Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008), better known as Mel Ferrer, was an American actor, director, and producer of stage, film, and television of Cuban and Irish descent.
He initially cut his teeth in acting on Broadway stages before hitting it big during the waning years of The Golden Age of Hollywood with films such as Scaramouche, Lili and Knights of the Round Table.
He was famously the first husband of Audrey Hepburn, from 1954 to 1968, and the father of producer and author Sean Hepburn Ferrer. He participated in several of Audrey's films, such as starring in the 1956 adaptation of War and Peace by King Vidor, directing Green Mansions in 1959, making a cameo appearance in Charade and producing the 1967 film Wait Until Dark.
No relation to José Ferrer or the latter's son Miguel, who were of Puerto Rican descent.
His filmography includes
Film acting credits:
- Rancho Notorious (1952) as as Frenchy Fairmont
- Scaramouche (1952) as Marquis Noel de Maynes
- Lili (1953) as Paul Berthalet
- Knights of the Round Table (1953) as King Arthur Pendragon
- Elena And Her Men (1956) as Henri
- War and Peace (1956) as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
- The Sun Also Rises (1957) as Robert Cohn
- The Longest Day (1962) as Major General Robert Haines
- Charade (1963) as a man smoking at the nightclub
- Sex and the Single Girl (1964) as Dr. Rudy DeMeyer
- The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as Cleander
- Brannigan (1975) as Mel Fields
- Eaten Alive! (1976) as Harvey Wood
- The Visitor (1979) as Dr. Walker
- Lili Marleen (1981) as David Mendelsson
Television acting credits:
- Columbo (episode "Requiem for a Falling Star", 1973) as Jerry Parks
- Hawaii Five-O (2 episodes, 1977) as Emil Radick / Father Neill
- Wonder Woman (1977) as Fritz Gerlich
- Logan's Run (1977) as Analog
- The Love Boat (1985) as Jack Powers
Directing credits:
- The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
- Green Mansions (1959)
- Cabriola (1965)
