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Rex Ingram
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Rex Ingram
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-10-20,Cairo, Illinois, USA
Gender
Male
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, his presence and powerful voice became an asset and he went on to memorable roles in The Green Pastures (1936), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (the 1939 MGM version), The Thief of Bagdad (1940—perhaps his best-known film appearance—as the genie), The Talk of the Town (1942), and Sahara (1943). From 1929, he also appeared on stage, making his debut on Broadway. He appeared in more than a dozen Broadway productions, with his final role coming in Kwamina in 1961. He was in the original cast of Haiti (1938), Cabin in the Sky (1940), and St. Louis Woman (1946). He is one of the few actors to have played both God (in The Green Pastures) and the Devil (in Cabin in the Sky). In 1966 he played Tee-Tot in the movie Your Cheatin' Heart. Ingram was arrested for violating the Mann Act in 1948. Pleading guilty to the charge of transporting a teenage girl to New York for immoral purposes, he was sentenced to eighteen months in jail. He served just ten months of his sentence, but the incident had a serious effect on his career for the next six years. In 1962, he became the first African-American actor to be hired for a contract role on a soap opera, when he appeared on The Brighter Day. He had other work in television in the 1950s and 1960s. Rex Ingram died of a heart attack at the age of 73. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Filmography

The Talk of the Town

7.3

The Talk of the Town
1942-08-20

The Ten Commandments

6.6

The Ten Commandments
1923-11-23

The Thief of Bagdad

7.1

The Thief of Bagdad
1940-02-19

6.2

Moonrise
1948-10-01

5.8

Dark Waters
1944-11-21

God's Little Acre

6.1

God's Little Acre
1958-09-23

5.8

Emperor Jones
1933-09-29

Journey to Shiloh

5.4

Journey to Shiloh
1968-05-10

7.2

Sahara
1943-09-22

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

0

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961-05-24

The Ten Commandments

7.759

The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

4.9

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955-02-16

Your Cheatin' Heart

6.3

Your Cheatin' Heart
1964-11-04

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

6.5

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1939-02-10

The Green Pastures

6.3

The Green Pastures
1936-08-01

Tarzan of the Apes

5.3

Tarzan of the Apes
1918-01-27

Harlem After Midnight

0

Harlem After Midnight
1934-01-01

Cabin in the Sky

6.4

Cabin in the Sky
1943-03-24

6.4

Hurry Sundown
1967-02-09

5.7

Watusi
1959-03-25

5.2

Congo Crossing
1956-07-01

6.2

Anna Lucasta
1958-11-01

The Gay Knighties

0

The Gay Knighties
1941-08-22

Jasper's Paradise

0

Jasper's Paradise
1944-10-13

4.8

Fired Wife
1943-09-04

The King of Kings

6.5

The King of Kings
1927-04-19

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli

0

The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973-01-01

The Four Feathers

4.4

The Four Feathers
1929-06-01

Let My People Live

0

Let My People Live
1939-03-10

Desire in the Dust

4

Desire in the Dust
1960-10-10

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

7

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008-05-27

Shoe Shine Jasper

0

Shoe Shine Jasper
1947-02-28

5.6

Escort West
1959-01-23

John Henry and the Inky-Poo

5.9

John Henry and the Inky-Poo
1946-09-06

A Thousand and One Nights

5.7

A Thousand and One Nights
1945-07-20

7.2

Elmer Gantry
1960-07-07

6.2

Adventure
1945-12-28

9

Hoola Boola
1941-06-27

6.6

Gunsmoke
1955-09-10

3

Climax!
1954-10-07

6

Black Saddle
1959-01-10

7

The Rifleman
1958-09-30

6.4

Branded
1965-01-24

The Bill Cosby Show

5.219

The Bill Cosby Show
1969-09-14

7

Daktari
1966-01-11

Cowboy in Africa

5

Cowboy in Africa
1967-09-11

Cowboy in Africa

5

Cowboy in Africa
1967-09-11

7

Daktari
1966-01-11

Kraft Television Theatre

7.3

Kraft Television Theatre
1947-05-07

6

Sam Benedict
1962-09-15