Rex Ingram
Born in Cairo, Illinois, USA — Oct 20 1895• Died Sep 19 1969
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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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Climax!
Petraca
The Rifleman
Thaddeus
Kraft Television Theatre
Lem
Black Saddle
Alex Booth
Gunsmoke
Juba
The Ten Commandments
Bit Part (uncredited)
Sam Benedict
Judge Larkin
Branded
Hannibal - Valet
The Bill Cosby Show
George
Daktari
Natoma
Cowboy in Africa
Nhinga
Sahara
Sgt. Maj. Tambul
Moonrise
Mose
The Talk of the Town
Tilney
Elmer Gantry
Preacher of Black Congregation (uncredited)
The Thief of Bagdad
Djinn
The Ten Commandments
Israelite Slave (uncredited)
Hurry Sundown
Prof. Thurlow
Escort West
Nelson Walker
Congo Crossing
Dr. Leopold Gorman
The King of Kings
(uncredited)
Journey to Shiloh
Jacob
Adventure
Preacher (unconfirmed)
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Sukulu Chieftain
A Thousand and One Nights
Giant
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
Self (archive footage)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Jim
Watusi
Umbopa
God's Little Acre
Uncle Felix
The Four Feathers
Fuzzy Wuzzy Native
Dark Waters
Pearson Jackson
Anna Lucasta
Joe Lucasta
Fired Wife
Charles
The Green Pastures
De Lawd / Adam / Hezdrel
Tarzan of the Apes
(uncredited)
Your Cheatin' Heart
Teetot
Desire in the Dust
Burt Crane
Cabin in the Sky
Lucius / Lucifer Jr.
Hoola Boola
Narrator (voice)
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Djinn (archival footage)
Emperor Jones
Court Crier
Let My People Live
Dr. Gordon
John Henry and the Inky-Poo
Narrator / John Henry (voice)
The Gay Knighties
Narrator (voice)
Jasper's Paradise
(voice)
Shoe Shine Jasper
(voice)
Harlem After Midnight