MIGUEL FERRER

20 Jan

(7 February 1955 - 19 January 2017)

The American actor was the son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney and the cousin of George Clooney. He studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse but became a musician, singing and playing drums. For some time he toured with his mother and Bing Crosby but when Crosby died Miguel turned to acting. On TV from 1981, he made a few forgettable films until his first major movie, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. More films and more TV followed until RoboCop came along in 1987 and the role of Bob Morton. Later movies included Tony Scott’s Revenge and William Friedkin’s The Guardian. Then there was Twin Peaks, in which series he played FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield, a role he repeated in two subsequent movie versions. A mixture of film, television and voice-over work (like his father, he had a rich, deep voice) kept Ferrer constantly busy. From 2000 his credits included Traffic, John Sayles’s Sunshine State and Silver City, the remake of The Manchurian Candidate, Iron Man 3 and Four Assassins. On TV he was in Desperate Housewives and Crossing Jordan, also directing some episodes of the latter. Another series of Twin Peaks is due in 2017. Miguel Ferrer was married twice and fathered two children.

MICHAEL DARVELL

Michael Darvell

Michael Darvell trained as a librarian at Watford and in Surrey before joining Ealing Libraries where he became Music Librarian for the borough. He edited Masthead, the magazine of the University of North London School of Librarianship, The Surrealist, the staff magazine of Surrey County Library, and contributed to the Assistant Librarian and London Librarian professional journals. A freelance film reviewer since 1970, he has written for Film, Films Illustrated, Film Review, Movie Maker and Radio Times, as well as editing Montage, the London film societies magazine, for ten years. A change of career saw him joining What’s On in London as Features Editor and he eventually stepped into the shoes of the late F. Maurice Speed (founding father of Film Review annual) as the magazine’s Editor. From 2007 to 2015, he was co-editor of the Film Review annual with Mansel Stimpson. As well as writing about films, Michael has reviewed theatre for The Stage newspaper, and has written about music theatre and cabaret for the Classical Source and Musical Theatre Review websites. He is also a former restaurant critic for the ViewLondon website. Michael has been a member of the London Film Critics’ Circle since 2005.

MIGUEL FERRER

MARY TYLER MOORE

WILLIAM PETER BLATTY