Mel Ferrer
Date of birth: 1917-08-25
Place of birth: Elberon, New Jersey, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Melchor Gastón Ferrer O’Donohue
Biography
Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche, Lili, and Knights of the Round Table. He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace and produced her film Wait Until Dark. He also acted extensively in European films and appeared in several cult hits, including The Antichrist (1974), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), The Black Corsair (1976), and Nightmare City (1980). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mel Ferrer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Movie Credits
Lili Marleen
1981-01-14
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je
The Amazing Captain Nemo
1978-05-12
Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in ord
A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982-02-09
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinati
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1959-05-01
Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally ma
Wait Until Dark
1967-10-26
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As i
Eaten Alive
1976-12-25
A psychotic redneck owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders those who upset h
Paris When It Sizzles
1964-03-01
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest
War and Peace
1956-08-21
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr
Eaten Alive!
1980-03-19
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an exp
The Sun Also Rises
1957-08-23
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the
Scaramouche
1952-05-08
In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
Sex and the Single Girl
1964-12-25
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to
Brannigan
1975-03-21
A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradit
Island of the Fishmen
1979-01-18
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a s
Rancho Notorious
1952-04-10
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A
Ladies Man
1960-11-16
Sentimental events of a rich industrialist which turn to the criminal case.
Lili
1953-03-10
Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. T
Born to Be Bad
1950-09-28
Christabel Caine has the face of angel and the heart of a swamp rat. She'll step on anyone to get wh
The Pyjama Girl Case
1977-12-31
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found
El señor de La Salle
1964-01-01
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the n
The Norseman
1978-10-05
An 11th-century Viking prince sails to America to find his father, who on a previous voyage had been
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964-03-24
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the mid
The Great Alligator
1979-11-03
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stal
The Suspicious Death of a Minor
1975-08-12
Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is uns
Knights of the Round Table
1953-12-22
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one
The Hands of Orlac
1960-12-01
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed.
L'immoralità
1978-11-20
Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by an 11 year old girl name
Elena and Her Men
1956-09-12
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean R
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962-09-14
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more
Legenden: Audrey Hepburn
2005-08-01
A German documentary about the life of Hollywood icon Audrey Hepburn.
The Visitor
1979-03-22
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reprodu
Silent Action
1975-04-05
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but po
Blood and Roses
1960-09-14
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young wom
The Antichrist
1974-11-22
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal
The Black Corsair
1976-12-22
The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van G
Saadia
1953-12-01
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful o
Seagulls Fly Low
1978-11-01
An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
Lost Boundaries
1949-07-02
A light-skinned African-American family are "passing" in an all-white New England town. When the tru
The Net
1975-12-25
The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are bar
The Laws of War
1961-05-08
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting
Mayerling
1957-02-04
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunti
The Vintage
1957-05-08
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard
Oh... Rosalinda!!
1955-11-21
Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.
Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress
1977-10-31
A woman's inability to make a lasting commitment results in her having a string of affairs with marr
El Greco
1966-08-15
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the
Forbidden
1955-09-23
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village i
The Girl from the Red Cabaret
1973-12-22
Harvey hires Mary to seduce his rival Larry and help him gain his revenge. But Maria and Larry fall
Fraulein
1958-06-08
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
Gangbusters
1977-09-21
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen
Eye of the Widow
1991-10-17
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but on
Audrey
2020-11-30
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey H
Hi-Riders
1978-03-17
Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.
Seduced
1985-03-12
Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gr
Saint John Baptist De La Salle: Patron Saint of Teachers
2010-10-01
The inspiring story of a 17th century French priest who reluctantly became involved in educating poo
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993-08-11
Audrey Hepburn was one of the movies' best-loved stars, blessed with beauty, talent, an elegant soph
Charge of the Black Lancers
1962-08-30
Sergio of Tula goes to Dubno to free Princess Mascia, who is prisoner of Queen Jassa, but he is sedu
Yesterday's Tomorrow
1978-10-26
On a winter day in 1961, 31-year-old Anna Eichmayr crosses the Grosshesseloher bridge in Munich, she
A Time for Loving
1972-04-01
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
Vultures Over the City
1980-01-01
Merli, teamed with Mexican star Hugo Stiglitz as his photographer buddy, plays a journalist investig
The Fugitive
1947-11-11
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary govern
Catherine the Great
1996-04-28
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves
The Fifth Floor
1978-11-15
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assu
Deadly Game
1982-09-03
A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood
1978-11-02
Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood, also known as Fear and Loathing in Gonzovision, is a doc
The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980-05-05
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed d
Carola
1973-02-03
Norman Lloyd directed this televised production of Jean Renoir's World War II-era play. Taking place
The Brave Bulls
1951-04-18
A matador must recover his courage after being gored in the ring.
The Top of the Hill
1980-02-06
Michael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill
Fugitive Family
1980-10-01
To the world Brian Roberts looks like a successful businessman, with a lovely wife and two children
Outrage!
1986-01-01
After a technicality results in the release of a man being tried for the rape and murder of a young
One Shoe Makes it Murder
1982-11-06
Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves hi
Nightmare City
1980-12-11
In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood
A Tender Sunset
1984-03-24
Franz Bollenstein is a thug. One day, jealous of his stepdaughter Nicoletta's rich inheritance, he i