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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 27, 1992                   TAG: 9201270017
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: MIAMI                                LENGTH: Short

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`CYRANO' ACTOR JOSE FERRER DIES

Jose Ferrer, the renowned stage and screen actor who won an Academy Award in 1950 for his role as Cyrano de Bergerac, died Sunday.

Ferrer, who made his reputation as a classical actor with his 1946 Broadway triumph in the title role of Cyrano, died at Doctors' Hospital in Coral Gables, said a hospital official who asked not to be identified.

The cause of death was not given.

Various film reference books give his age at 80, but others list it at 83 and 73.

"I shared the most important part of my life with him and I will miss him very much," Rosemary Clooney, Ferrer's third wife, said Sunday. She was married to him from 1953-67.

Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Ferrer earned a bachelor's degree at Princeton University and began his career as an assistant stage manager in 1935.

He appeared as Iago opposite Paul Robeson's Othello in 1943, and won Tony awards for best dramatic actor in 1947 and 1952, but never limited himself to the stage.

Clooney and Ferrer had five children, including actor Miguel Ferrer, who played the quirky FBI pathologist Albert Rosenfield in ABC's "Twin Peaks."

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