José Ferrer

José Ferrer

1912-01-08 Santurce, Puerto Rico 101 Credits

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.

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3-D Rarities

3-D Rarities

2015

as Alfred Davidson (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New Yor...

Bogart: The Untold Story

Bogart: The Untold Story

1997

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film clips, written material and interviews of friends a...

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years

1993

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Legendary showman Danny Kaye's greatest moments have been handpicked by Kaye's daughter, Dena, in this lighthearted compilation. Highlights ranging fr...

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

1991

as Self

7.7
Acting

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such me...

The Perfect Tribute

The Perfect Tribute

1991

as Edward Everett

6.0
Acting

A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit ...

Old Explorers

Old Explorers

1990

as Warner Watney

Acting

Two elderly friends trade stories of adventure with each other.

Hired to Kill

Hired to Kill

1990

as Rallis

4.7
Acting

A fashion photographer and seven models travel to a South American island fortress, ostensibly to do a fashion shoot. In reality, the photographer is ...

Mother's Day

Mother's Day

1989

as Judge Leatham

Acting

A young black man is arrested for a crime. Now the police and the D.A. are convinced that he is guilty, but his mother doesn't believe this and sets o...

Strange Interlude

Strange Interlude

1988

as Professor Leeds

5.0
Acting

Adaptation of an experimental play in nine acts by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude makes extensive use of a soliloquy technique,...

Young Harry Houdini

Young Harry Houdini

1987

as Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi

6.0
Acting

This biographical movie depicts the youth of the magician Harry Houdini (1874 - 1926). As a boy his name was Eric Weiss and his father wanted him to b...

The Sun and the Moon

1987

Acting

Her deepening affair with a separatist spurs a wealthy Manhattanite to return to the Bronx, where she grew up, and reevaluate her Puerto Rican cultura...

Blood & Orchids

Blood & Orchids

1986

as Walter Bergman

6.5
Acting

Hester Murdoch is found naked and nearly beaten to death by four young Hawaiian men on the beach and taken to the hospital. Some of the men didn't wan...

Covenant

Covenant

1985

as Victor Noble

3.0
Acting

A powerful family that controls the world's banks has made a deal with Satan to help the forces of evil take over the world. An underground group name...

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

1985

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Seduced

Seduced

1985

as James Killian

2.5
Acting

Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attor...

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

1985

as Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg

4.8
Acting

The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brillian...

Dune

Dune

1984

as Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV

6.2
Acting

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spi...

Samson and Delilah

Samson and Delilah

1984

as The High Priest

4.9
Acting

A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean stren...

The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do

1984

as Dr. Hector Lomelin

5.8
Acting

A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Mahe...

Raíces eternas

1984

as English Narrator

Acting

A journey through the boundaries that form the picture of Puerto Rican cultural identity. It includes recreations of the 1918 earthquake, the Spanish ...

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be

1983

as Prof. Siletski

6.7
Acting

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young...

The Being

The Being

1983

as Mayor Gordon Lane

4.9
Acting

Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up t...

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

1983

as Badger (voice)

6.0
Acting

The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.

Blood Feud

Blood Feud

1983

as Edward Bennett Williams

Acting

Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

The Horror of It All

The Horror of It All

1983

as Self / Narrator

8.0
Acting

A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

This Girl for Hire

This Girl for Hire

1983

as Harrison Wooly

3.6
Acting

In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the ...

Blood Tide

Blood Tide

1982

as Nereus

4.9
Acting

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

1982

as Leopold

6.5
Acting

A nutty inventor, his frustrated wife, a philosopher cousin, his much younger fiancée, a randy doctor, and a free-thinking nurse spend a summer weeken...

And They're Off

And They're Off

1982

as Martin Craig

Acting

A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.

Night of 100 Stars

Night of 100 Stars

1982

as Self

6.7
Acting

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...

Bloody Birthday

Bloody Birthday

1981

as Doctor

5.9
Acting

In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become ...

Berlin Tunnel 21

Berlin Tunnel 21

1981

as Martin Komansky

6.5
Acting

In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, inc...

Evita Peron

Evita Peron

1981

as Agustin Magaldi

Acting

Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and...

Pleasure Palace

Pleasure Palace

1980

as 'Pokey'

6.0
Acting

Story of a professional gambler, connoisseur, gourmet and sportsman who sets out to help a Las Vegas hotel-casino owner from losing his controlling in...

The Big Brawl

The Big Brawl

1980

as Dominici

5.9
Acting

A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Gideon's Trumpet

Gideon's Trumpet

1980

as Abe Fortas

6.2
Acting

True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision whic...

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

1980

as Jeff Briggs

2.0
Acting

William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach ...

Natural Enemies

Natural Enemies

1979

as Harry Rosenthal

6.2
Acting

Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a deci...

The Fifth Musketeer

The Fifth Musketeer

1979

as Athos

5.0
Acting

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king ...

UFOs: It Has Begun

1979

7.0
Acting

A documentary exploring the existence of UFOs and extra-terrestrial beings. Hosted by the LEGENDARY Rod Serling. This was considered his "coming out t...

Life of Sin

Life of Sin

1979

5.0
Acting

The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel...

The Swarm

The Swarm

1978

as Dr. Andrews

4.9
Acting

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have...

Fedora

Fedora

1978

as Doctor Vando

6.7
Acting

An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

The Amazing Captain Nemo

The Amazing Captain Nemo

1978

as Captain Nemo

5.0
Acting

Captain Nemo is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist.

Fame

Fame

1978

as Francesco

Acting

A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film....

Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts

1977

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

Acting

A collection of animated Christmas shorts: An original Maurice Sendak piece about a boy with nothing to give for Christmas -- An excerpt from the earl...

