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Mel Ferrer
Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor, director, and producer, active in film, theatre, and television. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche (1952), Lili (1953), and Knights of the Round Table . He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace (1956) and produced her film Wait Until Dark (1967).
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culture · American actor, director and producer (1917–2008) · film producer · actor · film director · journalist · screenwriter · theatre director · producer · writer · director · stage actor · also Mel Ferrer, Melchor Gastón Ferrer, Melchor Gaston Ferrer, Ferrer
Born 25 August 1917 · Died 2 June 2008 · Q333475
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2008· 1 entry
Died 2008-06-02.
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2004· 1 entry
In Manhattan at 89 of pneumonia and congestive heart failure
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1971· 1 entry
Ferrer had a relationship with 29-year-old interior designer Tessa Kennedy
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1944· 1 entry
And later divorced, after having two more children together: Pepa Philippa Ferrer, who was conceived during his marriage with Tripp, and Mark Young Ferrer
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1937· 2 entries
And divorced in 1939 after having one child together, who died before their divorce
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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 later the sam
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1934· 1 entry
As the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-08-25.
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1916· 1 entry
Tripp (1916-1972), whom Ferrer married in 1940 and later divorced.
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