Biography
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime and after, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He 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. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award for Best Actor, making him both the first Hispanic and the first Puerto Rican–born actor to win an Academy Award.
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Awards & recognition
- Distinguished Americans series · 2012
- honorary doctor of the University of Miami · 1984
- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1952
- Tony Award — Best Director · 1952
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1951
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- Tony Award — Best Actor in a Play · 1947
- Donaldson Awards
- National Medal of Arts
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Tony Award — Best Musical · 1958 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1953 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Actor · 1951 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1949 · nominated
Filmography47 titles
Paco
The Horror of It All
Columbo
Rodin: The Gates of Hell
Lawrence of Arabia
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Magnum, P.I.
The Caine Mutiny
Matlock
What's My Line?
Cyrano de Bergerac
Tales of the Unexpected
The Ed Sullivan Show
To Be or Not to Be
Berlin Tunnel 21
Deep in My Heart
Crisis
The Little Drummer Boy
Ship of Fools
Return to Peyton Place
Moulin Rouge
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Gideon's Trumpet
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Love Boat
Dune
The Sentinel
Joan of Arc
Voyage of the Damned
Bloody Birthday
Battle Creek Brawl
The Cockleshell Heroes
The Evil That Men Do
Crash!
The Big Bus
Samson and Delilah
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
This Girl for Hire
Blood Tide
The Swarm
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
The Being
The Fifth Musketeer
Zoltan… Hound of Dracula
Enter Laughing
Rickles