Canterbury School is an interfaith, college preparatory, coeducational boarding and day independent school for students in grades 9-12 and post-graduate . It is located in New Milford, Connecticut , United States.
31-519: Canterbury School may refer to: Canterbury School (Connecticut) , a private, co-educational college preparatory lay-Catholic boarding school in New Milford, Connecticut Canterbury High School (Accokeek, Maryland) , was a private, Episcopal, co-educational college preparatory school in Accokeek, Maryland Canterbury School (Fort Myers, Florida) ,
62-555: A Dance (1945), and A Thousand and One Nights (1945). Some were "B" movies but others ( Thousand and One Nights ) were more prestigious. Ferrer directed The Girl of the Limberlost (1945), starring Ruth Nelson . Eventually, he returned to Broadway, where he starred in Strange Fruit (1945–46), a play based on the novel by Lillian Smith . It was directed by José Ferrer (no relation). He then directed José Ferrer in
93-586: A Minor (1975), The Black Corsair (1976) and Nightmare City (1980). Ferrer was born in Elberon, New Jersey , of Spanish and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (December 3, 1857 – February 23, 1920), was born in Havana , Cuba , of Spanish ancestry. José was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City . He was 59 years old at
124-483: A private, Classical Christian school in Los Altos, California See also [ edit ] Canterbury High School (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
155-1087: A private, co-educational college preparatory day school in Fort Myers, Florida Canterbury School (St. Petersburg, Florida) , a private, co-educational college preparatory day school in St Petersburg, Florida Canterbury High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana) , a private, co-educational college preparatory day school in Fort Wayne, Indiana Canterbury School (Gran Canaria) , a private, profit-making co-educational bilingual day school in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Canterbury School (Greensboro, North Carolina) , an independent PreK-8 Episcopal day school in Greensboro, North Carolina Canterbury School (Seventh century school founded by Theodore of Canterbury) Canterbury Christian School ,
186-540: A revival of Kind Lady (1940) and Cue for Passion (1940). Ferrer was contracted to Columbia Pictures as a director, along with several other "potentials" who began as dialogue directors: Fred Sears , William Castle , Henry Levin and Robert Gordon . Among the films he worked on were Louisiana Hayride (1944), They Live in Fear (1944), Sergeant Mike (1944), Together Again (1944), Meet Miss Bobby Socks (1944), Let's Go Steady (1944), Ten Cents
217-475: A small Vermont newspaper and wrote the children's book Tito's Hats (Garden City Publishing, 1940). Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and in 1937 won the Theatre Intime award for best new play by a Princeton undergraduate; the play was called Awhile to Work and co-starred another college student, Frances Pilchard, who would become Ferrer's first wife later the same year. At 21, he
248-573: A supporting role in Sex and the Single Girl (1964). From 1981 to 1984, he appeared opposite Jane Wyman as Angela Channing's attorney (and briefly her husband), Phillip Erikson , on Falcon Crest (as well as directing several episodes). He played a blackmailing reporter in the Columbo episode "Requiem for a Fallen Star", starring Anne Baxter . He appeared opposite Cyd Charisse in an episode of
279-802: Is named for alumnus Mel Ferrer '34. Chaplain’s Residence is the oldest building on campus and has had various uses, including acting as Canterbury’s first chapel. Outdoor facilities include 8 tennis courts, Hamilton Stadium (a multipurpose turf field and track), Sheehy Family Field (a multipurpose turf field), other multipurpose grass playing fields, and baseball and softball diamonds with dugouts. Canterbury Offers 19 Varsity Teams in Baseball, Basketball, Field Hockey, Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Squash, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Tennis, Volleyball, and Wrestling. All students participate in sports and Canterbury fields Junior Varsity, Thirds and Fourth teams in support of its varsity sports. The school competes in
310-856: The New England Preparatory School Athletic Council (NEPSAC). Mel Ferrer Melchor Gastón Ferrer (August 25, 1917 – June 2, 2008) was an American actor and filmmaker. He achieved prominence on Broadway before scoring notable film hits with Scaramouche , Lili , and Knights of the Round Table . He starred opposite his wife, actress Audrey Hepburn , in War and Peace and produced her film Wait Until Dark . He also acted extensively in European films and appeared in several cult hits , including The Antichrist (1974), The Suspicious Death of
