José Ferrer

ActorDirectorWriter Jan 8 (died age 80) Santurce, Puerto Rico 1946–2015 (69 year career)

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Biography

José Ferrer (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.

Known For

Film

Lawrence of Arabia

Turkish Bey

Film

Dune

Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV

Film

The Caine Mutiny

Lt. Barney Greenwald

Film

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

Leopold

Film

To Be or Not to Be

Prof. Siletski

Film

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Herod Antipas

Film

Fedora

Doctor Vando

Film

The Little Drummer Boy

Ben Haramed (voice)

Filmography

Acting (121)

Movies (97)

3-D Rarities

2015

as Alfred Davidson (archive footage)

6.0

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

as Self (archive footage)

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

1993

as Self (archive footage)

The Perfect Tribute

1991

as Edward Everett

6.0

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

as Self

7.7

Old Explorers

1990

as Warner Watney

Hired to Kill

as Rallis

Mother's Day

as Judge Leatham

Strange Interlude

as Professor Leeds

The Sun and the Moon

Young Harry Houdini

as Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi

6.0

Blood & Orchids

1986

as Walter Bergman

6.5

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

1985

as Narrator (voice)

Covenant

as Victor Noble

Seduced

as James Killian

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

as Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg

4.5

Dune

1984

as Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV

6.2

The Evil That Men Do

1984

as Dr. Hector Lomelin

Samson and Delilah

as The High Priest

Raíces eternas

as English Narrator

The Wind in the Willows

1983

as Badger (voice)

6.0

Blood Feud

1983

as Edward Bennett Williams

To Be or Not to Be

as Prof. Siletski

The Being

as Mayor Gordon Lane

The Horror of It All

as Self / Narrator

This Girl for Hire

as Harrison Wooly

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

as Leopold

Night of 100 Stars

as Self

Blood Tide

as Nereus

And They're Off

as Martin Craig

Rodin: The Gates of Hell

1982

as Self - Rodin(voice)

Bloody Birthday

1981

as Doctor

5.9

Evita Peron

1981

as Agustin Magaldi

Berlin Tunnel 21

as Martin Komansky

The Big Brawl

as Dominici

Pleasure Palace

as 'Pokey'

Gideon's Trumpet

as Abe Fortas

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

as Jeff Briggs

Natural Enemies

as Harry Rosenthal

UFOs: It Has Begun

The Fifth Musketeer

as Athos

Life of Sin

The Amazing Captain Nemo

as Captain Nemo

The Swarm

as Dr. Andrews

Fedora

as Doctor Vando

Fame

as Francesco

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977

as Lionel McCoy

4.9

The Sentinel

1977

as Priest of the Brotherhood

Dracula's Dog

as Inspector Branco

Exo-Man

as Kermit Haas

Simple Gifts

as Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)

Who Has Seen the Wind

1977

as The Ben

6.8

Paco

1976

as Fermin Flores

Voyage of the Damned

as Manuel Benitez

The Big Bus

as Ironman

Crash!

as Marc Denne

Truman at Potsdam

as Josef Stalin

The Missing Are Deadly

1975

5.0

Medical Story

1975

as Dr. William Knowland

Rickles

1975

Forever Young, Forever Free

as Father Alberto

The Art of Crime

as Beckwith Sloan

Order to Kill

as Inspector Reed

Cyrano

as Cyrano de Bergerac (voice)

9.0

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

as Jake Weinhaus

7.4

Banyon

1971

as Lee Jennings

Crosscurrent

1971

as Dr. Charles Bedford

Gideon

1971

as Angel of the Lord

The Aquarians

1970

as Dr. Alfred Vreeland

6.0

The Little Drummer Boy

1968

as Ben Haramed (voice)

6.6

A Case of Libel

1968

as Boyd Bendix

Enter Laughing

1967

as Harrison B. Marlowe

3.8

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

as Hassan Bey

Kismet

as Hajj

The Greatest Story Ever Told

as Herod Antipas

Ship of Fools

as Rieber

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

1964

as Cyrano de Bergerac

5.8

Nine Hours to Rama

1963

as Superintendent Das

6.1

Stop Train 349

1963

as Cowan the Reporter

Lawrence of Arabia

as Turkish Bey

I Accuse!

as Captain Alfred Dreyfus

6.1

The High Cost of Loving

as Jim Fry

Four Girls in Town

as Director

The Great Man

as Joe Harris

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Major Stringer

The Shrike

as Jim Downs

The Caine Mutiny

as Lt. Barney Greenwald

Deep in My Heart

as Sigmund Romberg

Miss Sadie Thompson

as Alfred Davidson

Moulin Rouge

as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

6.7

Anything Can Happen

1952

as Giorgi Papashvily

Whirlpool

1950

as David Korvo

6.5

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

as Cyrano de Bergerac

Crisis

as Raoul Farrago

The Secret Fury

as José (uncredited)

Joan of Arc

as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France

6.1

Bolivia

1946

as Narrator

Television (24)

Matlock

as Nicholas Baron

Blood & Orchids

as Walter Bergman

Murder, She Wrote

as Cagliostro

George Washington

as Governor Dinwiddie

7.4

Newhart

1982

as Arthur Vanderkellen

Peter and Paul

as Gamaliel

Magnum, P.I.

as Robert Caine

The Dream Merchants

as George Pappas

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Carlos

6.7

The French Atlantic Affair

1979

as Pres. Aristide Brouchard

7.0

The Love Boat

1977

as Deke Donner

6.3

The Rhinemann Exchange

as Erich Rhinemann

Medical Story

Kojak

as Jake Weinhaus

Columbo

as Marshall Cahill

The Danny Kaye Show

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

The Bell Telephone Hour

as Self

The Lux Show

as Self

Tony Awards

as Self - Presenter / Performer

5.9

The Rosemary Clooney Show

1956

as Self

Producers' Showcase

1954

6.5

What's My Line?

1950

as Self - Mystery Guest

6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

1948

as Self

6.8

Crew (8)

Movies (8)

State Fair

1962

Director

4.7

Return to Peyton Place

Director

I Accuse!

Director

The High Cost of Loving

Director

The Great Man

Director

The Great Man

Screenplay

The Cockleshell Heroes

Director

The Shrike

Director