Born in Cairo, Illinois, USA — Oct 20 1895• Died Sep 19 1969

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 T…
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Petraca

Thaddeus

Lem

Alex Booth

Juba

Bit Part (uncredited)

Judge Larkin

Hannibal - Valet

George

Natoma

Nhinga

Sgt. Maj. Tambul

Mose

Tilney

Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)

Djinn

Israelite Slave (uncredited)

Prof. Thurlow

Nelson Walker

Dr. Leopold Gorman

(uncredited)

Jacob

Preacher (unconfirmed)

Sukulu Chieftain

Giant

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Jim

Umbopa

Uncle Felix

Fuzzy Wuzzy Native

Pearson Jackson

Joe Lucasta

Charles

De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel

(uncredited)

Teetot

Burt Crane

Lucius / Lucifer Jr.

Narrator (voice)
Djinn (archival footage)

Court Crier

Dr. Gordon

Narrator / John Henry (voice)

Narrator (voice)
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