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• Autre nom: Mel Ferrer
• Il est né le 25 août 1917 dans Elberon, Long Branch, Mommouth, New Jersey, USA.
• Profession: American actor, film director and film producer.
• Il est décédé le 2 juin 2008 dans Santa Barbara, California, Verenigde Staten, il avait 90 ans.
• Un enfant de José Maria FERRER et Mary Mathilde Irene O'DONOHUE

Famille de Melchior FERRER

(1) Il est marié avec Frances Gunby PILCHARD.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1937, il avait 19 ans.

Les époux ont divorcé en 1939.

(2) Il est marié avec Barbara C TRIPP.

Ils se sont mariés le 6 octobre 1942 à Garland County, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten, il avait 25 ans.

Les époux ont divorcé en 1944.

(3) Il est marié avec Audrey Kathleen Ruston HEPBURN.

Ils se sont mariés le 25 septembre 1954, il avait 37 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. (Ne pas publique)

Les époux ont divorcé le 5 décembre 1968.

(4) Il a/avait une relation avec (Ne pas publique).

Evénement (unmarried) entre le 1968 et le 1971.

(5) Il est marié avec Elizabeth SOUKHOTINE.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1971, il avait 53 ans.

Notes par Melchior FERRER

Melchior Gastón Ferrer[1] (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor and director of stage and screen, film producer and the first husband of Audrey Hepburn.

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Early life
Ferrer was born in the Elberon section of Long Branch, New Jersey, of Cuban and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (1857–1920), was born in Cuba, of Spanish ancestry, and was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City.[2] His American mother, Mary Matilda Irene (née O'Donohue; 1878–1967),[3] 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.[4]

Ferrer had three siblings. His elder sister was Dr. M. Irené Ferrer, a cardiologist and educator, who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram.[5] She died in 2004 in Manhattan, New York at age 89 of pneumonia and congestive heart failure.

His brother, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, born 1912, was a surgeon; he died in 1982 at age 70 after an abdominal surgery complication. His other sister, Teresa (Terry) Ferrer, was the religion editor of The New York Herald Tribune and education editor of Newsweek.[4][6] The family is not related to actors José and Miguel Ferrer.

His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were prominent Roman Catholics. Mel Ferrer's aunt, Marie Louise O'Donohue (Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue, Jr.) was named a papal countess,[7] and his mother's sister, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in American Catholic charities and welfare organizations, was granted permission by Pope Pius XI to install a private chapel in her New York City apartment.[8]

Ferrer was privately educated at the Bovée School in New York (one of his classmates was the future author Louis Auchincloss) and Canterbury Prep School in Connecticut before attending Princeton University until his sophomore year, at which time he dropped out to devote more time to acting. He also worked as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, Tito's Hats (Garden City Publishing, 1940).[9]

Career

Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer on the set of War and Peace in 1955
Early theatre work
Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and in 1937 won the Theatre Intime award for best new play by a Princeton undergraduate; the play was called Awhile to Work and co-starred another college student, Frances Pilchard, who would become Ferrer's first wife that same year.[10]

At age twenty-one, he was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. He appeared as a chorus dancer in two unsuccessful musicals, Cole Porter's You Never Know and Everywhere I Roam.

His first acting roles were in a revival of Kind Lady (1940) and Cue for Passion (1940), directed by Otto Preminger.[11][12]

After a bout with polio, Ferrer worked as a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and moved to Mexico to work on a novel, Tito's Hat, which was published in 1940.

Columbia Pictures
Ferrer was contracted to Columbia Pictures as a director, along with several other "potentials" who began as dialogue directors: Fred Sears, William Castle, Henry Levin and Robert Gordon.[13]

Among the films he worked on were Louisiana Hayride (1944), They Live in Fear (1944), Sergeant Mike (1944), Together Again (1944), Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944), Let's Go Steady (1944), Ten Cents a Dance (1945), and A Thousand and One Nights (1945). Some of these were Bs but others – such as Thousand and One Nights – were more prestigious.

Ferrer directed The Girl of the Limberlost (1945), a B movie starring Ruth Nelson.

Broadway
Eventually, he returned to Broadway, where he starred in Strange Fruit (1945–46), a play based on the novel by Lillian Smith. It was directed by José Ferrer (no relation).

Ferrer then directed José Ferrer in the 1946 stage production of Cyrano de Bergerac.[14]

He worked as an assistant on The Fugitive (1947), directed by John Ford in Mexico. Along with Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Cotten, he founded the La Jolla Playhouse in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla.

Screen actor
Ferrer made his screen acting debut with a starring role in Lost Boundaries (1949), playing a black person who passes for white. The film was controversial but much acclaimed.[15]

Howard Hughes
Ferrer had a supporting role in Born to Be Bad (1950) at RKO, directed by Nicholas Ray. At that studio, he directed Claudette Colbert in The Secret Fury (1950) and did some directing on Vendetta (1950), The Racket (1951) and Macao (1952). Ferrer then starred as a bullfighter in The Brave Bulls (1951) for Robert Rossen at Columbia. Ferrer fought with Arthur Kennedy over Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious (1952) directed by Fritz Lang at RKO.

