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  The Macabre Movies Of Mel Ferrer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ferrer poignantly portrays Harvey Wood, the dying father of a missing girl, whose investigation into her unexplained disappearance takes him to a swampview motel and a grisly fate at the hands of insane motelkeeper Judd (Neville Brand).
Ferrer and co-stars Barbara Bach and Claudio Cassinelli are at the mercy of a huge man-eating crocodile--the incarnation of a native god angered by the tourists’ intrusion on its sacred nesting grounds.
Mel Ferrer may not be known for his roles in horror and sci-fi films, but he certainly appeared in a goodly (ghouly?) number of them.
www.horror-wood.com /ferrer.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Reelwriter.net on Audrey Hepburn
Ferrer: Once I got into the movie business in my early 20's I realized that she was a huge star.
Ferrer: I guess that was her plan for us, not being in a Hollywood state of mind.
Ferrer: She had planned at the end of her life to write something for us, the kids.
www.reelwriter.net /2004/hepburn.html   (1768 words)

  
 CNN.com - Transcripts
FERRER: Because I fell in love with the idea of films early on, not because I was in the milieu, but moreso because of the potential of having a couple of hundred people in a dark room, looking at a screen.
FERRER: I think that what they said was they were going to try and they wanted to keep her sort of up, but the next day in "The Enquirer," it said that she was going to die.
FERRER: The first thing we did was create a memorial fund at UNICEF dedicated to education and four and then subsequently five of the countries she felt were so devoid of any infrastructure that the only way to change the course of the history of their history would be through education.
transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0312/24/lkl.00.html   (4993 words)

  
 Reelwriter.net - Ferrer on Racehoss
As the son of Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, director Sean Hepburn Ferrer inherited a rich legacy.
Ferrer respects the dignity of the man. He allows the performance to gradually build like a great musical score.
Ferrer: I'm trying to create a limited theatrical release in the US art film houses, trying to tend to 10-15 markets that are meaningful.
www.reelwriter.net /2002/ferrer.html   (1351 words)

  
 The Biography Channel - Mel Ferrer Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mel Ferrer dropped out of Princeton University to become an actor, supporting himself by working as a newspaper editor and children’s author.
Ferrer finally made his screen acting debut in the well-meaning 'Lost Boundaries' in 1949, playing a New England doctor of African descent posing as Caucasian.
Ferrer produced the lavish 1966 Italian-French production of 'El Greco' and that year also saw the US release of 'Cabriola/Every Day Is a Holiday', which Ferrer co-wrote and directed.
www.thebiographychannel.co.uk /biography_home/716:0/Mel_Ferrer.htm   (386 words)

  
 Mel Ferrer
Paris 1956.Jean Renoir produced ELENA ET LES HOMMES with Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, he is seen her directing a scene in a Paris studio with Jean Marais, Ingrid Bergman and Mel Ferrer.
Paris 1956.Jean Renoir produced ELENA ET LES HOMMES with Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, he is seen her directing a young member of the cast in the Paris studios.
Paris 1956.Jean Renoir produced ELENA ET LES HOMMES with Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, he is seen her directing a Ingrid Bergman during a balcony scene in a Paris studio.
www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0763693.html   (315 words)

  
 Louis de Rochemont -- The Making of Lost Boundaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mel Ferrer, today a veteran of 75 films, made his first film appearance as a light-skinned fl doctor.
Mel Ferrer's lead role in "Lost Boundaries" is the earliest of his 73 films listed on the Internet Movie Database.
Ferrer also wrote, produced and directed films and is remembered for his short marriage to actress Audrey Hepburn.
www.seacoastnh.com /louis/lostfilm.html   (1760 words)

  
 Mel Ferrer
Mel Ferrer was a handsome, vaguely ethnic-looking actor.
Ferrer would probably want to be remembered for his performance as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in the 1956 adaptation of War and Peace, with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda.
Ferrer's sister, M. Irené Ferrer, was a famous cardiologist who helped pioneer open-heart surgery.
www.nndb.com /people/485/000043356   (459 words)

  
 In Step With....Miguel Ferrer - PARADE 1-26-03
Ferrer says he was very impressed with The Shrike, a 1955 movie that José starred in and directed.
Ferrer, who lives with his wife and two kids in Hollywood, likes his role in Crossing as the boss of medical examiner Jordan Cavanaugh, and he seriously loves the acress who portrays Jordan, Jill Hennessy, "Jill is the most low-maintenance and beautiful woman ever, " said Ferrer, "except for my wife."
Ferrer grew up mostly in New York (his dad was on Broadway) and lived with both parents until they split when he was 7.
www.rosemaryclooney.com /miguel   (746 words)

  
 Lili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer's rendition of "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" was released as a record, and became a minor hit, reaching a respectable #30 on 1953's charts.
Audrey Hepburn, according to biographer Alexander Walker, was fascinated by the movie, and identified with the heroine; the movie was a direct cause of her becoming attracted to Mel Ferrer.
The puppeteer, played by Mel Ferrer, is gruff and emotionally cold.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lili   (1741 words)

