Mel Ferrer, actor and ex-husband of Audrey Hepburn
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Mel Ferrer was best known internationally as a gangling, gauntly handsome, if somewhat inexpressive leading man of Hollywood films, and for his marriage in the 1960s to Audrey Hepburn. (article 4)
He had a multi-faceted career which took in writing, publishing, radio, and the Broadway stage, and he produced and directed films as well as acting in them. (article 4)
His fortunes took a severe dip in the 1960s and 1970s when he was reduced to appearing in cheaply made Italian horror films, but he enjoyed a modest late success on American television, notably in the soap opera, Falcon Crest. (article 4)
He was born Melchor Gaston Ferrer, the son of a Cuban-born surgeon and a New York socialite, in Elberon, New Jersey, in 1917. (article 4)
Then it was back to the stage and a first appearance on Broadway as a chorus dancer in Cole Porter's You'll Never Know in 1938. (article 4)
He had been in failing health for six months and had recently moved to the home from his nearby ranch in Carpinteria, his son said. (article 1)
Ferrer and Hepburn costarred in a television version of "Mayerling and Ferrer directed Hepburn in the 1959 film" Green Mansions. (article 3)
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Ferrer, Hepburn, films, directed, Lili |
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- Mel Ferrer, 90; dashing actor became producer, director (boston.com, 06/04/2008, 619 words)
- News for Dallas, Texas (dallasnews.com, 06/04/2008, 534 words)
- Audrey Hepburn's ex, director Mel Ferrer, dies (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 610 words)
- Mel Ferrer, actor and ex-husband of Audrey Hepburn (timesonline.co.uk, 06/05/2008, 1027 words)
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