José Ferrer

1912-1992

Biography: life and films

José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and film director whose birth name was José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón. He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico on 8th January 1912 and died in Coral Gables, Florida, USA on 26th January 1992, aged 80.

His best films as an actor include Michael Gordon's Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Edward Dmytryk's The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Gene Feldman's Ingrid (1984) and J. Lee Thompson's thriller The Evil That Men Do (1984), and whose best work as a film director include The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), The High Cost of Loving (1958) and Return to Peyton Place (1961).

José Ferrer appeared in 53 films, directed 7 films and scripted 1 film.

His most frequent genres include: drama (28 films), Biography (9), comedy (8), Thriller (6), Horror (6), history (4), comedy-drama (4), War (4), Documentary (4), romance (2) and comedy-romance (2).

Our average rating for José Ferrer over all films is: 2.8

Filmography

Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer

Joan of Arc (1948) [a]

Whirlpool (1949) [a]

Crisis (1950) [a]

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) [a]

Anything Can Happen (1952) [a]

Moulin Rouge (1952) [a]

Miss Sadie Thompson (1953) [a]

Deep in My Heart (1954) [a]

The Caine Mutiny (1954) [a]

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) [a,d]

The Shrike (1955) [a,d]

The Great Man (1956) [a,d,w]

I Accuse! (1958) [a,d]

The High Cost of Loving (1958) [a,d]

Forbid Them Not (1961) [a]

Return to Peyton Place (1961) [a,d]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [a]

State Fair (1962) [d]

Nine Hours to Rama (1963) [a]

Verspätung in Marienborn (1963) [a]

Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964) [a]

Ship of Fools (1965) [a]

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [a]

Cervantes (1967) [a]

Enter Laughing (1967) [a]

Españolear (1969) [a]

Don Rickles: Buy This Tape You Hockey Puck (1975) [a]

El clan de los inmorales (1975) [a]

Paco (1976) [a]

The Big Bus (1976) [a]

Crash! (1977) [a]

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) [a]

The Sentinel (1977) [a]

Who Has Seen the Wind (1977) [a]

Fedora (1978) [a]

The Swarm (1978) [a]

A Life of Sin (1979) [a]

Natural Enemies (1979) [a]

The Fifth Musketeer (1979) [a]

The Big Brawl (1980) [a]

Bloody Birthday (1981) [a]

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) [a]

Blood Tide (1982) [a]

The Being (1983) [a]

To Be or Not to Be (1983) [a]

Dune (1984) [a]

Ingrid (1984) [a]

The Evil That Men Do (1984) [a]

The Sun and the Moon (1987) [a]

Hired to Kill (1990) [a]

Old Explorers (1990) [a]

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [a]

L'Oeil de Vichy (1993) [a]



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