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Audrey Hepburn's ex, director Mel Ferrer, dies

Updated: 2008-06-04 09:28
(Agencies)
Audrey Hepburn's ex, director Mel Ferrer, dies
In this Sept. 26, 1954 file photo, actress Audrey Hepburn, 22, and actor Mel Ferrer, 37, are shown on their wedding day in Burgenstock, Switzerland.[Agencies]

The pair divorced in 1968 and Ferrer married his fourth wife, Elizabeth Soukhotine, in 1971. She survives him.

Ferrer and Hepburn costarred in a television version of "Mayerling," and Ferrer directed Hepburn in the 1959 film "Green Mansions."

He also produced one of Hepburn's greatest film triumphs, 1967's "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which she portrays a blind woman terrorized by drug dealers who break into her home.

Born Melchor Gaston Ferrer on Aug. 25, 1917, in Elberon, N.J., Ferrer was the son of a Cuban-born doctor and a socialite mother. He grew up in comfortable surroundings, attending private schools and Princeton University.

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