Editing José Ferrer (section)

==Career==
===Theatre===
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[[File:Scene from Othello with Paul Robeson 8e07910v.jpg|thumb|[[Paul Robeson]] (Othello) and Ferrer (Iago) in the 1943 [[Theatre Guild]] production of ''Othello'']]
Ferrer's first professional appearance as an actor was at a "showboat" theater on Long Island in the summer of 1934.

In 1935, Ferrer was the stage manager at the Suffern Country Playhouse, operated by [[Joshua Logan]], whom Ferrer had known at Princeton. [[Ruth Gordon]] and [[Helen Hayes]] recommended him to [[Jed Harris]].
 
Ferrer made his [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] debut in 1935 in ''[[A Slight Case of Murder]]'' which ran 69 performances.

He could also be seen in ''Stick-in-the-Mud'' (1935) and ''Spring Dance'' (1936). Ferrer's first big success was in ''[[Brother Rat]]'' (1936–38) which ran for 577 performances. ''In Clover'' only ran for three performances. ''How to Get Tough About It'' (1938) also had a short run, as did ''Missouri Legend'' (1938).

''Mamba's Daughters'' (1939) ran for 163 performances. Ferrer followed it with ''[[Key Largo (play)|Key Largo]]'' (1939–40) with [[Paul Muni]] and directed by [[Guthrie McClintic]], which went for 105 shows and was later turned into a film.

Ferrer had a huge personal success in the title role of ''[[Charley's Aunt]]'' (1940–41), partly in [[drag (clothing)|drag]], under the direction of [[Joshua Logan]]. It went for 233 performances.

Ferrer then replaced [[Danny Kaye]] in the musical ''[[Let's Face It!]]'' (1943).

===Theatre director and Cyrano===
Ferrer made his debut on Broadway as director with ''Vickie'' (1942) in which he also starred. It only had a short run.

He played [[Iago]] in [[Margaret Webster]]'s Broadway production of ''[[Othello]]'' (1943–44), which starred [[Paul Robeson]] in the [[Othello (character)|title role]], Webster as [[Emilia (Othello)|Emilia]], and Ferrer's wife, [[Uta Hagen]], as [[Desdemona (Othello)|Desdemona]]. That production still holds the record for longest-running repeat performance of a [[Shakespeare]]an play presented in the United States, going for 296 performances (it would be revived in 1945).

Ferrer produced and directed, but did not appear in, ''[[Strange Fruit (novel)#Adaptations|Strange Fruit]]'' (1945–46), starring [[Mel Ferrer]] (no relation).

Among other radio roles, Ferrer starred as detective [[Philo Vance]] in a 1945 series of the same name.<ref>Old Time Radio Researchers Group, [https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Philo_Vance_Singles Philo Vance — Single Episodes] at the [[Internet Archive]]</ref>

===''Cyrano de Bergerac''===
[[File:Actor Jose Ferrer in costume at Maple Leaf Gardens.jpg|left|thumb|Ferrer in costume in an unnamed play at Maple Leaf Gardens]]
Ferrer may be best remembered for his performance in the title role of ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (play)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'', which he first played on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in 1946. Ferrer feared that the production would be a failure in rehearsals, due to the open dislike for the play by director [[Mel Ferrer]] (no relation), so he called in [[Joshua Logan]] (who had directed his star-making performance in ''[[Charley's Aunt]]'') to serve as "play doctor" for the production. Logan wrote that he simply had to eliminate pieces of business which director Ferrer had inserted in his staging; they presumably were intended to sabotage the more sentimental elements of the play that the director considered to be corny and in bad taste.<ref>{{cite book| first=Joshua| last=Logan| title=Josh, My Up and Down, In and Out Life| publisher=Delacorte Press| date=1 May 1976| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IqUR9zWAGv0C&q=cyrano| pages=79–80| isbn=978-0440042358| url-access=subscription}}</ref> The production became one of the hits of the 1946/47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play|Tony Award]] for his depiction of the long-nosed poet/swordsman.

