Rex Ingram
Acting
Born October 20, 1895 · Cairo, Illinois, USA
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 · 40 titles
The Rifleman
Climax!
Gunsmoke
Kraft Television Theatre
Branded
Sam Benedict
The Ten Commandments
Daktari
Black Saddle
The Bill Cosby Show
Cowboy in Africa
The Thief of Bagdad
Elmer Gantry
Congo Crossing
Sahara
The Ten Commandments
The King of Kings
The Talk of the Town
Hurry Sundown
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
God's Little Acre
Journey to Shiloh
A Thousand and One Nights
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Cabin in the Sky
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Tarzan of the Apes
Let My People Live
Desire in the Dust
Your Cheatin' Heart
Moonrise
Anna Lucasta
Escort West
Adventure
Hoola Boola
Emperor Jones
The Gay Knighties
Watusi
The Green Pastures
Jasper's Paradise