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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mel Ferrer
(August 25, 1917 - June 2, 2008) was an American actor, film director
and film producer. Ferrer was born Melchor Gastón Ferrer in Elberon, New
Jersey, of Spanish (Catalan) and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José
María Ferrer (1857-1920), was born in Cuba, was an authority on
pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New
York City. His American mother, the former Mary Matilda Irene O'Donohue
(1878-1967), was a daughter of coffee broker Joseph J. O'Donohue, New
York's City Commissioner of Parks, a founder of the Coffee Exchange, and
a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry. An ardent opponent of
Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State
chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws.