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

1977

as Lionel McCoy

5.0
Acting

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign ...

Exo-Man

Exo-Man

1977

as Kermit Haas

4.3
Acting

A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.

Dracula's Dog

Dracula's Dog

1977

as Inspector Branco

4.6
Acting

A Romanian vampire-hunter tracks Dracula's servant to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line.

Who Has Seen the Wind

Who Has Seen the Wind

1977

as The Ben

7.2
Acting

The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Bri...

The Sentinel

The Sentinel

1977

as Priest of the Brotherhood

6.1
Acting

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a B...

Crash!

Crash!

1976

as Marc Denne

5.1
Acting

After a professor is crippled in a car accident, he blames his wife for the ordeal and attempts to have her killed using the same means. Now hospitali...

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned

1976

as Manuel Benitez

5.9
Acting

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

The Big Bus

The Big Bus

1976

as Ironman

5.2
Acting

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disaste...

Paco

Paco

1976

as Fermin Flores

Acting

Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big city. When he gets to the city, he discovers his u...

The Art of Crime

The Art of Crime

1975

as Beckwith Sloan

6.5
Acting

A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murde...

Rickles

Rickles

1975

Acting

Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.

Medical Story

Medical Story

1975

as Dr. William Knowland

Acting

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Order to Kill

Order to Kill

1975

as Inspector Reed

4.4
Acting

An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothin...

Forever Young, Forever Free

Forever Young, Forever Free

1975

as Father Alberto

8.3
Acting

"e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missiona...

The Missing Are Deadly

The Missing Are Deadly

1975

5.0
Acting

An emotionally disturbed teenager whose father is a research scientist takes a rat from his father's laboratory that is infected with an incurable vir...

Cyrano

Cyrano

1974

as Cyrano de Bergerac (voice)

9.0
Acting

Long-nosed Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves in this animated version of Edmond Rostand's play.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

as Jake Weinhaus

6.9
Acting

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

Crosscurrent

Crosscurrent

1971

as Dr. Charles Bedford

Acting

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shippin...

Gideon

Gideon

1971

as Angel of the Lord

Acting

The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.

Banyon

Banyon

1971

as Lee Jennings

Acting

Miles C. Banyon is a private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles. In this TV movie—which served as the pilot episode for the short-lived TV show—Banyon'...

The Aquarians

The Aquarians

1970

as Dr. Alfred Vreeland

6.0
Acting

A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ...

The Little Drummer Boy

The Little Drummer Boy

1968

as Ben Haramed (voice)

6.6
Acting

After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby J...

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

1967

as Hassan Bey

7.5
Acting

This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man h...

Kismet

Kismet

1967

as Hajj

7.0
Acting

The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical cu...

Enter Laughing

Enter Laughing

1967

as Harrison B. Marlowe

4.0
Acting

A machinist's apprentice in Depression-era New York, David dreams of becoming the new Ronald Colman. Defying the wishes of his parents, David lands a ...

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

1965

as Rieber

6.5
Acting

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr....

The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

as Herod Antipas

6.4
Acting

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M...

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

Cyrano and d'Artagnan

1964

as Cyrano de Bergerac

5.8
Acting

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

Stop Train 349

Stop Train 349

1963

as Cowan the Reporter

6.5
Acting

Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.

Nine Hours to Rama

Nine Hours to Rama

1963

as Superintendent Das

6.1
Acting

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independenc...

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

as Turkish Bey

8.0
Acting

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Law...

State Fair

State Fair

1962

Director

4.9
Directing

Texan farmers the Frake family head for the Texas State Fair in Dallas. The parents are focused on winning the competitions for livestock and cooking....

Return to Peyton Place

Return to Peyton Place

1961

Director

6.7
Directing

Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial ...

The High Cost of Loving

The High Cost of Loving

1958

as Jim Fry

5.7
Acting

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn'...

The High Cost of Loving

The High Cost of Loving

1958

Director

5.7
Directing

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn'...

I Accuse!

I Accuse!

1958

as Captain Alfred Dreyfus

6.1
Acting

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...

I Accuse!

I Accuse!

1958

Director

6.1
Directing

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...

Four Girls in Town

Four Girls in Town

1957

as Director

1.0
Acting

Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by th...

The Great Man

The Great Man

1956

as Joe Harris

5.2
Acting

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

The Great Man

The Great Man

1956

Director, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

as Major Stringer

6.0
Acting

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

Director

6.0
Directing

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Shrike

The Shrike

1955

as Jim Downs

6.0
Acting

Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.

The Shrike

The Shrike

1955

Director

6.0
Directing

Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.

Deep in My Heart

Deep in My Heart

1954

as Sigmund Romberg

6.8
Acting

Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

1954

as Lt. Barney Greenwald

7.2
Acting

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial ...

Miss Sadie Thompson

Miss Sadie Thompson

1953

as Alfred Davidson

5.2
Acting

Sadie Thompson winds up stranded on an island and while her boat is being quarantined, she manages to stir up the blood of every marine on the base.

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

1952

as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

6.7
Acting

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women wh...

Anything Can Happen

Anything Can Happen

1952

as Giorgi Papashvily

Acting

A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950

as Cyrano de Bergerac

6.8
Acting

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano he...

Crisis

Crisis

1950

as Raoul Farrago

6.6
Acting

An American doctor gets caught in the middle of a revolution when he's forced to operate on a South American dictator.

The Secret Fury

The Secret Fury

1950

as José (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen d...

Whirlpool

Whirlpool

1950

as David Korvo

6.5
Acting

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients...

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

1948

as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France

6.1
Acting

In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...

Bolivia

1946

as Narrator

Acting

About the country of Bolivia.