MGM
Ferrer went to MGM, replacing Fernando Lamas as the villain in Scaramouche (1952). The film, particularly notable for a long, climactic swordfight between Ferrer and Stewart Granger, was a huge hit.

MGM kept him on for Lili (1953), playing the puppeteer loved by Leslie Caron's title character. It was another big success; Ferrer and Caron also got a hit single out of it, "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo". Saadia (1953), which Ferrer made with Cornel Wilde, was a flop, but Knights of the Round Table (1954), in which Ferrer played King Arthur, was another big hit.

Ferrer met Audrey Hepburn at a party; she wanted to do a play together. They appeared in Ondine (1954) on Broadway and later got married.

Europe
Ferrer went to Italy to make Proibito (1954) and to England for Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955), directed by Powell and Pressburger. Neither film was widely seen, but War and Peace (1956) was a big success; Ferrer played Prince Andrei, co-starring with then-wife Audrey Hepburn. In France, he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman in Elena and Her Men (1956), directed by Jean Renoir.

United States
Ferrer and Hepburn made Mayerling (1957) for American television; it was released theatrically in some countries.

Ferrer returned to MGM to make The Vintage (1957) with Pier Angeli, which was a big flop. He made two films for 20th Century Fox: an all-star adaptation of The Sun Also Rises (1957) and Fräulein (1958), a war story with Dana Wynter. At MGM, he played one of the last three people on Earth in The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), another flop.

Ferrer went to Italy to star in Roger Vadim's vampire movie Blood and Roses (1960). After an English horror film, The Hands of Orlac (1960), he starred in the Italian adventure film Charge of the Black Lancers (1962).

Ferrer was one of several stars in The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) and The Longest Day (1962). He had a cameo in his wife's Paris When It Sizzles (1964) and was Marcus Aurelius Cleander in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).

Ferrer turned to television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter (1963–1966) starring Inger Stevens.

Ferrer had a supporting role in Sex and the Single Girl (1964).

Producer
Ferrer produced and starred in the biopic El Greco (1966), playing the famous painter. He also produced Wait Until Dark (1967), starring his wife, another big hit. He and Hepburn divorced in 1968.

1970s
Ferrer was mostly a jobbing actor in the 1970s, working much in Italy. Among his credits were A Time for Loving (1972); The Antichrist (1974) in Italy; Brannigan (1974), a crime drama set in London that starred John Wayne; Silent Action (1975) and The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), both for Sergio Martino; The Net (1975), shot in Germany; The Black Corsair (1976), an Italian swashbuckler; Gangbuster (1977) in Italy; The Pyjama Girl Case (1977); Seagulls Fly Low (1977).

He also played a blackmailing reporter in the Columbo episode "Requiem for a Fallen Star", starring Anne Baxter.

In America, he was in Hi-Riders (1978), The Norseman (1978), Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979), and The Fifth Floor (1979). In 1979, he portrayed Dr. Brogli in an episode of Return of the Saint.

In Europe, he was in The Visitor (1979), Island of the Fishmen (1980), Nightmare City (1980), The Great Alligator River (1980) and Eaten Alive! (1980). He went to Germany for Lili Marleen (1981)

He also appeared in two films with Marisol, the Spanish star: Cabriola (as director) and La chica del molino rojo (as actor).

Later career
From 1981 to 1984, he had a role opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney and briefly her husband Phillip Erikson in the soap opera Falcon Crest, as well as directing a few of the episodes. He also appeared in the miniseries Peter the Great (1986) and Dream West (1986). Later credits include Eye of the Widow (1991) and Catherine the Great (1995).

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Blvd.

Personal life
Ferrer was married five times, to four women, with whom he had six children. His wives were:

Frances Gunby Pilchard, his first and third wife, an actress who became a sculptor.[16] They married in 1937, and divorced in 1939 after having one child together.[17]
Barbara C. Tripp, they married in 1940 and later divorced. They had two children: daughter Mela Ferrer (born 1943) and son Christopher Ferrer (born 1944).
Frances Gunby Pilchard, for the 2nd time; they remarried in 1944, and divorced in 1953, after having two more children together: Pepa Philippa Ferrer and Mark Young Ferrer (born 1944).
Audrey Hepburn, to whom he was married from 1954 until 1968. They had one son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer (born 1960).
Elizabeth Soukhotine, from Belgium, to whom he was married from 1971 to his death in 2008.[17]
Before his marriage to Elizabeth Soukhotine in 1971, Ferrer also had a relationship with 29-year-old interior designer Tessa Kennedy.[18][19]

Death
A resident of Carpinteria, California, Ferrer died of heart failure at a convalescent home in Santa Barbara on June 2, 2008.[14] He was 90 years old.

