Mel Ferrer, the tall, darkly handsome leading man who starred in such classic films as "Lili," "War and Peace" and "The Sun Also Rises" and who produced and directed several movies starring his ex-wife Audrey Hepburn died Monday at a Santa Barbara, Calif., convalescent home. He was 90.
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Ferrer's most impressive film role came in 1953 in "Lili" as a crippled puppeteer in a carnival with whom a French orphan (Leslie Caron) falls in love. He also won critical acclaim in Robert Rossen's 1951 depiction of the life of a bullfighter in "The Brave Bulls."
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