Personal Info
Known Credits
38
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1895-10-20 (130 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Cairo, Illinois, USA
Also Known For
Rex Ingram
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 ...
Known For
Acting
2008 --
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
| Djinn (archival footage)
1973 --
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
| Self (archive footage)
1968 --
Journey to Shiloh
| Jacob
1967 --
Hurry Sundown
| Prof. Thurlow
1964 --
Your Cheatin' Heart
| Teetot
1961 --
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
| Self (archive footage)
1960 --
Desire in the Dust
| Burt Crane
1960 --
Elmer Gantry
| Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
1959 --
Watusi
| Umbopa
1959 --
Escort West
| Nelson Walker
1958 --
Anna Lucasta
| Joe Lucasta
1958 --
God's Little Acre
| Uncle Felix
1956 --
The Ten Commandments
| Bit Part
1956 --
Congo Crossing
| Dr. Leopold Gorman
1955 --
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
| Sukulu Chieftain
1948 --
Moonrise
| Mose
1947 --
Shoe Shine Jasper
| (voice)
1946 --
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
| Narrator / John Henry (voice)
1945 --
Adventure
| Preacher (unconfirmed)
1945 --
A Thousand and One Nights
| Giant
1944 --
Dark Waters
| Pearson Jackson
1944 --
Jasper's Paradise
| (voice)
1943 --
Sahara
| Sgt. Maj. Tambul
1943 --
Fired Wife
| Charles
1943 --
Cabin in the Sky
| Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
1942 --
The Talk of the Town
| Tilney
1941 --
The Gay Knighties
| Narrator (voice)
1941 --
Hoola Boola
| Narrator (voice)
1940 --
The Thief of Bagdad
| Djinn
1939 --
Let My People Live
| Dr. Gordon
1939 --
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| Jim
1936 --
The Green Pastures
| De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
1934 --
Harlem After Midnight
|
1933 --
The Emperor Jones
| Court Crier
1929 --
The Four Feathers
| Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
1927 --
The King of Kings
| (uncredited)
1923 --
The Ten Commandments
| Israelite Slave (uncredited)
1918 --
Tarzan of the Apes
| (uncredited)