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Actor Ferrer passes away
Actor and filmmaker Mel Ferrer, who was once married to Audrey Hepburn, has died in California at age 90, a family spokesman said on Tuesday. “Mel Ferrer passed away yesterday morning at the family ranch in Carpinteria,” in California’s Santa Barbara region 150km north of Los Angeles, family spokesman Mike Mena said. Born in 1917 in New Jersey of a Cuban father and a US mother, Ferrer made his debut on Broadway in 1938, after studying at Princeton University. He also edited a Vermont newspaper, wrote a children’s book and rose to become a producer and director in radio and television before his acting debut on screen in Lost Boundaries in 1949. After serving as an assistant to director John Ford on the film The Fugitive, he directed several movies, including Green Mansions in 1959 with Anthony Perkins and Audrey Hepburn, whom he wed in 1954, his fourth of five wives. He also produced the hit Wait Until Dark in 1967, which starred Hepburn. His marriage with Hepburn ended the next year. They had one child, Sean, born in 1960.
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