Filmography
As actor
The Fugitive (1947) as Father Serra (uncredited)
Lost Boundaries (1949) as Scott Mason Carter
Born to Be Bad (1950) as Gobby
The Brave Bulls (1951) as Luis Bello
Rancho Notorious (1952) as Frenchy Fairmont
Scaramouche (1952) as Noel, Marquis de Maynes
Lili (1953) as Paul Berthalet
Saadia (1953) as Henrik
Knights of the Round Table (1953) as Arthur
Proibito (1954) as Don Paolo Salinas
Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) as Capt. Alfred Westerman
War and Peace (1956) as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Elena and Her Men (aka, Paris Does Strange Things, 1956) as Le comte Henri de Chevincourt
Mayerling (1957 TV film; with Audrey Hepburn) as Crown Prince Rudolph
The Vintage (1957) as Giancarlo Barandero
The Sun Also Rises (1957) as Robert Cohn
Fräulein (1958) as Maj. Foster MacLain
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959) as Benson Thacker
Blood and Roses (1960) as Leopoldo De Karnstein
Ladies Man [fr] (1960) as Georges Gauthier
The Hands of Orlac (1960) as Stephen Orlac
Love, Freedom and Treachery [it] (1961) as Mirko
Charge of the Black Lancers (1962) as Andrea
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) as Philip Allan (segment "Luxurieux point ne seras")
The Longest Day (1962) (He was originally signed to play the role of General James M. Gavin, but withdrew from the role due to a scheduling conflict.[20]) as Maj. General Robert Haines
Marco Polo (1962) - Unfinished film
Charade (1963) as Man smoking cigarette in nightclub (uncredited cameo)
Paris When It Sizzles (1964) as Costume Party Jekyll & Hyde (uncredited cameo)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Cleander
Sex and the Single Girl (1964) as Rudy
Who Are My Own [es] (a.k.a. El señor de La Salle, 1964) as Juan Bautista de La Salle
El Greco (1966) as El Greco (Domenico Teotocopulo)
Wait Until Dark (1967) as French-Canadian Radio Speaker (uncredited voice)
A Time for Loving (1972) as Dr. Harrison
Carola (1973 TV film) as Gen. Franz von Clodius
The Girl from the Red Cabaret [es] (1973) as Dalton Harvey
The Antichrist (1974) as Massimo Oderisi
Brannigan (1975) as Fields
Silent Action (1975) as District Attorney Mannino
The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) as Police superintendent
The Net (1975) as Aurelio Morelli
The Black Corsair (1976) as Van Gould
Eaten Alive (1977) as Harvey Wood
Gangbuster (1977) as Peseti, the Boss
The Pyjama Girl Case (1977) as Professor Henry Douglas
Seagulls Fly Low (1978) as Roberto Micheli
Hi-Riders (1978) as Sheriff
The Norseman (1978) as King Eurich
Yesterday's Tomorrow (a.k.a. Zwischengleis, 1978) as Colonel Stone
The Fifth Floor (1978) as Dr. Sidney Coleman
L'immoralità [it] (1978) as Vera's husband
Screamers (a.k.a. Island of the Fishmen, 1979) as Radcliffe (US version)
Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979) (uncredited)
The Visitor (1979) as Dr. Walker
The Great Alligator River (1979) as Joshua
Eaten Alive! (a.k.a. Doomed to Die, 1980) as Professor Carter
Top of the Hill (1980) as Andreas Heggener
The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980) as Dr. Sanford
Nightmare City (1980) as Murchison
Lili Marleen (1981) as David Mendelsson
Vultures on the City [fr] (1981)
Mille milliards de dollars (1982) as Cornelius A. Woeagen
Deadly Game (a.k.a. Die Jäger, 1982) as Stephan Mathiesen
One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982 TV film) as Carl Charnock
A Soft Sunset (1984) as Franz Bollenstein
Eye of the Widow (1991) as Frankenheimer the CIA chief
As director
The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
The Fugitive (1947) (directorial assistant)
The Secret Fury (1950)
Vendetta (1950) (uncredited)
The Racket (1951) (uncredited)
Macao (1952) (uncredited)
Green Mansions (1959)
Cabriola (1965)
As dialogue coach
Louisiana Hayride (1944)
They Live in Fear (1944)
Sergeant Mike (1944)
Together Again (1944)
Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944)
Let's Go Steady (1945)
Ten Cents a Dance (1945)
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
TV episodes and miniseries
For TV movies, see filmography.
Columbo: Requiem for a falling star (1973) as Jerry Parks
Alle origini della mafia [it] (1976 TV miniseries) as Armando Della Morra
Hawaii Five-O (1977), episodes "The Bells Toll at Noon" as Father Neill and "To Kill a Mind" as Emil Radick
Falcon Crest (1981–1984) as Phillip Erikson
Peter the Great (1986 TV miniseries) as Frederick
Dream West (1986 TV miniseries) as Judge Elkins
Catherine the Great (1995 TV miniseries) as Patriarch

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