341-644: The 1946 stage production of Cyrano de Bergerac . He worked as an assistant on The Fugitive (1947), directed by John Ford in Mexico. Along with Gregory Peck , Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Cotten , he founded the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego . Ferrer made his screen acting debut with a starring role in Lost Boundaries (1949), playing a black person who passes for white . The film
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#1732772371056372-548: The David C. Copley ’70 Library and Donovan Center for Learning are located; Nelson Hume Hall, which includes Maguire Auditorium; and Old Schoolhouse. Chapel of Our Lady was built in 1928 and expanded in 1959. It can seat 300. Mass is celebrated every Sunday during the school year in the Chapel at 11:30 AM. The bottom floor of the chapel contains a classroom. Its stained glass windows have been recently restored. The chapel's carillon
403-859: The Italian adventure film Charge of the Black Lancers (1962). He was one of several stars in The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962) and The Longest Day (1962). He had a cameo in his wife's Paris When It Sizzles (1964) and was Marcus Aurelius Cleander in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). Ferrer then turned to television, doing some directing for the series The Farmer's Daughter (1963–66) starring Inger Stevens , William Windom , and Cathleen Nesbitt . Ferrer had
434-825: The U.S., he was in Hi-Riders (1978), The Norseman (1978), Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979), and The Fifth Floor (1979). In 1979, he portrayed Dr. Brogli in an episode of Return of the Saint . In Europe, he was in The Visitor (1979), Island of the Fishmen (1980), Nightmare City (1980), The Great Alligator River (1980) and Eaten Alive! (1980). He went to Germany for Lili Marleen (1981). He worked in two of Spanish actress Marisol 's film vehicles: Cabriola and La chica del molino rojo , being
465-500: The aspiration of two men: Henry O. Havemeyer, scion of a wealthy family which made its fortune in sugar refining, and Nelson Hume, a Catholic schoolmaster. They intended to establish a Roman Catholic school where young men could be guided in their religion and be prepared to attend Ivy League universities. The school was established in New Milford, Connecticut , on the location of the former Ingleside School for Girls. Hume became
496-550: The director of the first and acting in the second. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Mel Ferrer has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6268 Hollywood Blvd. Ferrer married five times, to four women, with whom he had six children. His wives were: Before his marriage to Elizabeth Soukhotine in 1971, Ferrer had a relationship with 29-year-old interior designer Tessa Kennedy . A resident of Carpinteria, California , Ferrer died of heart failure at
527-683: The first headmaster of the school. From its start with 16 enrolled students, Nelson Hume guided the school through two world wars and the great depression until his death in 1948. He was succeeded as headmaster by Walter Sheehan, John Reydel in 1973, Roderick Clarke in 1978, Thomas Sheehy in 1990, and Rachel E. Stone in 2016. Canterbury became co-educational in the fall of 1971. The School now enrolls around 320 boarding and day students on its campus in New Milford. Canterbury School celebrated its centennial in 2015. Canterbury School has seven residence halls that provide housing for about 250 students. Each residence hall contains faculty apartments that range from
558-417: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canterbury_School&oldid=1058387197 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Canterbury School (Connecticut) Canterbury was founded in 1915 on
589-573: The long-running Angela Lansbury series, Murder She Wrote , and appeared in two television miniseries, Peter the Great (1986) and Dream West (1986). Later credits include Eye of the Widow (1991) and Catherine the Great (1995). Ferrer produced and starred in the biopic El Greco (1966), playing the famous painter . He also produced Wait Until Dark (1967), starring his wife, another big hit. He and Hepburn divorced in 1968. Ferrer
620-721: The size of town houses to smaller one-bedroom suites. Canterbury also has built single family homes on campus, providing housing for some faculty, such as the Headmaster’s House, located on the corner of Aspetuck Avenue and Elkington Farm Road. There are various academic buildings with classrooms and study spaces on campus, including the Steers Center, which houses the Coleman Digital Media Lab, Innovation & Design Lab, and D’Amour Center for Faith, Service & Justice; Robert M. Steele ’72 Hall, where
651-544: The time of Mel's birth and died three years later. Mel Ferrer's US-born mother, Mary Matilda Irene (née O'Donohue; January 28, 1878 – February 19, 1967), was a daughter of coffee broker Joseph J. O'Donohue, New York's City Commissioner of Parks, a founder of the Coffee Exchange, and a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry. An ardent opponent of Prohibition , Irene Ferrer (as she was known)
