José Ferrer
Birth Name: José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón
Date of Birth: January 8, 1912
Place of Birth: Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date of Death: January 26, 1992
Place of Death: Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.
Ethnicity: Puerto Rican [Spanish, including Canary Islander, Catalan, possibly other]
José Ferrer was a Puerto Rican actor and director. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). He was the first person of Latin American descent to win an acting Academy Award. His many roles also included Moulin Rouge (1952), The Caine Mutiny (1954), and Ship of Fools (1965).
José was the son of Rafael Ferrer y Otero, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and María Providencia del Carmen Cintrón y Cintrón, from Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. His father was a lawyer and writer. His aunt (father’s sister), Monserrate “Monsita” Ferrer Otero, was a pianist and feminist.
José was married to Stella Magee, until his death. He had a daughter with his former wife, acting teacher Uta Hagen, and five children with his former wife, singer and actress Rosemary Clooney, including actors Miguel Ferrer and Rafael Ferrer. His granddaughter is actress Tessa Ferrer.
José’s paternal grandfather was Gabriel Ferrer y Hernández (the son of Andrés Ferrer Rivera and Maria Zenon/Venina/Zenoa Hernandez Lanzo). Gabriel was a doctor, and advocate of Puerto Rican independence from Spain. He was born in San Juan. Andrés was from Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Venina was from the Canary Islands, Spain.
José’s paternal grandmother was Monserrate/Mensenate Otero y Navedo (the daughter of Agustín Otero-Martinez and María Francisca De Las Mercedes Navedo-Córdova). Monserrate was from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
José’s maternal grandfather was José Vicente Cintrón y Bardeque (the son of Faustino Cintrón). José’s grandfather José was born in Yabucoa.
José’s maternal grandmother was Elvira Cintrón y Cintrón (the daughter of Isidoro Cintrón and Laureana Cintrón). Elvira was born in Yabucoa.
Sources: Genealogy of José Ferrer – https://www.wikitree.com
Death record of José Ferrer – https://old.findagrave.com
Marriage record of José’s parents – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of José’s aunt, Monserrate “Monsita” Ferrer Otero – https://www.findagrave.com
Ferrer is definitely a Catalan surname so there’s that
Cintrón is also a Catalan surname from Balearic Islands.
As I noted in the past, a lot of Iberian descendants in New World have roots in Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Balearic Islands, Corsica.
Immigration from Sicily was huge too, and there are communities from the tiny Sicilian islands of Ustica and Lipari group in Louisiana and Australia, respectively.
Also a lot of Greeks in the world have roots in Crete, Rhodes etc
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ferrer-39
son of Rafael Ferrer y Otero, a lawyer and writer from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and María Providencia del Carmen Cintrón y Cintrón, from Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
paternal grandparents: Gabriel Ferrer y Hernández (a doctor and advocate of Puerto Rican independence from Spain, the son of Andrés Ferrer and Venina/Cenona Hernandez) and Monserrate Otero y Navedo. Andrés was from Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Venina was from Canary Islands, Spain. Monserrate was from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico.
maternal grandparents: José Vicente Cintrón y Bardeque (the son of Faustino Cintrón) and Elvira Cintrón y Cintrón (the daughter of Isidoro Cintrón and Laureana Cintrón). All from Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
Jose’s aunt (father’s sister): https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=153906013
Also make a single tag for Canarian/Canary Islander, that is a massive contribution in the ancestry of Puerto Ricans and Cubans.
Ethnic, is there a picture, please?
I might wait till the contributor of that wiki pic gets cleared for copyright violations.
this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Jose_Ferrer_in_Caine_Mutiny.jpg
thats obviously from a movie which is owned by someone