Mel Ferrer
Gender: Male
Born: 25th August 1917
Died: 2nd June 2008
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Falcon Crest, Behind The Screen
Movies: Brannigan, Eaten Alive, Lili, Oh... Rosalinda!!, Rancho Notorious, Scaramouche, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, War and Peace, Nightmare City, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Elena and Her Men, Blood and Roses, Knights of the Round Table, W, Fräulein, The Sun Also Rises, Born to Be Bad, The AntiChrist, El Greco, Eye of the Widow, Mayerling, The Visitor, Lost Boundaries, Sex and the Single Girl, Wait Until Dark, Lili Marleen, Mangiati Vivi, The Pyjama Girl Case, Seduced, Catherine the Great, Guyana: Crime of the Century, Carola, The Big Alligator River, The Norseman, The Hands of Orlac, Forbidden, Hi-Riders, The Longest Day, A Time for Loving, The Black Corsair
Mel Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor, film director and film producer.
Ferrer was born Melchor Gastón Ferrer in Elberon, New Jersey, of Cuban and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (1857–1920), was born in Cuba, was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. His American mother, the former Mary Matilda Irene O'Donohue (1878–1967), 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.
Ferrer had three siblings. His elder sister was Dr. M. Irené Ferrer, a cardiologist and educator, who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram. His brother, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, was a surgeon. His other sister, Teresa (Terry) Ferrer, was the religion editor of The New York Herald Tribune and education editor of Newsweek. The family is not related to actors José or Miguel Ferrer.
His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were prominent
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