Mel Ferrer, the actor/director and one-time husband of the late Audrey Hepburn, passed away on Monday at his ranch in California.  Ferrer was 90-years old.  Ferrer appeared in over a 100 films and directed/produced several others.

He appeared in more than 100 films and made-for-television movies, directed nine films and produced nine more.

Ferrer’s most impressive film role came in 1953 in “Lili.” He played a disabled carnival puppeteer with whom a French orphan (played by Leslie Caron) falls in love.

On the big screen, Ferrer was most recognizable for his performance as Prince Andrei in “War and Peace” in 1956 with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda. He was paid the then princely sum of $100,000. He appeared in “The Sun Also Rises” alongside Ava Gardner, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn.

Ferrer was often cast in big pictures during the late ’50s and early ’60s: “The World, the Flesh and the Devil” with Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens; “Sex and the Single Girl” with Natalie Wood and Tony Curtis; “Paris Does Strange Things” with Ingrid Bergman; and “The Longest Day” with an all-star male cast.

Hepburn was Ferrer’s fourth wife.  They were married from 1954-1968. The produced a son Sean Hepburn Ferrer during their marriage.  Ferrer married a total of five times.   His other wives were Frances Gulby Pilchard (married twice), Barbara C. Tripp, Elizabeth Soukhoutine.