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Mel Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor, film director and film producer. ==Early life== Ferrer was born Melchor Gastón Ferrer〔Some sources spell his first name as MELCHIOR but this is incorrect based on Ferrer's records at Princeton University. Also he was named for his paternal grandfather, Melchor Ferrer. And the name MELCHOR G. FERRER was used on the cover of ''Tito's Hats'', a children's book that Ferrer wrote in 1940.〕 in the Elberon section of Long Branch, New Jersey, of Cuban and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (1857–1920), was born in Cuba, of Spanish ancestry, and was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City.〔"Dr. Jose M. Ferrer", Obituaries, The New York Times, 24 February 1920〕 His American mother, the former Mary Matilda Irene O'Donohue (1878–1967),〔"Weddings: Ferrer-O'Donohue", ''The New York Times'', October 19, 1910〕 was a daughter of coffee broker Joseph J. O'Donohue, New York's City Commissioner of Parks, a founder of the Coffee Exchange, and a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry. An ardent opponent of Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws.〔"Mrs. J.M. Ferrer, Civic Leader, 89", ''The New York Times'', February 21, 1967.〕 Ferrer had three siblings. His elder sister was Dr. M. Irené Ferrer, a cardiologist and educator, who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram.〔(Changing the Face of Medicine - Dr. M. Irené Ferrer )〕 She died in 2004 in Manhattan, New York at age 89 due to pneumonia and congestion heart failure. His brother, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer, born 1912, was a surgeon; he died in 1982 at age 70 after abdominal surgery complication. His other sister, Teresa (Terry) Ferrer, was the religion editor of ''The New York Herald Tribune'' and education editor of ''Newsweek''.〔〔"Terry Ferrer, 82, Education Editor", ''The New York Times'', April 1, 2002〕 The family is not related to actors José or Miguel Ferrer. His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were prominent Roman Catholics. Mel Ferrer's aunt, Marie Louise O'Donohue (Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue, Jr.) was named a papal countess,〔"Joseph O'Donohue, Real Estate Man, Dead", ''The New York Times'', October 31, 1937〕 and his mother's sister, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in American Catholic charities and welfare organizations, was granted permission by Pope Pius XI to install a private chapel in her New York City apartment.〔"Teresa O'Donohue, Charities Worker", ''The New York Times'', August 18, 1937〕 Ferrer was privately educated at the Bovée School in New York (one of his classmates was the future author Louis Auchincloss) and Canterbury Prep School in Connecticut before attending Princeton University until his sophomore year, at which time he dropped out to devote more time to acting. He also worked as an editor of a small Vermont newspaper and wrote a children's book, ''Tito's Hats'' (Garden City Publishing, 1940).〔The book's illustrations were by Jean Charlot.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mel Ferrer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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