On January 9, 1949, Ferrer made his television debut when he starred in ''[[The Philco Television Playhouse]]''{{'}}s one-hour adaptation of the play.<ref name=v>{{cite magazine |date=January 12, 1949 |page=30 |title=Tele Follow-up Comment |magazine=Variety |url=https://archive.org/details/variety173-1949-01/page/n306/mode/1up?view=theater |accessdate=January 3, 2023}}</ref>

Ferrer directed, but did not appear in, ''As We Forgive Our Debtors'' (1947), which ran 5 performances. There was another short run for ''[[Volpone]]'' (1947) which Ferrer adapted and played the title role.<ref>{{cite news| title=Jose Ferrer (Cartoon)| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1947/04/20/archives/jose-ferrer.html| newspaper=The New York Times| date=20 April 1947| page=SM25| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

===Early films===
Ferrer made his film debut in the Technicolor epic ''[[Joan of Arc (1948 film)|Joan of Arc]]'' (1948) as the weak-willed Dauphin opposite [[Ingrid Bergman]] as Joan. Ferrer's performance earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

At the [[New York City Center|City Center]], he acted in revivals of ''[[Angel Street (play)|Angel Street]]'' (1948) and ''[[The Alchemist (play)|The Alchemist]]'' (1948) and directed ''S. S. Glencairn'' (1948) and ''The Insect Comedy'' (1948) (also appearing in the latter).<ref>{{cite web| title=New York City Theatre Company| url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/new-york-city-theatre-company-474695| website=[[Internet Broadway Database]]| access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>

Ferrer had another Broadway hit with ''[[The Silver Whistle (play)|The Silver Whistle]]'' (1948–49) which ran for 219 performances.<ref>"Jose Ferrer-Erwenter" ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' 25 September 1948: p.11.</ref> He performed two shows for ''[[The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse]]'' on TV in 1949: Cyrano, playing the title role, and an adaptation of ''[[What Makes Sammy Run?]]'', playing Sammy Glick (adapted by [[Paddy Chayefsky]]).

Ferrer returned to Hollywood to appear in [[Otto Preminger]]'s ''[[Whirlpool (1950 film)|Whirlpool]]'' (1950), supporting [[Gene Tierney]], and [[Richard Brooks]]' ''[[Crisis (1950 film)|Crisis]]'' (1950), opposite [[Cary Grant]].

===Film stardom===
Ferrer then played the title role in ''[[Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film)|Cyrano de Bergerac]]'' (1950), directed by [[Michael Gordon (film director)|Michael Gordon]] and produced by [[Stanley Kramer]]. Ferrer won the Best Actor Oscar, becoming the first actor to win the Oscar for the same role which won him the Tony. The film was widely seen although it lost money.<ref name="tino">{{cite book| first=Tino| last=Balio| title=United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry| publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]]| date=December 15, 1987| page=47| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QljKdIYzncoC| isbn=978-0299114404| url-access=subscription}}</ref> Ferrer donated the Oscar to the University of Puerto Rico, and it was subsequently stolen in 2000.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jose-ferrer-oscar-mystery-statuette-867616| title=Jose Ferrer Oscar Mystery: Statuette MIA, and the Academy Won't Replace It| newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]| language=en| last=Morrison| first=Mark| access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>
 
Ferrer returned to Broadway for a revival of ''[[Twentieth Century (play)|Twentieth Century]]'' (1950–51) which he directed and starred in, opposite [[Gloria Swanson]]; it went for 233 performances. Immediately following, he produced and directed, but did not appear in, ''Stalag 17'' (1951–52), a big hit running for 472 performances. Even more popular was ''[[The Fourposter]]'' (1951–53) in which he directed [[Hume Cronyn]] and [[Jessica Tandy]]; it ran for 632 performances.

Ferrer returned to cinema screens in the comedy ''[[Anything Can Happen]]'' (1952), directed by [[George Seaton]], where Ferrer played an immigrant.

More popular was ''[[Moulin Rouge (1952 film)|Moulin Rouge]]'' (1952) in which Ferrer played the role of [[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]] under [[John Huston]]'s direction.<ref>'The Top Box Office Hits of 1953', ''Variety'', 13 January 1954</ref> Ferrer received 40% of the profits<ref>{{cite court| date=5 June 1952| url=http://openjurist.org/304/f2d/125/commissioner-of-internal-revenue-v-ferrer| vol=304| court=F. 2d Cir| opinion=125| litigants=Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Ferrer| access-date=27 June 2020| via=OpenJurist}}</ref> as well as his third and final Oscar nomination.

