Cast & creator
José Ferrer
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Columbo, The Love Boat
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.
Also known as: Jose Ferrer, José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón
105
film credits
26
television credits
123
1946–2015 · acting roles
6.6
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (131)
Showing 131 of 131 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Columbo
Marshall Cahill
1971
The Love Boat
Deke Donner
1977
What's My Line?
Self
1950
Murder, She Wrote
Cagliostro
1984
Magnum, P.I.
Robert Caine
1980
American Playhouse
Professor Leeds
1982
Matlock
Nicholas Baron
1986
Hotel
Alex Huff
1982
Tales of the Unexpected
Carlos
1979
Newhart
Arthur Vanderkellen
1982
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948
The Danny Kaye Show
Self
1963
Dune
Padisha Emperor Shaddam IV
1984
Lawrence of Arabia
Turkish Bey
1962
The Bell Telephone Hour
Self
1959
Medical Story
Dr. William Knowland
1975Producers' Showcase
1954
The French Atlantic Affair
Pres. Aristide Brouchard
1979The Lux Show
Self
1957The Rosemary Clooney Show
Self
1956
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Herod Antipas
1965
The Big Brawl
Dominici
1980
The Sentinel
Priest of the Brotherhood
1977
To Be or Not to Be
Prof. Siletski
1983
The Caine Mutiny
Lt. Barney Greenwald
1954Teleplay
Sam
1976
Voyage of the Damned
Manuel Benitez
1976
Peter and Paul
Gamaliel
1981
The Dream Merchants
George Pappas
1980
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
Leopold
1982
George Washington
Governor Dinwiddie
1984
Ship of Fools
Rieber
1965
The Rhinemann Exchange
Erich Rhinemann
1977
Strange Interlude
Professor Leeds
1988
Joan of Arc
The Dauphin, Charles VII, later King of France
1948
The Evil That Men Do
Dr. Hector Lomelin
1984
Night of 100 Stars
Self
1982
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Lionel McCoy
1977
Moulin Rouge
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1952
Blood & Orchids
Walter Bergman
1986
The Big Bus
Ironman
1976
Fedora
Doctor Vando
1978
The Swarm
Dr. Andrews
1978
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950
Pleasure Palace
'Pokey'
1980
Deep in My Heart
Sigmund Romberg
1954
The Little Drummer Boy
Ben Haramed (voice)
1968
The Fifth Musketeer
Athos
1979
Return to Peyton Place
Director
1961
The Cockleshell Heroes
Major Stringer
1955The Cockleshell Heroes
Director
1955
The Amazing Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo
1978
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self
1991
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
Jake Weinhaus
1973
Nine Hours to Rama
Superintendent Das
1963
Hired to Kill
Rallis
1990
Whirlpool
David Korvo
1950
Bloody Birthday
Doctor
1981
Bogart: The Untold Story
Self (archive footage)
1997
Gideon's Trumpet
Abe Fortas
1980
Zoltan… Hound of Dracula
Inspector Branco
1977
Medical Story
Dr. William Knowland
1975
This Girl for Hire
Harrison Wooly
1983
The Secret Fury
José (uncredited)
1950
Life of Sin
Bishop
1979
Covenant
Victor Noble
1985
I Accuse!
Captain Alfred Dreyfus
1958I Accuse!
Director
1958
And They're Off
Martin Craig
1982
Stop Train 349
Cowan the Reporter
1963
Old Explorers
Warner Watney
1990
Samson and Delilah
The High Priest
1984
Seduced
James Killian
1985
The Being
Mayor Gordon Lane
1983
State Fair
Director
1962A Case of Libel
Boyd Bendix
1968
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Prof. Ludwig Rosenberg
1985
Crash!
Marc Denne
1976
The Wind in the Willows
Badger (voice)
1983
Miss Sadie Thompson
Alfred Davidson
1953
Who Has Seen the Wind
The Ben
1977
The Wedding in Monaco
Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956
Fame
Francesco
1978
The Missing Are Deadly
1975
Four Girls in Town
Director
1957
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Cyrano de Bergerac
1964
Order to Kill
Inspector Reed
1975
Blood Tide
Nereus
1982
The High Cost of Loving
Jim Fry
1958The High Cost of Loving
Director
1958
Simple Gifts
Narrator (segment "A Memory of Christmas") (voice)
1977
Cyrano
Cyrano de Bergerac (voice)
1974
The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years
Self (archive footage)
1993
Evita Peron
Agustin Magaldi
1981
Berlin Tunnel 21
Martin Komansky
1981
Crisis
Raoul Farrago
1950Bolivia
Narrator
1946UFOs: It Has Begun
1979
Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Hassan Bey
1967
The Art of Crime
Beckwith Sloan
1975
Crosscurrent
Dr. Charles Bedford
1971
Banyon
Lee Jennings
1971
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Jeff Briggs
1980
Young Harry Houdini
Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi
1987
The Horror of It All
Self / Narrator
1983
Paco
Fermin Flores
1976
Natural Enemies
Harry Rosenthal
1979
Enter Laughing
Harrison B. Marlowe
1967
3-D Rarities
Alfred Davidson (archive footage)
2015
Mother's Day
Judge Leatham
1989
Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
Narrator (voice)
1985Raíces eternas
English Narrator
1984Truman at Potsdam
Josef Stalin
1976The Sun and the Moon
1987
Kismet
Hajj
1967
The Great Man
Joe Harris
1956The Great Man
Director
1956The Great Man
Screenplay
1956
Rickles
1975
Exo-Man
Kermit Haas
1977Regie: Billy Wilder
Self
1978
The Perfect Tribute
Edward Everett
1991
Gideon
Angel of the Lord
1971
The Shrike
Jim Downs
1955The Shrike
Director
1955
The Aquarians
Dr. Alfred Vreeland
1970
Anything Can Happen
Giorgi Papashvily
1952Rodin: The Gates of Hell
Self - Rodin(voice)
1982
Blood Feud
Edward Bennett Williams
1983
Forever Young, Forever Free
Father Alberto
1975