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Mel Ferrer: Biography

Mel Ferrer

Birth Name: Melchior Gaston Ferrer
Birth Place: Elberon, NJ
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 08/25/1917, Virgo
Date of Death: 06/02/2008
Profession: Actor; director; producer; writer

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Mel Ferrer Fast Facts:

First Broadway appearance was as a chorus dancer in 1938's You Never Know; returned to star in Strange Fruit in 1945.
Wrote a children's book titled Tito's Hats in 1940; later worked as a book and newspaper editor.
Made his feature directing debut in 1945 with the drama The Girl of the Limberlost.
First big-screen acting role came with 1949's Lost Boundaries, in which he portrayed a light-skinned black doctor posing as white.
Directed then-wife Audrey Hepburn in 1959 romance Green Mansions, and produced her critically acclaimed thriller Wait Until Dark (1967).
Took on his first series-regular role in the early '80s, playing Phillip Erikson on the prime-time soap Falcon Crest.
Frequently starred in stage and screen productions, but maintained that he disliked acting and preferred to direct.

Mel Ferrer Relationships:
Elizabeth Soukhotine - Wife
Jose M. Ferrer - Brother
Audrey Hepburn - Ex-wife
Mary Matilda Irene Ferrer - Mother
Frances Gunby Pilchard - Ex-wife
Pepa Ferrer - Daughter
Peter - Son
Sean Hepburn Ferrer - Son
Mark Ferrer - Son
Christopher - Son
Barbara Tripp - Ex-wife
Mela - Daughter
Marie Irene Ferrer - Sister
Jose Maria Ferrer - Father
Terry Ferrer - Sister
College:
Attended Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

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