Back on Broadway, Ferrer directed and starred in ''[[The Shrike (play)|The Shrike]]'' (1952), which ran for 161 performances.<ref>Coe, Richard L. (10 February 1952). "48th Street Salutes Genius of Ferrer". ''[[The Washington Post]]'': L1.</ref>

His next two shows were as director only: [[Horton Foote]]'s ''The Chase'' (1952) only had a short run but ''[[My Three Angels (play)|My Three Angels]]'' (1953–54), went for 344 performances.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://www.playbill.com/production/my-3-angels-morosco-theatre-vault-0000002439| title=My 3 Angels| journal=Playbill Vault| access-date=June 27, 2020}}</ref>

Ferrer had another cinema hit with ''[[Miss Sadie Thompson]]'' (1953) starring [[Rita Hayworth]].<ref>'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', ''Variety Weekly'', January 5, 1955</ref> Ferrer briefly revived some of his shows at the City Centre in 1953: Cyrano, ''The Shrike'', ''[[Richard III (play)|Richard III]]'', ''Charley's Aunt''.<ref>Chapman, John (29 November 1953). "Jose Ferrer Donates Self to City Center" ''Chicago Daily Tribune'': E5.</ref>
[[File:Jose Ferrer in Caine Mutiny.jpg|thumb|Ferrer as Lieutenant Barney Greenwald in ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]],'' released in 1954]]

He returned to films with ''[[The Caine Mutiny (1954 film)|The Caine Mutiny]]'' (1954) for Kramer, co-starring with [[Humphrey Bogart]] and [[Van Johnson]], playing defense lawyer Barney Greenwald; the film was a huge hit.<ref>[http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1954/0CMUT.php "''The Caine Mutiny'': Summary"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928234117/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1954/0CMUT.php |date=2013-09-28 }}. ''The Numbers''. Retrieved April 15, 2013.</ref> Greenwald's [[Judaism|Jewish]] faith, so prominent in the novel that it informed his judgments of the U.S.S. ''Caine's'' officers, was downplayed in the film, as Ferrer, being Puerto Rican, was nominally [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]].

Also popular was ''[[Deep in My Heart (1954 film)|Deep in My Heart]]'' (1955) where Ferrer played [[Sigmund Romberg]], and which made a profit of over $1 million.<ref name="Mannix">{{Citation | title=The Eddie Mannix Ledger| publisher=Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study| place=Los Angeles}}</ref>

===Film director===
Ferrer made his debut as film director at Universal with an adaptation of ''[[The Shrike (film)|The Shrike]]'' (1955), in which he also starred opposite [[June Allyson]].

Ferrer then performed Cyrano in an episode of ''[[Producer's Showcase]]'' on television, directed by Mel Ferrer and co-starring [[Claire Bloom]].

He went to England to star in and direct a war film for [[Warwick Productions]], ''[[The Cockleshell Heroes]]'' (1955), alongside [[Trevor Howard]]; it was a success at the British box office.<ref>{{cite news| title=Film Pact Signed By Joshua Logan: He Will Make His Debut as Screen Director in 'Picnic' Adaptation for Columbia| first=Thomas M.| last=Pryor| newspaper=The New York Times| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/01/07/archives/film-pact-signed-by-joshua-logan-he-will-make-his-debut-as-screen.html| date=7 January 1955| page=16| url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=British Films Made Most Money: Box-Office Survey| work=The Manchester Guardian| date=28 December 1956| page=3}}</ref>

Ferrer co-wrote, directed and starred in the film ''[[The Great Man]]'' (1956), at Universal. He directed and starred in two films for MGM: ''[[I Accuse!]]'' (1958), where he played [[Captain Alfred Dreyfus]], and ''[[The High Cost of Loving]]'' (1958) a comedy with [[Gena Rowlands]]. Both flopped at the box office.

Back on Broadway, Ferrer co-wrote and directed the stage musical ''[[Oh, Captain!]]'' (1958) with [[Tony Randall]], which only had a short run. He directed and starred in ''[[Edwin Booth]]'' (1958), playing the title role; it was not a success.

