Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
10/20/1895
Place of Birth
Cairo, Illinois, USA
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 small roles, usually as a generic black native, such as in the Tarzan films.
With the arrival of sound,...
Known For
The Ten Commandments
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Sahara
as Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Hurry Sundown
as Prof. Thurlow
Elmer Gantry
as Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
The Talk of the Town
as Tilney
Adventure
as Preacher (unconfirmed)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Jim
Watusi
as Umbopa
Moonrise
as Mose
Fired Wife
as Charles
God's Little Acre
as Uncle Felix
The King of Kings
as (uncredited)
Journey to Shiloh
as Jacob
Emperor Jones
as Court Crier
Congo Crossing
as Dr. Leopold Gorman
The Ten Commandments
as Israelite Slave (uncredited)
The Green Pastures
as De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
A Thousand and One Nights
as Giant
Tarzan of the Apes
as (uncredited)