Mel Ferrer

Melchor Gastón Ferrer was an American actor and filmmaker. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche, Lili, and Knights of the Round Table. He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn, in War and Peace and produced her film Wait Until Dark. He also acted extensively in European films and appeared in several cult hits, including The Antichrist (1974), The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), The Black Corsair (1976), and Nightmare City (1980).

25 August 1917

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Adam Warren (baseball) • Albert Belle • Althea Gibson • Anatoly Kartashov (cosmonaut) • Damon Jones • Dave Tippett • Dorothea Tanning • Fatih Akin • Giridharilal Kedia • Hiram Mier • John Leverett the Younger • Kayo Dottley • Philipp Mißfelder • Rodney Ferguson • Stacey Farber • Steve Levy (politician) • Tom Hollander • Van Johnson • Velimir Jovanović • Virginia Euwer Wolff

Born in the same month (August 1917): Barbara Cooney • Caspar Weinberger • Denis Healey • Ebba Haslund • Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia • Isabel Sanford • Jack Kirby • Jack Lynch • John Fitch (racing driver) • John Lee Hooker • Leonid Hurwicz • Les Elgart • Matt Christopher • Oliver Crawford • Peanuts Lowrey • Robert Mitchum • Roque Cordero • Sid Gordon • Terry Sanford • Wah Chang • Óscar Romero