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Mel Ferrer

Male 1917 - 2008  (90 years)    Has no ancestors but 4 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Mel Ferrer 
    Birth 25 Aug 1917  Elberon, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Jun 2008 
    Person ID I45384  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 9 Dec 2012 

    Family 1 Barbara C. Tripp 
    Marriage
    • 2 children
    Family ID F147901  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2002 

    Family 2 Frances Pilchard 
    Marriage 1937 
    Divorce Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F147899  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2002 

    Family 3 Frances Pilchard 
    Divorce Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F147900  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2002 

    Family 4 Audry Hepburn,   b. 4 May 1929, Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, België Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jan 1993, Tolochenaz, Confoederatio Helvetica Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Marriage 15 Sep 1954 
    Divorce 5 Dec 1968 
    Children 
     1. NN Ferrers,   b. Mar 1955   d. Mar 1955 (Age 0 years)
     2. NN Ferrers,   b. 1959   d. 1959 (Age 0 years)
     3. Living
     4. NN Ferrers,   b. 1965   d. 1965 (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F19186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Apr 2002 

    Family 5 Elizabeth Soukutine 
    Marriage 1971 
    Family ID F141062  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Jan 2002 

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  • Notes 
    • bef 1954 twice-divorced, a father of four, an actor, stage and film director

      son of a Cuban-born surgeon and a Manhattan socialite, he went to prep school and attended Princeton University. From the age of 15 he worked in summer stock. After Princeton he became an editor on a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, "Tito's Hats." He became a chorus dancer on Broadway in 1938 in two musicals and made his New York debut as an actor two years later. After a bout with polio he started in radio as a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and rose to producer-director of top-rated shows for NBC in New York. In 1945 he made a modest debut as a film director at Columbia with the Iow-budget "The Girl of the Limberlost" then returned to act- ing on Broadway to star in Lillian Smith's "Strange Fruit." In 1947 he was John Ford's assistant on the film "The Fugitive." Ferrer then made his screen acting debut in 1949 in "Lost Boundaries." He is best remembered for the role of the lame puppeteer in "Lili" and Prince Andrei in "War and Peace." He directed Claudette Colbert in "The Secret Fury" and Audrey Hepburn in "Green Mansions." Ferrer produced "Wait Until Dark" in I967 and since 1960 he has been producing and acting mainly in Europe. Ferrer is married and lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.



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