Rex Ingram

Actor

Born: October 20, 1895
Died: September 19, 1969 (age 73)
From: Cairo, Illinois, USA

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…

Filmography (38)

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad (2008)
Djinn (archival footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli (1973)
Self (archive footage)
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
Jacob
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Prof. Thurlow
Your Cheatin' Heart (1964)
Teetot
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1961)
Self (archive footage)
Desire in the Dust (1960)
Burt Crane
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
Watusi (1959)
Umbopa
Escort West (1959)
Nelson Walker
Anna Lucasta (1958)
Joe Lucasta
God's Little Acre (1958)
Uncle Felix
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Bit Part (uncredited)
Congo Crossing (1956)
Dr. Leopold Gorman
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
Sukulu Chieftain
Moonrise (1948)
Mose
Shoe Shine Jasper (1947)
(voice)
John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
Narrator / John Henry (voice)
Adventure (1945)
Preacher (unconfirmed)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Giant
Dark Waters (1944)
Pearson Jackson
Jasper's Paradise
Jasper's Paradise (1944)
(voice)
Sahara (1943)
Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Fired Wife (1943)
Charles
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Tilney
The Gay Knighties (1941)
Narrator (voice)
Hoola Boola (1941)
Narrator (voice)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Djinn
Let My People Live (1939)
Dr. Gordon