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#1732772371056682-478: The villain in Scaramouche (1952). The film, particularly notable for a long, climactic sword fight between Ferrer and Stewart Granger , was a huge hit. The studio kept him on for Lili (1953) as the title character (played by Leslie Caron )'s love interest. It was another big success; Ferrer and Caron also got a hit single out of it, "Hi-Lili-Hi-Lo". Saadia (1953), which Ferrer made with Cornel Wilde ,
713-674: Was a big flop. He made two films for 20th Century Fox : an all-star adaptation of The Sun Also Rises (1957) and Fräulein (1958), a war story with Dana Wynter . At MGM, he played one of the last three people on Earth in The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959), another flop. Ferrer went to Italy to star in Roger Vadim 's vampire movie Blood and Roses (1960). After an English horror film, The Hands of Orlac (1960), he starred in
744-602: Was a flop, but Knights of the Round Table (1954), in which Ferrer played King Arthur, was another hit. Ferrer met actress Audrey Hepburn at a party; she wanted to do a play together. They appeared in Ondine (1954) on Broadway, and married in Switzerland in September 1954. Ferrer went to Italy to make Proibito (1954) and to England for Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955), directed by Powell and Pressburger . Neither film
775-784: Was a surgeon; he died at 70 from complications of abdominal surgery. Their younger sister, Teresa Ferrer (March 30, 1919 – February 12, 2002), was the religion editor of The New York Herald Tribune and an education editor for Newsweek . She died at 82 from a thoracic aneurysm. Ferrer was privately educated at the Bovée School in New York (where one of his classmates was the future author Louis Auchincloss ) and Canterbury Prep School in Connecticut. He attended Princeton University until his sophomore year, when he dropped out to devote more time to acting. He worked as an editor of
806-522: Was appearing on the Broadway stage as a chorus dancer, making his debut there as an actor two years later. He appeared as a chorus dancer in two unsuccessful musicals, Cole Porter 's You Never Know and Everywhere I Roam . After a bout with polio , Ferrer worked as a disc jockey in Texas and Arkansas and moved to Mexico to work on the novel Tito's Hat (published 1940). His first acting roles were in
837-816: Was controversial but much acclaimed. Ferrer had a supporting role in Born to Be Bad (1950) at RKO , directed by Nicholas Ray . At that studio, he directed Claudette Colbert in The Secret Fury (1950) and directed or co-directed Vendetta (1950), The Racket (1951), and Macao (1952). He starred as a bullfighter in The Brave Bulls (1951) for Robert Rossen at Columbia. Ferrer fought with Arthur Kennedy over Marlene Dietrich in Rancho Notorious (1952), directed by Fritz Lang at RKO. Ferrer went to MGM, replacing Fernando Lamas as
868-518: Was granted permission by Pope Pius XI to install a private chapel in her New York City apartment. Ferrer had three siblings. His elder sister, Dr. María Irené Ferrer (July 30, 1915 – November 12, 2004), was a cardiologist and educator who helped refine the cardiac catheter and electrocardiogram . She died in 2004 in Manhattan at 89 of pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Their brother, Dr. Jose M. Ferrer (November 23, 1912 – December 24, 1982),
899-681: Was mostly a jobbing actor in the 1970s, working much in Italy. Among his credits were A Time for Loving (1972); The Antichrist (1974) in Italy; Brannigan (1974), a crime drama set in London that starred John Wayne ; Silent Action (1975) and The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975), both for Sergio Martino ; The Net (1975), shot in Germany; The Black Corsair (1976), an Italian swashbuckler; Gangbuster (1977) in Italy; The Pyjama Girl Case (1977); Seagulls Fly Low (1977). In
930-634: Was named in 1934 as the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws. Mel's parents married on October 17, 1910, in New York. His mother's family, the O'Donohues, were prominent Roman Catholics . One of his aunts, Marie Louise O'Donohue, was named a papal countess , while another aunt, Teresa Riley O'Donohue, a leading figure in American Roman Catholic charities and welfare organizations,
961-493: Was widely seen, but War and Peace (1956) was a big success; Ferrer played Prince Andrei, co-starring with then-wife Audrey Hepburn. In France, he co-starred with Ingrid Bergman in Elena and Her Men (1956), directed by Jean Renoir . Ferrer and Hepburn made Mayerling (1957) for American television; it was released theatrically in some countries. Ferrer returned to MGM to make The Vintage (1957) with Pier Angeli , which