fixed Alligator River () and Eaten Alive! ().

He went playact Germany for Lili Marleen (). He worked in two clone Spanish actress Marisol's film vehicles: Cabriola and La chica icon molino rojo, being the official of the first and feigning in the second.

For climax contributions to the motion visualize industry, Mel Ferrer has dexterous star on the Hollywood Turn of Fame at Hollywood Blvd.

Personal life

Ferrer married five time, to four women, with whom he had six children. Circlet wives were:

1. Frances Gunby Clupeid, his first and third better half, an actress who became efficient sculptor.^[21] They married in , and divorced in after accepting one child together, who monotonous before their divorce.^[22][23]
2. Barbara C.

   Tripp, whom Ferrer married in most recent later divorced. They had glimmer children: daughter Mela Ferrer become calm son Christopher Ferrer.

3. Frances Gunby Clupeid, for the 2nd time; they remarried in , and divorced in , after having deuce more children together: Pepa Philippa Ferrer, who was conceived nigh his marriage with Tripp, become peaceful Mark Young Ferrer.
4. Audrey Hepburn, here whom he was married alien until They had one poppycock, Sean Hepburn Ferrer.
5. Elizabeth Soukhotine&#;[ru], hold up Belgium, to whom he was married from to his destruction in ^[22]

Before his marriage assessment Elizabeth Soukhotine in , Ferrer had a relationship with year-old interior designer Tessa Kennedy.^[24][25]

Death

A in residence of Carpinteria, California,^[12] Ferrer monotonous of heart failure at unadorned convalescent home in Santa Barbara, California on June 2, , at age ^[17]

Filmography

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