In 1958, Ferrer narrated the children's album ''Tubby the Tuba'', which was nominated for the [[Grammy Award for Best Album for Children|Best Recording For Children]] at the [[1st Annual Grammy Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Jose Ferrer |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/jose-ferrer |website=Grammy.com |access-date=18 February 2019 |language=en |date=15 February 2019}}</ref>

Ferrer took over the direction of the troubled musical ''[[Juno (musical)|Juno]]'' (1959) from [[Vincent J. Donehue]], who had himself taken over from [[Tony Richardson]]. The show, which starred [[Shirley Booth]], folded after 16 performances and mixed to extremely negative critical reaction.

However, he followed it directing the original stage production of [[Saul Levitt]]'s ''[[The Andersonville Trial]]'' (1959–60), about the trial following the revelation of conditions at the infamous [[American Civil War|Civil War]] prison. It was a hit and featured [[George C. Scott]], running for 179 performances.

Around this time, Ferrer also appeared in television in episodes of ''[[General Electric Theater]]'' and ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''.

===20th Century Fox===
Ferrer signed a contract with [[20th Century Fox]] to direct films. He made ''[[Return to Peyton Place (film)|Return to Peyton Place]]'' (1961) and ''[[State Fair (1962 film)|State Fair]]'' (1962), both of which were commercial disappointments.<ref>Schaumach, Murray (18 July 1961). [https://www.nytimes.com/1961/07/18/archives/jose-ferrer-ends-long-film-famine-actordirector-in-deal-with-fox.html?searchResultPosition=1 "Jose Ferrer Ends Long Film Famine: Actor-Director in deal With Fox, Explains 4-Year Lapse"]. ''The New York Times'': 33.</ref>

Ferrer had a key support role in the film ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) which was a huge success. Although Ferrer's performance was only small he said it was his best on screen.

At Fox, he played an investigating police officer in ''[[Nine Hours to Rama]]'' (1963). He also guest starred on ''[[The Greatest Show on Earth (TV series)|The Greatest Show on Earth]]''.<ref>Humphrey, Hal (11 August 1963). "Jose Ferrer---TV's Reluctant Ham". ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'': D26.</ref>

Ferrer returned to Broadway to star in [[Noël Coward]]'s musical ''[[The Girl Who Came to Supper]]'' (1963–64) which ran for 112 performances.<ref name=bway>[http://www.playbill.com/production/the-girl-who-came-to-supper-broadway-theatre-vault-0000012282# " 'The Girl Who Came to Supper' Broadway"]. ''Playbill'' (vault), accessed December 5, 2016</ref>

He narrated the first episode of the popular 1964 [[sitcom]] ''[[Bewitched]]'', in mock documentary style.

Ferrer went to Germany to make ''[[Stop Train 349]]'' (1963) with [[Sean Flynn (photojournalist)|Sean Flynn]]. He appeared in the 1964 French film ''[[Cyrano et d'Artagnan]]'' directed by [[Abel Gance]].

Back in Hollywood, Ferrer played [[Herod Antipas]] in ''[[The Greatest Story Ever Told]]'' (1965) and was in ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'' (1965) for Stanley Kramer.

A notable performance of his later stage career was as [[Miguel de Cervantes]] and his fictional creation [[Don Quixote]] in the hit musical ''[[Man of La Mancha]]''. Ferrer took over the role from [[Richard Kiley]] in 1966 and subsequently went on tour with it in the first national company of the show. Tony Martinez continued in the role of [[Sancho Panza]] under Ferrer, as he had with Kiley.

