58 Facts About Jose Ferrer

Jose Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintron, known as Jose Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, film director and theatre director.

Jose Ferrer first 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.

Jose Ferrer reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award, making him the first Puerto Rican-born actor and the first Hispanic actor to win an Oscar.

Jose Ferrer 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.

Jose Ferrer was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Maria Providencia Cintron, who was from the small coastal town of Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, and Rafael Jose Ferrer, an attorney and writer from San Juan.

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Jose Ferrer studied at the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey.

In 1933, Jose Ferrer completed his bachelor's degree in architecture at Princeton University, where he wrote his senior thesis on "French Naturalism and Pardo Bazan".

In 1935, Jose Ferrer was the stage manager at the Suffern Country Playhouse, operated by Joshua Logan, whom Jose Ferrer had known at Princeton.

Jose Ferrer made his Broadway debut in 1935 in A Slight Case of Murder which ran 69 performances.

Jose Ferrer followed it with Key Largo with Paul Muni and directed by Guthrie McClintic, which went for 105 shows and was later turned into a film.

Jose Ferrer had a huge personal success in the title role of Charley's Aunt, partly in drag, under the direction of Joshua Logan.

Jose Ferrer made his debut on Broadway as director with Vickie in which he starred.

Jose Ferrer played Iago in Margaret Webster's Broadway production of Othello, which starred Paul Robeson in the title role, Webster as Emilia, and Ferrer's wife, Uta Hagen, as Desdemona.

Jose Ferrer produced and directed, but did not appear in, Strange Fruit, starring Mel Jose Ferrer .

Jose Ferrer may be best remembered for his performance in the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac, which he first played on Broadway in 1946.

Jose Ferrer feared that the production would be a failure in rehearsals, due to the open dislike for the play by director Mel Jose Ferrer, so he called in Joshua Logan to serve as "play doctor" for the production.

Logan wrote that he simply had to eliminate pieces of business which director Jose Ferrer had inserted in his staging; they presumably were intended to sabotage the more sentimental elements of the play that the director considered to be corny and in bad taste.

Jose Ferrer directed, but did not appear in, As We Forgive Our Debtors, which ran 5 performances.

Jose Ferrer made his film debut in the Technicolor epic Joan of Arc as the weak-willed Dauphin opposite Ingrid Bergman as Joan.

Jose Ferrer's performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Jose Ferrer had another Broadway hit with The Silver Whistle which ran for 219 performances.

Jose Ferrer returned to Hollywood to appear in Otto Preminger's Whirlpool, supporting Gene Tierney, and Richard Brooks' Crisis, opposite Cary Grant.

Jose Ferrer then played the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, directed by Michael Gordon and produced by Stanley Kramer.

Jose Ferrer donated the Oscar to the University of Puerto Rico, and it was stolen in 2000.

Jose Ferrer returned to Broadway for a revival of Twentieth Century which he directed and starred in, opposite Gloria Swanson; it went for 233 performances.

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Jose Ferrer returned to cinema screens in the comedy Anything Can Happen, directed by George Seaton, where Jose Ferrer played an immigrant.

Back on Broadway, Jose Ferrer directed and starred in The Shrike, which ran for 161 performances.

Jose Ferrer had another cinema hit with Miss Sadie Thompson starring Rita Hayworth.

Jose Ferrer briefly revived some of his shows at the City Centre in 1953: Cyrano, The Shrike, Richard III, Charley's Aunt.

Jose Ferrer returned to films with The Caine Mutiny for Kramer, co-starring with Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson, playing defense lawyer Barney Greenwald; the film was a huge hit.

Also popular was Deep in My Heart where Jose Ferrer played Sigmund Romberg, and which made a profit of over $1 million.

Jose Ferrer then performed Cyrano in an episode of Producer's Showcase on television, directed by Mel Jose Ferrer and co-starring Claire Bloom.

Jose Ferrer co-wrote, directed and starred in the film The Great Man, at Universal.

Jose Ferrer directed and starred in Edwin Booth, playing the title role; it was not a success.

In 1958, Jose Ferrer narrated the children's album Tubby the Tuba, which was nominated for the Best Recording For Children at the 1st Annual Grammy Awards.

Around this time, Jose Ferrer appeared in television in episodes of General Electric Theater and The United States Steel Hour.

Jose Ferrer signed a contract with 20th Century Fox to direct films.

Jose Ferrer made Return to Peyton Place and State Fair, both of which were commercial disappointments.

Jose Ferrer had a key support role in the film Lawrence of Arabia which was a huge success.

Jose Ferrer returned to Broadway to star in Noel Coward's musical The Girl Who Came to Supper which ran for 112 performances.

Jose Ferrer narrated the first episode of the popular 1964 sitcom Bewitched, in mock documentary style.

Jose Ferrer went to Germany to make Stop Train 349 with Sean Flynn.

Jose Ferrer appeared in the 1964 French film Cyrano et d'Artagnan directed by Abel Gance.

Back in Hollywood, Jose Ferrer played Herod Antipas in The Greatest Story Ever Told and was in Ship of Fools for Stanley Kramer.

Jose Ferrer took over the role from Richard Kiley in 1966 and subsequently went on tour with it in the first national company of the show.

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Jose Ferrer starred in Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing and did a production of Kismet on TV.

Jose Ferrer went to Europe to do Cervantes and appeared in A Case of Libel for US TV.

Jose Ferrer appeared in the television films The Aquarians, Gideon and Crosscurrent and guest-starred on The Name of the Game and Banyon.

Jose Ferrer directed The Web and the Rock on stage in New York and appeared in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, Orson Welles Great Mysteries, and Columbo.

Jose Ferrer voiced a highly truncated cartoon version of Cyrano for an episode of The ABC Afterschool Special in 1974.

Jose Ferrer appeared in The Missing Are Deadly, Forever Young, Forever Free, Order to Assassinate, Medical Story, The Art of Crime, Truman at Potsdam, The Big Bus, Paco .

Jose Ferrer guest starred on Starsky and Hutch and Tales of the Unexpected.

Jose Ferrer was a replacement cast member in a production of David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre .

Jose Ferrer produced and starred in White Pelicans and directed Carmelina on stage but it only ran 17 performances.

Jose Ferrer guest-starred on Quincy, M E, Another World, Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Love Boat, Bridges to Cross, and Murder, She Wrote.

Jose Ferrer was in The Evil That Men Do, Samson and Delilah, and George Washington .

Jose Ferrer made his farewell to Cyrano by performing a short passage from the play for the 1986 Tony Awards telecast.

Jose Ferrer was cast in a Broadway play Conversations with My Father but withdrew due to poor health.