  
 Audrey's Life --The Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
September 24, 1954 - Audrey and Mel Ferrer marry in a civil ceremony.
She miscarries shortly before set was to co-star with Mel in War and Peace.
Hepburn's funeral takes place, in which one of her dearest friends, Hubert de Givenchy, and ex-husband Mel Ferrer are pallbearers.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring02/Talbot/TheTimeline.htm   (660 words)

  
 Biography for Mel Ferrer (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Actor/director/producer Mel Ferrer was born Melchor Gaston Ferrer on August 25, 1917, in Elberon, New Jersey.
He made a modest debut as a director at Columbia with the low-budget The Girl of the Limberlost (1945), then returned to acting on Broadway to star in Lillian Smith's "Strange Fruit." He was John Ford's assistant on The Fugitive (1947).
Ten years earlier, Ferrer made his big-screen acting debut in Lost Boundaries (1949, as a fl man passing for white), and he re- turned to work in front of the cameras throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0002072/bio   (638 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Mel Ferrer : Biography
Mel Ferrer dropped out of Princeton University in his sophomore year to become an actor in summer stock; meanwhile he worked as an editor for a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book.
Having not acted in any films, Ferrer directed his first movie, The Girl of the Limberlost, in 1945; the year in which he also returned to Broadway.
Ferrer went on to appear in numerous movies, where he was usually cast as a sensitive, quiet, somewhat stiff leading man; his best-known role was as the lame puppeteer in Lili (1953).
www.vh1.com /movies/person/20489/bio.jhtml   (266 words)

  
 Peggy Lee article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was Ferrer who staged Peggy’s appearance at Cairo’s some time back, emphasizing dramatic as well as musical values, showmanship as well as songs.
Ferrer is inclined to take little credit for what appears to be a masterful stroke.
Mel, who used to produce Hildegarde’s radio program and stage some of her other appearances, recalled how lighting helped the Milwaukee chanteuse.
www.peggylee.com /library/530128.html   (438 words)

  
 La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego
One of Ferrer's fondest memories is of Groucho Marx, whom they had lured with the promise of a play he hoped to develop.
Sometimes I -- and I suspect at times Mel and Dorothy -- would have to drive back at 1 in the morning and be on a film set at 6.
In 1953 Mel married Audrey Hepburn and for the next few years lived in Europe, so that was the end of his direct association with the summer theater.
www.lifeofanactor.com /lajolla.htm   (1649 words)

  
 Lili   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lili Daurier, Leslie Caron; Paul Berthalet, Mel Ferrer; Marc, Jean Pierre Aumont; Rosalie, Zsa Zsa Gabor; Jacquot, Kurt Kasznar; Peach Lips, Amanda Blake; Proprietor, Alex Gerry.
Lili is grief-stricken until a lame pupeteer (Mel Ferrer) uses his little friends to woo her from her sorrow.
Mel Ferrer smiles his narcissistic, masochistic smiles as the crippled puppeteer.
members.aol.com /Movieboy5/lili.html   (277 words)

  
 Movie Celebrities - Mel Ferrer: MAIN - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Mel Ferrer dropped out of Princeton University in his sophomore year to become an actor in summer stock; meanwhile he worked as an editor for a...
Mel Ferrer was educated at private schools before attending Princeton...
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/main.adp?sid=23232   (158 words)

  
 The Broadway Theatre Archive Catalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With: Leslie Caron Mel Ferrer Carmen Zapata Anthony Zerbe Albert Paulsen
The drama takes place backstage in a theatre where a play is in progress and the German Gestapo is looking for a French underground leader who they know is hiding there.
Mel Ferrer portrays the head of the German occupying forces who renews an unexpected liaison with Leslie Caron, a glamorous star of boulevard farces.
www.broadwayarchive.com /catalog_detail.asp?id=90050146   (230 words)

  
 The World, The Flesh and The Devil (www.emptyworld.info)
Belafonte and Stevens are only survivors of worldwide nuclear accident; their uneasy relationship is jarred by arrival of Ferrer.
Written and directed by Ranald MacDougall, it was based very loosely on M P Shiel's 1901 novel The Purple Cloud and concerns three survivors of an atomic war who meet up in an empty New York (the city appears remarkably undamaged).
Conflict begins when the woman (Inger Stevens), who is white, chooses the fl man (Harry Belafonte) instead of the white racist (Mel Ferrer).
www.emptyworld.info /film_the_world_the_flesh_and_the_devil.html   (391 words)

