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
Complete Filmography

3-D Rarities
2015
as Alfred Davidson (archive footage)
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
1997
as Self (archive footage)
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
1993
as Self (archive footage)
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
1991
as Self
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
1991
as Edward Everett
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
1990
as Warner Watney
Two elderly friends trade stories of adventure with each other.

Hired to Kill
1990
as Rallis
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
1989
as Judge Leatham
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
1988
as Professor Leeds
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
1987
as Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi
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
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
1986
as Walter Bergman
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
1985
as Victor Noble
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
1985
as Narrator (voice)
Documentary about the life of explorer Jacques Cousteau.

Seduced
1985
as James Killian
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
1985
as Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg
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
1984
as Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV
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
1984
as The High Priest
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
1984
as Dr. Hector Lomelin
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
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
1983
as Prof. Siletski
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
1983
as Mayor Gordon Lane
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
1983
as Badger (voice)
The Irresponsible Toad is in a mess and needs help from his friends try and save Toad Hall.

Blood Feud
1983
as Edward Bennett Williams
Made for TV movie about Bobby Kennedy's campaign to bring Jimmy Hoffa to justice.

The Horror of It All
1983
as Self / Narrator
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.

This Girl for Hire
1983
as Harrison Wooly
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
1982
as Nereus
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
as Leopold
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
1982
as Martin Craig
A tender love story with Kentucky's thrilling thoroughbred racing world as the stage.

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
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
1981
as Doctor
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
1981
as Martin Komansky
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
1981
as Agustin Magaldi
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
1980
as 'Pokey'
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
1980
as Dominici
A young Asian American martial artist is forced to participate in a brutal formal street-fight competition.

Gideon's Trumpet
1980
as Abe Fortas
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
1980
as Jeff Briggs
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
1979
as Harry Rosenthal
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
1979
as Athos
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
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
1979
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
1978
as Dr. Andrews
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have...

Fedora
1978
as Doctor Vando
An ambitious Hollywood hustler becomes involved with a reclusive female star, whom he tries to lure out of retirement.

The Amazing Captain Nemo
1978
as Captain Nemo
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
1978
as Francesco
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
1977
as Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
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
1977
as Lionel McCoy
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
1977
as Kermit Haas
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
1977
as Inspector Branco
A Romanian vampire-hunter tracks Dracula's servant to Los Angeles, home of the last of his line.

Who Has Seen the Wind
1977
as The Ben
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
1977
as Priest of the Brotherhood
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!
1976
as Marc Denne
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
1976
as Manuel Benitez
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

The Big Bus
1976
as Ironman
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
1976
as Fermin Flores
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
1975
as Beckwith Sloan
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
1975
Various comedy sketches with the Master of Insults, Don Rickles.

Medical Story
1975
as Dr. William Knowland
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Order to Kill
1975
as Inspector Reed
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
1975
as Father Alberto
"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
1975
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
1974
as Cyrano de Bergerac (voice)
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
1973
as Jake Weinhaus
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

Crosscurrent
1971
as Dr. Charles Bedford
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
1971
as Angel of the Lord
The Angel of God and an ordinary shepherd named Gideon debate obedience versus disobedience to God.

Banyon
1971
as Lee Jennings
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
1970
as Dr. Alfred Vreeland
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
1968
as Ben Haramed (voice)
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
1967
as Hassan Bey
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
1967
as Hajj
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
1967
as Harrison B. Marlowe
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
1965
as Rieber
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
1965
as Herod Antipas
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
1964
as Cyrano de Bergerac
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
1963
as Cowan the Reporter
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
1963
as Superintendent Das
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
1962
as Turkish Bey
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
1962
Director
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
1961
Director
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
1958
as Jim Fry
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
1958
Director
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!
1958
as Captain Alfred Dreyfus
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!
1958
Director
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
1957
as Director
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
1956
as Joe Harris
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
1956
Director, Screenplay
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
1955
as Major Stringer
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
Director
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Shrike
1955
as Jim Downs
Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.

The Shrike
1955
Director
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
1954
as Sigmund Romberg
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.

The Caine Mutiny
1954
as Lt. Barney Greenwald
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
1953
as Alfred Davidson
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
1952
as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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
1952
as Giorgi Papashvily
A quirky relationship unfolds between an immigrant and an all-American folk music fan.

Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
as Cyrano de Bergerac
France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano he...

Crisis
1950
as Raoul Farrago
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
1950
as José (uncredited)
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
1950
as David Korvo
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
1948
as The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
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
About the country of Bolivia.