Ferrer starred in [[Carl Reiner]]'s ''[[Enter Laughing (film)|Enter Laughing]]'' (1967) and did a production of ''[[Kismet (1967 film)|Kismet]]'' (1967) on TV. He went to Europe to do ''[[Cervantes (film)|Cervantes]]'' (1967) and appeared in ''[[A Case of Libel]]'' (1968) for US TV. He also provided the voice of the evil Ben Haramed in the 1968 [[Rankin/Bass Productions|Rankin/Bass]] Christmas TV special ''[[The Little Drummer Boy (TV special)|The Little Drummer Boy]]''. In 1968 the IRS sent him a tax bill of $122,000 going back to 1962.<ref>"IRS Cracks Down on Actor Jose Ferrer". ''Los Angeles Times.'' 8 May 1968: G23.</ref>

===1970s===
Ferrer appeared in the [[television film]]s ''[[The Aquarians]]'' (1970), ''Gideon'' (1971) and ''Crosscurrent'' (1971) and guest-starred on ''[[The Name of the Game (TV series)|The Name of the Game]]'' and ''[[Banyon]]''.<ref>"Jose Ferrer Set for 'Banyon' Role". ''Los Angeles Times.'' 25 December 1970: E38.</ref>

Ferrer directed ''The Web and the Rock'' (1972) on stage in New York and appeared in ''[[List of Kojak episodes|The Marcus-Nelson Murders]]'' (1973), ''[[Orson Welles Great Mysteries]]'' (1973), and ''[[Columbo]]''.

Around 1973, he narrated ''A Touch of Royalty'', a documentary on the life and death of [[Puerto Rico]]'s [[baseball]] star [[Roberto Clemente]]. Ferrer voiced both versions, Spanish and English.

Ferrer voiced a highly truncated cartoon version of ''Cyrano'' for an episode of ''[[The ABC Afterschool Special]]'' in 1974.

Ferrer appeared in ''The Missing Are Deadly'' (1975), ''[[Forever Young, Forever Free]]'' (1975), ''Order to Assassinate'' (1975), ''[[Medical Story]]'' (1975), ''The Art of Crime'' (1975), ''Truman at Potsdam'' (1976) (playing Stalin), ''[[The Big Bus]]'' (1976), ''Paco'' (1976)., ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' (1976), ''[[Crash!]]'' (1976), ''[[The Sentinel (1977 film)|The Sentinel]]'' (1977), ''[[Zoltan, Hound of Dracula]]'' (1977), ''[[Exo-Man]]'' (1977), ''[[Who Has Seen the Wind (1977 film)|Who Has Seen the Wind]]'' (1977), ''[[The Rhinemann Exchange]]'', ''[[The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover]]'' (1977), ''[[Fedora (1978 film)|Fedora]]'' (1978) from [[Billy Wilder]], ''[[The Amazing Captain Nemo]]'' (1978) (in the title role), and ''[[The Swarm (1978 film)|The Swarm]]''. He guest starred on ''[[Starsky and Hutch]]'' and ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)|Tales of the Unexpected]]''.

During the Bicentennial, Ferrer narrated the world premiere of [[Michael Jeffrey Shapiro]]'s ''A Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776'' for narrator and orchestra with Martin Rich leading the Philharmonic Symphony of Westchester.

Ferrer was a replacement cast member in a production of [[David Mamet]]'s ''[[A Life in the Theatre]]'' (1977–78). He produced and starred in ''White Pelicans'' (1978) and directed ''[[Carmelina]]'' (1979) on stage but it only ran 17 performances.

He was in ''[[The Fifth Musketeer]]'' (1979), ''[[The Concorde ... Airport '79]]'' (1979), ''[[Natural Enemies]]'' (1979), ''[[The French Atlantic Affair]]'' (1979), ''[[A Life of Sin]]'', a 1979 film by Puerto Rican director Efraín López Neris which also starred [[Raul Julia]], [[Míriam Colón]] and [[Henry Darrow]], and ''Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die'' (1980). He did ''The Merchant'' on stage in Canada.<ref>"Briefly: Jose Ferrer set". ''The Globe and Mail.'' 23 August 1979: P.13.</ref>

===1980s===
In 1980, he had a role as future Justice [[Abe Fortas]] in the made-for-[[television film]] version of [[Anthony Lewis]]' ''[[Gideon's Trumpet]]'', opposite [[Henry Fonda]] in an [[Emmy Award|Emmy]]-nominated performance as [[Clarence Earl Gideon]].

