Rex Ingram
Birthday
1895/10/20
Day of death
1969/09/19 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Cairo, Illinois, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Rex Ingram (October 20, 1895 – September 19, 1969) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Ingram graduated from the Northwestern University medical school in 1919 and was the first African-American man to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from there. He went to Hollywood as a young man where he was literally discovered on a street corner by the casting director for Tarzan of the Apes (1918), starring Elmo Lincoln. He made his (uncredited) screen debut in that film and had many other smal...Read more
Acting
(1942) The Talk of the Town
as Tilney
(1923) The Ten Commandments
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
(1940) The Thief of Bagdad
as Djinn
(1948) Moonrise
as Mose
(1944) Dark Waters
as Pearson Jackson
(1958) God's Little Acre
as Uncle Felix
(1933) Emperor Jones
as Court Crier
(1968) Journey to Shiloh
as Jacob
(1943) Sahara
as Sgt. Maj. Tambul
(1961) The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
(1956) The Ten Commandments
as Bit Part
(1955) Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Sukulu Chieftain
(1964) Your Cheatin' Heart
as Teetot
(1939) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Jim
(1936) The Green Pastures
as De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
(1918) Tarzan of the Apes
as (uncredited)
(1934) Harlem After Midnight
as ---
(1943) Cabin in the Sky
as Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
(1967) Hurry Sundown
as Prof. Thurlow
(1959) Watusi
as Umbopa
(1956) Congo Crossing
as Dr. Leopold Gorman
(1958) Anna Lucasta
as Joe Lucasta
(1941) The Gay Knighties
as Narrator (voice)
(1944) Jasper's Paradise
as (voice)
(1943) Fired Wife
as Charles
(1927) The King of Kings
as (uncredited)
(1973) The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
(1929) The Four Feathers
as Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
(1939) Let My People Live
as Dr. Gordon
(1960) Desire in the Dust
as Burt Crane
(2008) Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Djinn (archival footage)
(1947) Shoe Shine Jasper
as (voice)
(1959) Escort West
as Nelson Walker
(1946) John Henry and the Inky-Poo
as Narrator / John Henry (voice)
(1945) A Thousand and One Nights
as Giant
(1960) Elmer Gantry
as Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
(1945) Adventure
as Preacher (unconfirmed)
(1941) Hoola Boola
as Narrator (voice)
(1955) Gunsmoke
as Juba
(1954) Climax!
as Petraca
(1959) Black Saddle
as Alex Booth
(1958) The Rifleman
as Thaddeus
(1965) Branded
as Hannibal - Valet
(1969) The Bill Cosby Show
as George
(1966) Daktari
as Chief Makubu
(1967) Cowboy in Africa
as Dr. Tom Merar
(1967) Cowboy in Africa
as Nhinga
(1966) Daktari
as Natoma
(1947) Kraft Television Theatre
as Lem
(1962) Sam Benedict
as Judge Larkin