Actor-director Mel Ferrer, 90
Posted: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 11:54 pm
Mel Ferrer, the tall, darkly handsome star of such classic films as “Lili,” “War and Peace” and “The Sun Also Rises,” as well as producer and director of movies starring his then-wife, Audrey Hepburn, died Monday at age 90.
Ferrer died at a Santa Barbara, California, convalescent home, his son Mark Ferrer said Tuesday. He had been in failing health for the past six months and had recently moved to the home from his nearby ranch in Carpinteria, his son said.
Ferrer’s most impressive film role came in 1953 in “Lili.” He played a disabled carnival puppeteer with whom a French orphan (played by Leslie Caron) falls in love.
In later years, he turned more to directing and producing for movies and TV. …
Ferrer … produced one of Hepburn’s greatest film triumphs, 1967’s “Wait Until Dark,” a thriller in which she portrays a blind woman terrorized by drug dealers who break into her home. … Read full obituary
