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José Ferrer
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American actor and director (1912–1992)
OverviewAI-generated
José Ferrer (1912–1992) was an actor whose professional career began in 1935. He is recognized in the Academy Award Best Actor collection and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection. His musical work has been tagged with "spanish" and "Classical" on Last.fm, where he accumulated 2,069 plays from 733 listeners.
Ferrer is also listed as an author with six works, including *Finanzas Personales*, *Francesca de Sainglerburg*, *Liderazgo de la Innovación y la Creatividad*, *Policy Space Index*, and *Tu Lado*. Crossref records five of his works. He is referenced by 861 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Crossref, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón , ( 1912-01-08 ) January 8, 1912, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Died
- January 26, 1992 (1992-01-26) (aged 80), Coral Gables, Florida , U.S.
- Resting place
- Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery , San Juan
- Education
- Princeton University (1933, B.Arch )
- Occupations
- Actor film director theatre director
- Years active
- 1935–1992
- Children
- 6, including Miguel Ferrer
- Relatives
- Debby Boone (daughter-in-law) Tessa Ferrer (granddaughter) George Clooney (nephew)
- Awards
- National Medal of Arts (1985)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vicente
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Santurce
- Place of death
- Coral Gables
- Occupation
- theatrical director
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Record label
- RCA Victor
- Image
- Jose Ferrer - 1952.jpg
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- notable role
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- date of birth
- 1912-01-08
- date of death
- 1992-01-26
- Commons category
- José Ferrer (actor)
- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Musical
- birth name
- José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón
- place of burial
- Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
- different from
- Mel Ferrer
- name in native language
- José Ferrer
- writing language
- English language
- ethnic group
- Puerto Ricans
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Encyclopedic overview
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him both the first Hispanic and the first Puerto Rican–born actor to win an Academy Award.
His other notable film roles include Charles VII in Joan of Arc (1948), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952), defense attorney Barney Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny (1954), Alfred Dreyfus in I Accuse! (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Siegfried Rieber in Ship of Fools (1965), and Emperor Shaddam IV in Dune (1984). Ferrer also maintained a prolific acting and directing career on Broadway, winning a second Best Actor Tony for The Shrike, and Best Director for The Shrike, The Fourposter, and Stalag 17, Additionally, Ferrer appeared numerous times in the works of Shakespeare, notably as Iago in Othello.
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