  
 Brannigan Review (1975)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chicago cop Jim Brannigan (John Wayne) is on the trail of big time gangster Ben Larkin (John Vernon), when he is told by his superiors that he must take the next flight to London, because Larkin is in hiding there and Britain has agreed to extradite him.
The head of the Larkin investigation in Britain is Sir Charles Swann (Richard Attenborough - I suppose Inspector Charles Swann didn't sound English enough?) and they, of course, do things differently on their side of the Atlantic, including letting Larkin move about as he pleases, keeping him under observation all the while.
Larkin is accompanied by his dodgy lawyer Fields (Mel Ferrer), who has set up an escape route via Ireland to South America, where Larkin can do all the larkin' about he wants.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=775   (615 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Lili -- Charles Walters - VHS
Charles Walters, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Embittered, crippled puppeteer Mel Ferrer treats Lili with contempt; only by speaking through his puppets is Ferrer able to express his genuine love for the girl.
Before this happens, however, Caron must overcome her crush on magician Jean-Pierre Aumont, who is married to the contentious Zsa Zsa Gabor.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=5331CM44DB&EAN=27616031037   (205 words)

  
 Nightmare City Review (1980)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hugo Stiglitz, Mel Ferrer, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo
Major Holmes is in his late fifties/early sixties with some sexpot sculptor for a bird; General Merchinson (Mel Ferrer) on the other hand is slightly more conservative, looking horribly like the Commisioner from the Police Academy series (In fact I'm pretty damn sure it is him.
They examine the body of a zombie and, after much deliberation, decide that the best way to kill these rotting revellers is to, "Aim for the brain." They also reveal that these zombies aren't flesh-eaters, just blood-suckers which means that the gore quoitient is severely diminished.
www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=404&aff=16   (1653 words)

  
 Movie Info for Charge of the Black Lancers on MSN Movies
Mel Ferrer buckles his swash for the Italian actioner Charge of the Black Lancers.
Cast as a sword-wielding patriot, Ferrer challenges his enemies individually and collectively at every opportunity.
Charge of the Black Lancers was one of several European productions in which Ferrer starred in the early 1960s, while wife Audrey Hepburn held down the fort, as it were, in Hollywood.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=75464   (133 words)

  
 Film Score Monthly.COM: Online Store
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo (Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer) 2:11
The film stars Leslie Caron as a homeless French orphan who joins a carnival and develops a unique relationship with an embittered puppeteer, Paul (Mel Ferrer), treating his puppets as living beings.
The interaction between Lili and the puppets, and between Lili and Paul, is a unique treasure in motion picture history.
www.screenarchives.com /fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=347   (427 words)

  
 Mel Ferrer
No relation to Jose Ferrer and Miguel Ferrer
The film ends with Mel and Arthur riding off into the distance, but the closing theme song/narration states that they were killed that same day.
(I haven't seen this movie myself.) (Note: Mel's scenes were added for the 1982 US release Screamers, and were not present in the original 1979 European release.) (
www.geocities.com /cinemorgue2/melferrer.html   (132 words)

  
 AmIAnnoying.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When he played Cyrano on stage, the production was directed by Mel Ferrer, who was no relation.
Ferrer did such a bad job directing Ferrer that Joshua Logan had to be brought in to redirect the production.
He was subpoenaed by the McCarthy hearings immediately after his nomination as a suspected communist, and he used the publicity to ballyhoo his patriotism.
www.amiannoying.com /2002/view.aspx?ID=4596   (234 words)

  
 Mel Ferrer (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Actor/director/producer Mel Ferrer was born Melchor Gaston Ferrer on August 25...
The Girl of the Limberlost (1945) (as Melchor G. Ferrer)
Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Mel Ferrer (I)
www.imdb.com /name/nm0002072   (418 words)

  
 Mel Ferrer Photos - Mel Ferrer News - Mel Ferrer Information
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Airing in the time slot following CBS' immensely popular Dallas, Falcon Crest sought to hold on to the soap opera addicts with yet another saga of the rich and greedy fighting for power and...
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 Gregory-Peck.com - Biography and Filmography
Overnight the versatile actor became a star, garnering four Academy Award nominations in five years.
Despite becoming a famous movie actor, Peck continued to devote himself to the theater, co-founding the prestigious La Jolla Playhouse in his hometown with fellow actors Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer.
Although the gifted Peck could play a wide range of characters, as Baseline's Encyclopedia of Film notes, it was "as an authority figure of quiet dignity and uncompromising singlemindedness" that audiences seemed to love Peck best--in such films, for example, as The Yearling, The Gunfighter, and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
www.gregory-peck.com /bio.htm   (904 words)

  
 Vipco horror films : Eaten Alive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
FROM THE DIRECTOR OF ROBERT KERMA, JANET AGREN and MEL FERRER
From renowned Italian director Umberto Lenzi comes a tale of cannibals at play In the Jungles of New Guinea, starring Robert Herman, Janet Agren and Mel Ferrer.
When a young woman's sister disappears, the only clue to her whereabouts is a glimpsed appearance in a bizarre film showing scenes of cannibalism, left behind by a hitman murdered on the streets of New York.
www.horrorvideo.com /movies/eaten_alive.asp   (169 words)

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