Mel Ferrer

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AKA: Melchior Gaston Ferrer
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 08/25/1917
Birthplace: Elberon, New Jersey, USA
Death Date: 06/02/2008

biography

This gaunt, lanky and graceful player, who after a successful career as a radio producer-director and as a dancer and actor on Broadway, moved into film, first as a director and then as a reserved, sensitive and usually romantic leading man. Married to Audrey Hepburn from 1954 to 1968, Ferrer co-starred with her in "War and Peace" (1956), directed her in "Green Mansions" (1959) and produced the tense thriller, "Wait Until Dark" (1967).

Ferrer dropped out of Princeton University in his sophomore year to work as an actor in summer stock. When stardom did not come immediately, he worked on a Continued

Credits

David Mendelssohn
1981
General Murchison
1980
Dr Walker
1979
(uncredited) Guest Star
1964
Robert Cohn
1957
Henri de Chevincourt
1957
Captain Alfred Westerman
Dr Robert Cook
Dr Coleman
King Eurich
Actor
Mel Fields
Van Gould
Prince Andrei
Massimo Oderisi
Daniela's Husband
Harvey Wood
Paul Berthalet
Producer
Director
Colonel Stone
Leopoldo DeKarnstein
Morelli
El Greco
Professor Carter
Don Paolo
Producer
Producer
Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
First stage work with Cape Cod Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts
 
Worked as editor at Stephen Day Press in Vermont
 
Left publishing upon reaching leading-man status at Cape Cod Playhouse
1938 
First Broadway appearance (as chorus dancer) in "You Never Know"
1940 
Wrote children's book, "Tito's Hats"
Continued

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