He also appeared in ''[[Battle Creek Brawl]]'' (1980), ''[[Pleasure Palace]]'' (1980), ''[[The Dream Merchants (miniseries)|The Dream Merchants]]'' (1980), ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]'', ''Evita Peron'' (1981), ''Berlin Tunnel 21'' (1981), ''[[Peter and Paul (film)|Peter and Paul]]'' (1981) with [[Anthony Hopkins]], ''[[Bloody Birthday]]'' (1981), [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy]]'' (1982) (a classy yet somewhat antagonistic university professor/author whose booming voice both begins and ends the film), ''[[Blood Tide]]'' (1982), [[Blood Feud (1983 film)|''Blood Feud'']] (1982), ''This Girl for Hire'' (1983), ''[[The Being]]'' (1983) and [[Mel Brooks]]'s version of [[To Be or Not to Be (1983 film)|''To Be or Not to Be'']] (1983).

From 1982 to 1985, he was artistic director of the Coconut Grove Theatre in Miami.<ref>{{cite news| title=Ferrer Ends Reign Over Miami Theater| url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-01-17-8501100093-story.html| date=17 January 1985| agency=Knight-Ridder Newspapers| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>

He guest-starred on ''[[Quincy, M.E.]]'', ''[[Another World (TV series)|Another World]]'', ''[[Fantasy Island]]'', ''[[Hotel (U.S. TV series)|Hotel]]'', ''[[The Love Boat]]'', ''[[Bridges to Cross]]'', and ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''.

Ferrer was in ''[[The Evil That Men Do (film)|The Evil That Men Do]]'' (1984), ''[[Samson and Delilah (1984 film)|Samson and Delilah]]'' (1984), and ''[[George Washington (miniseries)|George Washington]]'' (1984). He was the Emperor in ''[[Dune (1984 film)|Dune]]'' (1984) and was in ''[[Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil]]'' (1985), ''Seduced'' (1985), ''Covenant'' (1985), ''[[Blood & Orchids]]'' (1986), ''Young Harry Houdini'', and ''[[The Wind in the Willows (1987 film)|The Wind in the Willows]]'' (1987).

Ferrer made his farewell to Cyrano by performing a short passage from the play for the [[40th Tony Awards|1986 Tony Awards]] telecast.

Although not the original actor to play the character, Ferrer, beginning in the third season, had a recurring role as [[Julia Duffy]]'s [[White Anglo-Saxon Protestant|WASPy]] father in the long-running television series ''[[Newhart]]'' in the 1980s.

In an interview given in the 1980s, he bemoaned the lack of good character parts for aging stars, and admitted that he now took on roles mostly for the money, such as his roles in the horror potboilers ''[[The Swarm (1978 film)|The Swarm]]'', in which he played a doctor, and ''[[Dracula's Dog]]'', in which he played a police inspector.

Ferrer's final performances include ''The Sun and the Moon'' (1987), ''[[American Playhouse]]'' ("[[Strange Interlude]]" with [[Kenneth Branagh]]), ''[[Mother's Day (1989 film)|Mother's Day]]'' (1989), ''[[Matlock (1986 TV series)|Matlock]]'', ''[[Hired to Kill (1990 film)|Hired to Kill]]'' (1990), ''[[Old Explorers]]'' (1990) and ''[[Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews|The Perfect Tribute]]''.

He was cast in a Broadway play ''[[Conversations with My Father]]'' (1991) but withdrew due to poor health.<ref name=LAT>"Stage, Film Actor Jose Ferrer Dies". ''Los Angeles Times'' 27 January 1992: VYA3</ref>

===Legacy===
* Ferrer was the first [[Hispanic]] actor to win an [[Academy Award]].
* In 2005, the [[Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors]] (HOLA) renamed its Tespis Award to the ''HOLA José Ferrer Tespis Award''.
* Ferrer was honored for his theatrical and cinematic works with an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and a National Medal of Arts, becoming the first actor and Hispanic to be presented with the prestigious award.
* Ferrer's sons Rafael Ferrer and [[Miguel Ferrer]], his daughter (Letty Ferrer), and his granddaughter [[Tessa Ferrer]] also became actors and actresses.
* Ferrer donated his Academy Award to the [[University of Puerto Rico]]. The award was stolen after being misplaced during the remodeling of the university's theater.
* On April 26, 2012, the [[United States Postal Service]] issued a stamp in Ferrer's honor in its [[Distinguished Americans series]].<ref name="auto"/>