Mel Ferrer
Birth name	Melchor Gaston Ferrer
Born	August 25, 1917 (1917-08-25) (age 90) Elberon, New Jersey
Occupation	actor, director, producer
Years active	1947 - present
Spouse(s)	Frances Gunby Pilchard (1937-1939) Barbara C. Tripp (m.1940) Frances Gunby Pilchard (m.1944) Audrey Hepburn (1954-1968) Elizabeth Soukutine (1971-)
Children	Pepa Phillippa Ferrer Mela Ferrer Christopher Ferrer Mark Young Ferrer Sean Ferrer

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Early life

Born Melchor Gaston Ferrer into a prosperous family, his Cuban-born father a surgeon and his mother a prominent New York City socialite. He is the brother of noted cardiologist and educator, Dr. M. Irené Ferrer and noted surgeon, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer. Mel Ferrer was educated at private schools before attending Princeton University until his sophomore year, when he dropped out to devote more time to acting. At that time he also worked as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, "Tito's Hats." New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ...

Career

Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and at age twenty-one was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. After a bout with polio, he entered the radio world as a DJ in Texas and Arkansas, developing into a producer-director of top-rated shows for NBC in New York. He returned to Broadway and then became involved in motion pictures, directing more than ten feature films and acting in more than eighty. For other uses of Broadway, see Broadway. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as...

In 1945 he made a modest directing debut with The Girl of the Limberlost, a low-budget black-and-white film for Columbia. He returned to Broadway to star in Strange Fruit, based on the novel by Lillian Smith. He made his screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries (1949), and as an actor is best remembered for his role of the injured puppeteer in the musical Lili (1953) (starring Leslie Caron) and as Prince Andrei in War and Peace (1956) (co-starring with his then wife, Audrey Hepburn). A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. ... For other uses, see Strange Fruit (disambiguation). ... Lili is a musical film which opened in March, 1953. ... Leslie Caron (IPA: ) (born July 1, 1931) is an Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy-winning motion picture actress and dancer. ... War and Peace is the first film version of the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. ... Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) was an Academy Award and Tony Award winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ...

Ferrer's career never caught fire, and he pursued limited television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter in (1963), but it best remembered for his role opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney and briefly, her husband, Phillip Erikson, in Falcon Crest from 1981–1984. (Erikson met his demise in the same plane crash that killed Cliff Robertson). Sixteen years after the RKO movie was released, ABC introduced The Farmers Daughter to the television screen on September 20, 1963. ... Jane Wyman (January 5, 1917[1]– September 10, 2007) was an Oscar, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress. ... Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera, primarily about the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti family in the Californian wine industry. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Cliff Robertson. ...

While his profession was acting, not medicine as was the case for several of his relatives, he played the role of Dr. Brogli, in the TV serial "Return of the Saint". The Saint incorrectly thought that Dr. Brogli had murdered the Saint's friend. Dr. Brogli said privately "He thinks I killed Renaldo. If that kind of talk goes around, my practice will shrink to zero in zero seconds." ^[1]

Personal life

He has been married five times, most notably to actress Audrey Hepburn from 1954 to 1968, with whom he had a son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, born in 1960. He and Hepburn had acquired a home in Switzerland and after their divorce he maintained a residence in Lausanne and often worked on films in Europe. He has been married five times to four women (remarrying his first wife, Frances Pilchard, after his divorce from Barbara C. Tripp), and has five children in total by three of the marriages. He dated Tessa Kennedy, an interior designer but a married woman, before his marriage to Lisa Soukhotine in 1971. Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) was an Academy Award and Tony Award winning Anglo-Dutch actress of film and theatre, Broadway stage performer, ballerina, fashion model, and humanitarian. ... Lausanne (pronounced ) is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva (French: Lac Léman), and facing Évian-les-Bains (France) and with the Jura mountains to its north. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Tessa Georgina Kennedy (born 7 December 1938) is a shipping heiress and British interior designer of Croatian and Anglo-Irish descent. ...

He had two children with Frances Pilchard, although the older child, Pilchard, died as an infant.

His sister was the famous cardiologist and educator Dr. M. Irené Ferrer, she helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram (which have become diagnostic essentials in heart treatment).

He is unrelated to actors Jose Ferrer and Miguel Ferrer. José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron, known as José Ferrer (January 8, 1912-January 26, 1992), was an actor and director, born in Santurce, Puerto Rico. ... Miguel Ferrer (born February 7, 1955) is an actor of Puerto Rican-Irish-American descent who is often cast in movies as a villain. ...

For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Blvd. Image:http://www.geocities.com/worldcinema/gorguys/images/ferrer.jpg Buskers perform on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

External links

• Mel Ferrer at the Internet Movie Database
• Mel Ferrer at the TCM Movie Database

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