Mel Ferrer
Acting
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
Born: August 25, 1917
Place of Birth: Elberon, New Jersey, USA
Known For
Columbo
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
Peter the Great
Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by Robert K. Massie. It won three Primetime Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Miniseries.
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
She is said to be cold, secretive and mysterious. She has the reputation of not letting anything of her intimate thoughts, her private life, her joys as well as her torments show through. She managed to protect her family, her loves, her choices from the curiosity of magazines and her public. A tour de force for a sixty year long career with more than one hundred and thirty films shot with the greatest filmmakers in the world. However, the raw material for a very personal account of Catherine Deneuve exists: it can be found in the interviews given by the actress from her beginnings until today. They allow us to discover another Catherine Deneuve.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Murder, She Wrote
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Wait Until Dark
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
El señor de La Salle
Biography of San Juan Bautista de la Salle , where the effort and hardships that this canon of the nobility had to overcome in order to offer universal and free education to children, his main devotion, in the time of Louis XIV, are appreciated.
Christine Cromwell
Talented female attorney, Christine Cromwell, searches for justice, and the truth, when her friends and clients are accused of murder.
Audrey
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Self - Actor / 1st Husband (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Patriarch
as Self
as CIA Chief Frankenheimer
as Judge Michael Lengel
as Frederick
as Arthur Orloff
as Eric Brahm
as Miles Austin
as George Matthews
as Franz Bollenstein
as Carl Charnock
as Stephan Mathiesen
as Anthony Palandrini
as Garrett Hardy
as Cornelius A. Woaegen, president of GTI
as Phillip Erickson
as David Mendelssohn
as Sheriff
as General Murchison
as Anthony Durano
as Dr. Sanford
as Professor Carter
as Andreas Heggener
as Joshua
as Dr. Walker
as Radcliffe (US version)
as Vera Husband
as Dr. Sidney Coleman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Roberto Micheli
as Colonel Stone
as King Eurich
as Dr. Paolo Brogli
as Dr. Robert Cook
as Harrison Page
as Sheriff
as Nicholas Skinner
as Professor Henry Douglas
as David
as Peseti
as Analog
as Hale Burton
as Appolonius
as Harvey Wood
as Van Gould
as Armando Della Morra
as Aurelio Morelli
as Fritz Gerlich
as Police superintendent
as District Attorney Mannino
as Mel Fields
as Massimo Oderisi
as Dalton Harvey
as Dr. Ross
as Gen. Franz von Clodius
as John Rickman
as Doctor Harrison
as Jerry Parks
as Father Neill
as Emil Radick
as French-Canadian Radio Speaker (voice) (uncredited)
as El Greco (Domenico Teotocopulo)
as Rudy DeMeyer
as Cleander
as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (uncredited)
as Juan Bautista de La Salle
as Maj. Gen. Robert Haines
as Philip Allan
as Andrea Di Tula
as Marco
as Stephen Orlac
as Georges Gauthier
as Leopoldo De Karnstein
as Benson Thacker
as Self
as Maj. Foster MacLain
as Robert Cohn
as Giancarlo Barandero
as Crown Prince Rudolph
as Le comte Henri de Chevincourt
as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
as Capt. Alfred Westerman
as Don Paolo Salinas
as Arthur
as Henrik
as Self
as Paul Berthalet
as Noel, Marquis de Maynes
as Frenchy Fairmont
as Luís Bello
as Gabriel 'Gobby' Broome
as Self - Panelist
as Dr. Scott Mason Carter
as Father Serra (uncredited)