
Born
October 20, 1895
Died
September 19, 1969
Place of Birth
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 (1918…
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973

Journey to Shiloh
1968

Hurry Sundown
1967

Your Cheatin' Heart
1964

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961

Desire in the Dust
1960

Elmer Gantry
1960

Watusi
1959

Escort West
1959

Anna Lucasta
1958

God's Little Acre
1958

The Ten Commandments
1956

Congo Crossing
1956

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955

Moonrise
1948

Shoe Shine Jasper
1947

John Henry and the Inky-Poo
1946

Adventure
1945

A Thousand and One Nights
1945

Dark Waters
1944
Jasper's Paradise
1944

Sahara
1943

Fired Wife
1943

Cabin in the Sky
1943

The Talk of the Town
1942

The Gay Knighties
1941

Hoola Boola
1941

The Thief of Bagdad
1940

Let My People Live
1939

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939

The Green Pastures
1936

Harlem After Midnight
1934

Emperor Jones
1933

The Four Feathers
1929

The King of Kings
1927

The Ten Commandments
1923

Tarzan of the Apes
1918